{"id":31980,"date":"2020-10-14T17:55:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31980"},"modified":"2020-10-14T17:55:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:55:58","slug":"facebook-admits-to-shadowbanning-new-york-post-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=31980","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Admits to Shadowbanning New York Post Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook\u2019s Democratic comms chief admits to SHADOWBANNING NYPost story on Hunter Biden emails<\/h1>\n

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A former Democratic Party staffer now working for Facebook has admitted to shadowbanning a viral story allegedly exposing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s Ukrainian ties and has encouraged \u201cfact-checkers\u201d to shred it.<\/p>\n

As a New York Post story claiming Biden scion Hunter had introduced his father to a Ukrainian energy executive less than a year before the then-Vice-President pressured Kiev into firing the country\u2019s top prosecutor swept across social media on Wednesday morning, Facebook communications exec Andy Stone\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0the social media behemoth was \u201creducing [the story\u2019s] distribution on our platform.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

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The reduced distribution was only a temporary measure until \u201cFacebook\u2019s third-party fact checking partners<\/em>\u201d could stamp their seal of (dis)approval on the story, Stone clarified in a\u00a0later tweet<\/a>, apparently confirming he\u2019d preemptively flagged the story as disinformation. Stone openly touts his history with the Democratic Party in his Twitter profile, which shows he worked with the House Majority Political Action Committee, California Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and California Democrat Rep. Jerry McNerney.<\/p>\n

Stone’s announcement caught the eye of Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr.<\/p>\n

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