Published on Mon, 10/19/2020 - 4:26pm
As you might expect in the final weeks of an election, there seems to be some confusion about what is news, what is manipulation and what is censorship. Let me see if I can help sort things out.
First, there has been a lot of speculation about a much-discussed New York Post story alleging, without much evidence, that Joe Biden’s son Hunter may have arranged for a meeting between his father, then the vice president, and a Ukrainian businessman.
And then there is some confusion about what social media companies owe their audiences when it comes to distributing these stories.