Twitter, Facebook face blowback after stopping circulation of NY Post story

Republicans lash out at Twitter and Facebook over Hunter Biden article

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey APOLOGIZES after Trump threatened to remove Facebook and Twitter protections after they blocked story about Biden meeting son Hunter's Ukraine partners - but White House spokeswoman's account is locked for sharing it

Twitter, Facebook face blowback after stopping circulation of NY Post story

Both social media platforms are deprecating or outright blocking the sharing of a link to a story the New York Post published this morning about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Although Twitter and Facebook have both acted in the past to deplatform fringe actors, today's action marks one of the extremely rare times either has taken action against a story from a relatively mainstream outlet.