Everyone in politics and media has been in an uproar over a decision Wednesday by Facebook and Twitter to suppress a New York Post story that purported to reveal emails from Joe Biden’s son Hunter that cast the former Vice President in a negative light. The emails purport to show an attempt by Hunter Biden to connect a Ukrainian executive to his father. Setting aside the contents of the news story, which is not the subject of this post, the reaction to it by both Facebook and Twitter has gone on to become something of a bigger story than the story itself.
