Section 230 and cries of anti-conservative bias online are in the news again. In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it’s déjà vu all over again. Only this time, things are a little different.
Earlier this week, Twitter and Facebook took actions that prevented users from sharing a New York Post article containing allegations about Hunter Biden that are potentially damaging to the elder Biden’s presidential campaign. For its part, Facebook limited the story’s exposure on users’ News Feeds, subject to a “fact check.” Twitter, meanwhile, labeled links to the story as “potentially unsafe,” and then subsequently blocked users from sharing it altogether. Twitter even went as far as to lock the accounts of users who had previously shared the story, including those of the Trump campaign, the White House press secretary, and even some journalists.
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