Tech reporter for axios. Thanks for joining us. We appreciate your time. Guest thank you. Host one of the interesting aspect is the last couple of stories concerning the New York Post, and the responses from certain platforms. Remind viewers what happened with the story end with the platforms. Post the new york put a story with allegations about joe bidens son hunter and supposedly was that joe biden did for hunter in ukraine. The story was obtained because of a laptop that they obtained emails in, provided by rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer. Twitter and facebook worked to limit the distribution of this article on their platforms because the materials they have, which had to do with hacked materials, obtained by hacking. It was a swift backlash from many conservatives on the hill and in the administration. Twitter ended up backtracking and allowing the post to be shared after all after some really strong backlash. It was a prime example of how these companies attempt to
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