Hawley wants Twitter, Facebook to come before Senate following censorship of Hunter Biden report

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden drew criticism from the Trump campaign for inviting pop star Lady Gaga to his rally in Pittsburgh on Monday night despite her past stance against fracking. In a scathing press release, the Trump campaign noted that Lady Gaga had shared a link to the group “Artists against Fracking” on her Facebook page in 2012.

coronavirus pandemic through April 5.The decision announced Thursday leaves only the possibility of performances at the very tail end of the hall’s 2020-21 season.Carnegie has been closed since March 12 and last June has canceled performances through Jan.

Just a day after encouraging followers to "vote for Trump" in light of Joe Biden's proposed tax policy, 50 Cent is expanding on his dislike of the plan. On Monday, the 45-year-old hip-hop star shared an image on Instagram depicting a news broadcast that stated New York would be taxed at a rate of 58% and New York City at 62% under Biden's policy.

report in the New York Times. The report says the story was written primarily by Bruce Golding, who didn’t want his byline on the piece because of “credibility” concerns.Not only that, according to the report, but one of the reporters whose name did appear on the story about the Democratic nominee’s son only learned she’d been credited after publication.

Sacha Baron Cohen has revealed how he managed to sneak into a Mike Pence speech disguised as Donald Trump.Earlier this year, the actor – dressed in full costume as the US president – attended a Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hall, Maryland to film a scene for his forthcoming Borat sequel.Speaking to the New York Times, Baron Cohen recalled the difficulties he encountered when attempting to gain admission to the event.He said that after realising that security was there to

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorExhibitors in New York State are speed dialing former staffers and bookers after a surprise weekend announcement by Gov.

The tweets are running the asylum. Twitter’s senior executives have a long history of anti-Trump hatred, a Post review of dozens of accounts of top employees found.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter is keeping itself in front of the political firing line by inconsistently applying policy to a series of unconfirmed reports by the New York Post about Joe Biden’s son Hunter — moves Republicans have slammed as censorship and election interference.The social network initially banned the Post’s story Wednesday about Hunter Biden’s alleged attempts to influence his father, Joe Biden, to try to shut down a probe into Ukrainian energy company Burisma and

North Carolina Republican Rep.Ted Budd introduced a bill Friday morning limiting the Section 230 immunity of Big Tech, after conservatives blasted social media giants for censoring a New York Post article about the Biden family’s alleged ties to Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.  The bill, which mirrors Missouri Republican Josh Hawley’s in the Senate, would allow Americans to file lawsuits against Big Tech companies who breach good faith user agreements by censoring political speech or suppressing

Twitter said late Thursday it was changing its policy on hacked content after an outcry about its handling of an unverified political story that prompted cries of censorship from the right. The social media company will no longer remove hacked material unless it’s directly shared by hackers or those working with them, the company’s head of legal, policy, trust and safety, Vijaya Gadde, said in a Twitter thread.

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NEW YORK -- Sen. Josh Hawley is working on a book about one of the Missouri Republican's ongoing targets.Simon & Schuster announced Friday that Hawley's “The Tyranny of Big Tech” will be released June 21.

I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.Read my full statement below. pic.twitter.com/LhUz5XMdSC— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) October 15, 2020Pai’s decision comes a day after Twitter blocked users from sharing a “potentially harmful” New York Post report on Hunter Biden, son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Ted Johnson The chairman of the FCC issued a statement on Thursday saying that he plans to move forward with efforts to clarify Section 230, the provision of a 1996 law that gives immunity to internet companies like Facebook and Twitter over the way that they moderate content.Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement as President Donald Trump and his allies have blasted Twitter and Facebook for steps they have taken to restrict the sharing of a New York Post story on Hunter Biden.

President Trump told a crowd in Iowa Wednesday that alleged emails from Hunter Biden were a "smoking gun" showing that former Vice President Joe Biden "blatantly" lied about his involvement with his son's business dealings in Ukraine. "We've just learned through explosive documents published by a very fine newspaper, the New York Post, that Joe Biden has been blatantly lying about his involvement in his son's corrupt business dealings.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said that he may close early voting locations in areas of Brooklyn and Queens that are currently under coronavirus lockdown restrictions imposed last week by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the New York Post reported.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook and Twitter put measures in place Wednesday to limit distribution of a New York Post story based on emails — which the paper claimed were supplied by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani — purportedly revealing evidence of influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter.According to the Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his father, then VP in the Obama administration, to a top exec at Ukrainian energy company Burisma after Hunter joined the company’s

Also Read: Debate Moderator Steve Scully Says His Twitter Account Was Hacked Amid 'Never Trumper' ClaimsEarlier on Wednesday, the Post shared a trove of emails it said belonged to the younger Biden.