“Deciding who gets to say what online is a complex business in the best of times, and the 2020 election is showing social media platforms just how messy it can get. Balancing concerns over misinformation, hacking and foreign meddling against free-speech principles is already hard enough. Tackling it in real time in the middle of a political knife fight is almost certainly going to go awry. Fast action Wednesday by Facebook and Twitter to limit the reach of a questionably sourced New York Post story about Hunter Biden showed the world what aggressive misinformation policing on social media platforms looks like — and much of the world didn’t like what it saw.”
“On the right, pundits cried ‘censorship’ while lawmakers demanded new in-person testimony from CEOs to defend their choices. On the left, observers worried about the ‘Streisand effect’ — the idea that trying to suppress or remove online information only draws attention to it” – Axios.