Twitter said it was limiting the article's spread due to questions about"the origins of the materials" included in the article.The New York Post said the computer had been left by Hunter Biden at a Delaware computer repair shop in April 2019.
While the Biden campaign did not deny the existence of the computer or validity of the emails on it, Mr Giuliani has a record of producing disinformation and making bogus claims about both Bidens and Ukraine. Republican Senator Josh Hawley, in a letter to Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, said the"seemingly selective" blocking"suggests partiality on the part of Facebook."
"Twitter's censorship of this story is quite hypocritical, given its willingness to allow users to share less-well-sourced reporting critical of other candidates," Republican Senator Ted Cruz said in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.