On 14 October 2020 Twitter barred users from posting links to the Post’s story, citing its hacked-materials policy, and locked the Post’s own account. Facebook said it was reducing the story’s distribution until fact-checkers reviewed it. [1][2]
At a February 2023 House hearing, Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth and other ex-executives acknowledged the decision was a mistake while defending the reasoning they had at the time. In August 2024 Mark Zuckerberg wrote to the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI had warned Facebook about a potential Russian disinformation operation involving the Bidens, that “it’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation,” and that “in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story.” [1][2]
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