When the smoking gun of the [[Biden-Burisma]] scandal broke in ''[[The New York Post]]'', Facebook dispatched a life-long [[Democratic Party]] operative who now works for Facebook — Andy Stone, previously a communications operative for [[far-left]] Democratic Sen. [[Barbara Boxer]] and the [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]] (DCCC), among other D.C. Democratic jobs — to announce that Facebook was “reducing [the article’s] distribution on our platform”: in other words, tinkering with its own [[algorithm]]s to suppress the ability of users to discuss or share the ''New York Post'' article.
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====October surprise====
====October surprise====
:{{See also|Fake news in the 2020 presidential election}}
:{{See also|Fake news in the 2020 presidential election}}