What’s happening: Those circuit breakers tripped after the New York Post story reported allegations about Joe Biden’s son, based on what the paper said were emails provided to it Sunday by Rudy Giuliani.
- Twitter cited its “Hacked Material Policy,” which says Twitter doesn’t “permit the use of our services to directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in physical harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.”
- A Facebook spokesperson said of the N.Y. Post story: “[W]e are reducing its distribution on our platform.”
The Biden campaign said in a statement: “The New York Post never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this story. They certainly never raised that Rudy Giuliani — whose discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported — claimed to have such materials.”