Comment by fareesh

Wikipedia deleted the entry for a company called Rosemont Seneca Partners which was the financial firm of the younger son of Joe Biden, i.e. Hunter Biden.

The stated reasoning behind the deletion was that it is not a notable company.

This company is discussed extensively in the emails recovered from the laptop of Hunter Biden. News of these emails was censored by Twitter and Facebook just before the 2020 election. It is widely believed by millions (including the new owner of Twitter) that this was a partisan move. Jack Dorsey has remarked that this was a mistake that he rectified as soon as he came to learn of it, which was several weeks after the censorship.

At the time of the news story, Facebook announced that they were "reducing the spread" of this story. The move was announced by Andy Stone, who is and was the erstwhile head of communications at Meta, and also by total coincidence, was previously a staff member for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, and "House Majority PAC", a political action group whose stated mission is to ensure the majority of the Democratic Party in the US House of Representatives.

One of the people in the emails was Tony Bobulinski - a former US Navy Seal Lieutenant. He clarified the context in one of the emails which referenced a "10%" cut for the "big guy". This was a reference to current President Joe Biden, per Bobulinski.

Over a year after the election, the Washington Post confirmed the authenticity of the emails from the laptop. Facebook's aforementioned Andy Stone announced at the time that stories about the contents of the email were "eligible for checking by third party fact-checkers" and that the spread of the story would be reduced until they returned a verdict. Stone has announced no verdict thus far.

Many are quick to point to the Streisand effect when discussing this topic, which while relevant, does not address the apparent coordinated nature of the censorship behind this story, wherein the same incorrect conclusion was drawn by multiple parties on the basis of no evidence.

This is the type of thing we see happening in third world countries quite often, where the government and the ruling party have an iron grip over the media. Just this week we have seen governments cut off internet access entirely as an effort to curb the spread of disinformation. To see first world countries engaging in similar behavior leaves one with little hope for the future of democratic rule.