Society
October 16, 2020
Heng Cha, the son of the US Democratic presidential candidate Biden, was exclusively reported by the New York Post, saying that he used family relationships while serving as a director of Ukraine Natural Gas Company, and arranged for the company's senior executives to meet the father of the vice president.Conflicts.The Biden campaign team has denied the allegations.At the same time, the two major social media facebooks and Twitter in the United States restricted the news on the platform on the grounds that the news was not confirmed, which caused the social media giants to use monopoly advantages to review the controversy of news and intervene in elections.
In the 2014 Obama administration, Biden was responsible for dealing with the Ukrainian crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Crimea.After the steplier, Biden stated publicly that he refused to issue assistance to the Ukrainian government to expel its chief prosecutor; the chief prosecutor tried to investigate British's corruption charges.Therefore, if the report of the New York Post is true, Biden will be suspected of using its powers to map the family.The US President Trump, who was re -elected, was at the end of 2019 because he was accused of leaving the US military assistance to Ukraine's military assistance to investigate the Ukrainian government to investigate Hunter's local business activities.The case was rejected by the Senate controlled by the Republican Party.
On the occasion of less than three weeks before the voting date, the atmosphere of the US presidential election became more and more fierce due to the Hunter case.Some analysts believe that most voters may have decided to support the target at this time, so the continued leading Biden in the media polls may not be too affected by the Hente case.However, the cold treatment of the exclusive news of the New York Post's exclusive news, especially the social media giant facebook and Twitter, to openly restrict the spread of Hunter News, but it may be extraordinary.
The New York Post is a rumor that he uses his father's vice presidential status as a vice president of his father to receive a rumor to receive a monthly board fee of $ 50,000 a month.However, the questioners pointed out that there is doubts about the process of email exposure, and it cannot be ruled out that it is behind the scenes of foreign intelligence agencies, in an attempt to affect the presidential election.In this regard, the Editorial Department of the New York Post stated that what should be done by peers should be to verify the authenticity of its reports, rather than a blind eye to such serious allegations, and did not comply with the duties of discovering the truth that the media should bear.
What is fueling the incident is that the two major social media giants, Facebook and Twitter, publicly stated that the exclusive news of the New York Post was reposted and spread on its platform because the source of the news was unknown.However, critics pointed out that, according to this standard, the New York Times reported the news of Trump's tax form recently without disclosing the source, but it continued to spread widely on the two platforms.Facebooks and Twitter are thus being criticized and used to use a monopoly position, reviewing the news and hurting the freedom of speech, depriving voters to know the right to know and threatening American democracy.
Republican senators have said that they want to cancel the legal power of social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter.According to the existing laws of the United States, social media companies are regarded as a neutral information platform, so they are exempted from the responsibility of speaking by traditional media companies. The public may not sue these companies due to the false information of the social media platform.However, the performance of Facebook and Twitter in the Hunter case, including restricting news dissemination, and even on the grounds of spreading the news, blocking the personal personal account of the White House news officer has violated the role of as a neutral platform.Edit rights, so critics pointed out that it is necessary to allow social media companies to assume corresponding legal responsibilities.
However, opponents believe that if the exemption of social media companies is canceled, they may cause them to intensify review news and news to show responsibility.At the moment when more and more people rely on platforms to obtain news, this will further affect the public's right to know; at the stage of the election, it will definitely not be conducive to voters to make full judgments.From the development observation of the outbreak of the Hunter case to the present, the case itself may not be easy to evaluate the level of election, but social media companies have become the target of public criticism, but they are unexpectedly unexpected, and it cannot be ruled out that it will have an impact on the election.
The severity of American public opinion tears is also more prominent because of the Hunter case.Although Trump used this case to chase the poor, the House of Representatives controlled by the Democratic Party was also unwilling to show weakness. Speaker Perossi said that he would quote the amendment to Article 25 of the Constitution and investigate whether the president is unusual and should be replaced.In short, a civilized election that should originally reflects the US public opinion is becoming a naked and bargain power struggle.The democratic crisis in the United States may be difficult to relieve in the short term.
