US Capitol BuildingWASHINGTON, Mar 31Republicans from the US House of Representatives launched an investigation into the social networks Facebook * and Twitter, which are suspected of unfair censorship of news related to the business activities of Hunter Biden, the son of the incumbent US President Joe Biden. Post detailing how Hunter Biden used the position and influence of his father, now President Joe Biden, for personal gain…Now that even the New York Times has confirmed the accuracy of this material, we are honest public discourse,» the congressmen wrote in a letter to Facebook* CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Ukrainian trace. Biden's son gave him a lot of trouble again. A similar letter was sent to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. The authors of the letter believe that Facebook*'s decision to censor the article about Biden Jr. because of alleged concerns about its authenticity could have significant consequences for the 2020 presidential election. In October In 2020, the New York Post published a series of materials based on correspondence allegedly found on Hunter Biden's laptop, which was found in a Delaware repair shop. The owner of the workshop made a copy of his hard drive, which was given to Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and personal lawyer of then US President Donald Trump. Trump ridiculed the theory that Hunter Biden's computer was hacked from Russia. It was reported that the laptop was later seized by the FBI. The Daily Mail wrote that the photographs found on the laptop may indicate the involvement of Biden Jr. in criminal activities in the field of drug trafficking and prostitution. Hunter Biden worked as an adviser to the leadership of the Ukrainian company Burisma, receiving up to 50 thousand dollars a month for this. Opponents of Joe Biden are sure that his son used his father for lobbying work. In addition, they suspect Biden Sr. of putting pressure on the Ukrainian authorities to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who led the investigation against Burisma. Joe Biden denies all of this. Democrats called the publication a Kremlin campaign. Russia denies any involvement.*Meta activities (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist
