Rewind: Ted Cruz on Big Tech and the New York Post's Hunter Biden story

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🗓️ 24 December 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In October, Dan spoke with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) about Big Tech censorship, election disinformation, and why he plans to subpoena Jack Dorsey, but not Mark Zuckerberg. We revisit that conversation, as right-wing criticisms of big tech have only gotten louder.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dan Pramak and welcome to Axios Recap.
0:05.0	We want to end the year by replaying not just some of our favorite interviews from 2020,
0:10.0	but ones that still have residents here in late December.
0:13.0	So today we're sharing with you our October 15th conversation with Senator Ted Cruz,
0:18.0	who was on to discuss big tech and censorship in the context of what was then
0:22.1	a new New York Post bombshell report about Hunter Biden's business dealings. Since then,
0:28.1	the issue has only heated up, both in terms of Hunter Biden, who we've now learned as
0:32.3	under federal investigation for his taxes, and also right-wing criticisms of big tech.
0:40.6	Today's Thursday, October 15th.
0:43.4	If you've been on Twitter or Facebook today, you might have seen discussion of a New York
0:47.8	Post story about Joe Biden's son Hunter and what the former vice president did or didn't know
0:53.3	about Hunter's business dealings.
0:55.3	But you didn't actually see a link to that story, at least on Twitter.
0:59.3	In fact, if you shared it, you were temporarily blocked.
1:02.8	On Facebook, you could have posted about it, but the reach of that post was limited.
1:07.9	Why?
1:08.6	Well, mostly because the New York Post story is based on emails allegedly
1:12.8	obtained and distributed by someone with access to Hunter Biden's laptop, and that could amount to an
1:19.1	illegal hack. Moreover, there is some evidence that at least one or more of the alleged emails
1:24.8	may have been manipulated based on timestamp and other metadata.
1:29.7	Four things to know.
1:30.7	First, this is the first time that these platforms have ever blocked distribution of a story by a major media outlet,
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