Republican National Committee files Federal Election Commission complaint over Twitter ban on Hunter Biden articles - CNBC

The Republican National Committee on Friday filed a federal elections complaint over Twitter's decision to ban sharing on its platform recent news articles about Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.

The RNC claims that Twitter's blocking of The New York Post articles amounts to an "illegal corporate in-kind political contribution" to the Democrat Joe Biden's presidential campaign, which is seeking to unseat President Donald Trump, the Republican incumbent.

A computer hard drive said to be owned by Hunter Biden was used as source material by the New York Post for the articles subject to Twitter's ban.

But the RNC said in its Federal Elections Commission Complaint that Twitter is "engaged in arguably the most brazen and unprecedented act of media suppression in this country's history, and it is doing so for the clear purpose of supporting the Biden campaign.".

The complaint notes that Twitter has "also suspended, or locked, the accounts of users who shared the articles or details about the articles, including the Trump campaign (@TeamTrump), White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany), Republicans on the U.S.

Twitter's "suppression of the New York Post articles provides a thing of value to the Biden campaign," the RNC argued in its complaint.

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement, "Twitter's decision to censor news articles that harm Joe Biden's candidacy is so transparently biased it would make even the governments of China or North Korea blush.".

But the ban on the Hunter Biden articles remains intact because Twitter said it will still apply rules "to the posting of or linking to hacked materials, such as our rules against posting private information, synthetic and manipulated media, and non-consensual nudity.".