Facebook reduces visibility on Hunter Biden story before fact-checking

A Facebook official announced that the social media site will reduce the distribution of a New York Post story alleging Hunter Biden had set up a meeting between a senior official at Burisma Holdings and his father, former vice president Joe Biden.

"While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners," Andy Stone, Facebook's policy communications director, said in a tweet. "In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution...