[Old School Hound]

We can all debate issues, whether it be tax reform,  immigration, or abortion. There are well-meaning people on both sides of those issues and legitimate points can be made by folks on both sides .  But outright  falsehoods and crazy conspiracies can't be debated. They need to be called out and exposed for what they are. - dangers to the survival of democracy. If you know of a lie that is being propagated, feel free to post the fact-check of that lie here.  We are losing people to this kind of stuff. Good people, with fears and prejudices, are being radicalized by the dissemination of this kind of disinformation.  I know, I've lost family members to this craziness. Let's all help STOP THE STEALING of our people's minds.

We'll start with Hunter Biden. There has been none(ZERO!) evidence linking Hunter Biden to child pornography and pedophilia.


From PolitiFact:

Two weeks until Election Day, social media is rife with attacks on Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. 
A New York Post story about a recovered computer hard drive led to attacks about the Biden son’s business dealings. Facebook and cable news have gone further to suggest new and unsupported theories about what’s on the hard drive.
One text post says, "Hunter Biden had 25,000 pics of him torturing and raping children under age 10 in China on his laptop!" 
Claims like this were amplified by websites like Natural News and InfoWars. Facebook has long banned the sites for posting anti-vaccine misinformation and hate speech, but we found one InfoWars video on Facebook with more than 173,000 views. It claims Trump "has footage of Hunter Biden raping and torturing little girls."
These posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) Similar posts have been shared tens of thousands of times, according to CrowdTangle, a social media insights tool. 
We can’t say for certain what is or isn’t on a hard drive. But there is no evidence to support allegations that it contains thousands of images of Hunter Biden abusing children in China.

The unproven claim has roots on a fringe internet forum that’s a known source of online disinformation, 4chan.

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Our ruling
Several Facebook posts claim "Hunter Biden had 25,000 pics of him torturing and raping children under age 10 in China on his laptop."

There is no evidence to support that. 

The allegation originated on an anonymous internet forum that’s a known source of online disinformation, and conspiracy websites that reported the claims relied on anonymous sources to back them up. The New York Post’s story about Hunter Biden’s laptop is unconfirmed — but it also does not mention child pornography. The owner of the computer repair shop where the laptop came from told reporters he didn’t see child pornography on it.
Without information to support the allegations, we rate the posts False.




Find the entire report here:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/20...r-biden-a/