¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_Biden_laptop_controvers...
eg NPR
"We don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don't want to waste the listeners' and readers' time on stories that are just pure distractions."
I can only imagine how much more effective this strategy would be if you have codify it into a federal agency.
2) I clearly stated that it was suppressed by MSM, Twitter, Facebook for a short period before the election. Twitter and Facebook admitted it outright. Zuckerberg himself said they got a call from the State to "watch out" for it. It's no longer a debatable as to whether the suppression before the election happened.
And no, the downvotes come in droves when speaking less than positively about the American Democratic Party.
Bad inflation numbers going into the midterms? Joe B flubbing some speech or person reference? Just call it misleading or misquote on some stretch technicality and down moderate.