The New York Post has been locked out of Twitter for six days.

Fact check: we’re screwed. Last week, a small handful of leaders at just two companies challenged journalism at the conceptual level, potentially interfered with the U.S. presidential election, proved to half the country a grim and longly-held suspicion — that Silicon Valley is both capable of, and committed to mass political censorship — and placed in serious jeopardy the entire technology industry. Not just Twitter. Not just social media companies. The entire industry. Wednesday, Andy Stone, a communications director for Facebook and former Democratic Party operative with his partisan background insanely included in his Twitter bio, made an announcement: a breaking story on Joe and Hunter Biden from the New York Post would have its distribution reduced while “third-party fact-checkers” judged the veracity of the Post’s claims. In other words, the story was “fake.” Immediately following Facebook, Twitter escalated to an absolutely insane level, blocking all links to the story sent publicly as well as privately via direct messaging, and shutting down every account that shared screenshots of the offending material, including accounts belonging to the U.S. Press Secretary and the New York Post. But according to Twitter, the veracity of the Post’s claims was not the issue. The offending material was “content obtained without authorization.” There was concern the emails published by the Post were stolen from Hunter Biden. In other words, the story was “true.”

Happy Tuesday, folks, and welcome back to discourse Hell.