A thread.

.@andymstone, the ex-Democratic operative who said Facebook is "reducing circulation" on our Hunter Files reporting, said that step is being taken pending fact-checking.

It was a bizarre standard, seemingly not applied to countless anti-Trump stories that collapsed.

It's now been nearly two weeks: Has the "fact-checking" process been completed? Have our stories been allowed to recirculate?

Because in the interval, neither Joe nor Hunter Biden has disputed the authenticity of the e-mails or the ownership of the hard drive.

In the interval, the director of national intelligence has ruled out that this story was Russian disinformation.

In the interval, the FBI and Justice Department have also ruled out Russian disinformation.

In the interval, a former business partner of Hunter and Jim Biden's (a Democratic-donating naval officer) has come forward, on the record, to confirm the authenticity of another key e-mail thread we exposed.

Already, this story has far more evidentiary and on-the-record corroboration than, say, the Dossier reporting or that blooper of a report in Buzzfeed (remember, @benyt?) on Trump suborning perjury, which the Mueller team demolished within 12 hours.