Twitter Fixes Its Bad Policy On Blocking 'Hacked' Documents

Twitter Fixes Its Bad Policy On Blocking 'Hacked' Documents

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201015/22544745514/twitter-fixes-bad-policy-blocking-hacked-documents.shtml

As I'm sure you're already aware, there was a lot of focus this week on Twitter's content moderation practices, after it chose to stop people from linking to a sketchy NY Post article that contained some emails taken from a computer that was claimed to have been Hunter Biden's laptop. While many in the Trump orbit were insisting that this was "anti-conservative bias," the company said that the issue was violating its "hacked content" policies, as well as its policies against showing images revealing personal information, such as email addresses.

As we have discussed in the past this policy was already quite controversial, out of fear that it would be used to block reporting on leaked documents.

Twitter Fixes Its Bad Policy On Blocking 'Hacked' Documents

Oct 16, 2020, 5:21pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201015/22544745514/twitter-fixes-bad-policy-blocking-hacked-documents.shtml > As I'm sure you're already aware, there was a lot of focus this week on Twitter's content moderation practices, after it chose to stop people from linking to a sketchy NY Post article that contained some emails taken from a computer that was claimed to have been Hunter Biden's laptop. While many in the Trump orbit were insisting that this was "anti-conservative bias," the company said that the issue was violating its "hacked content" policies, as well as its policies against showing images revealing personal information, such as email addresses. > As we have discussed in the past this policy was already quite controversial, out of fear that it would be used to block reporting on leaked documents.