Twitter yesterday appeared to backtrack on its decision to block links to a New York Post article about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, despite reaffirming the ban late on Thursday.
Republicans who had decried Twitter’s earlier actions posted the story freely on the site. “You can now share the bombshell story Big Tech didn’t want you to see,” Arizona Representative Paul Gosar tweeted yesterday morning.
Twitter declined to comment.
The company’s policy chief Vijaya Gadde said Thursday night that Twitter had decided to make changes to its hacked materials policy following feedback, but a spokesman later said that the New York Post story would still be blocked for “violating the rules on private personal information.”
“We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them,” Gadde said.
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