Twitter is making minor concessions after the enormous outcry of its censorship of the NY Post story on Hunter Biden. This is a case of three steps forward, one step back, and should not in any way be considered an actual change in the overall trajectory towards increasing censorship and control over what is allowed to be said. There is a glaring contradiction between blocking NY Post reporting on material of unclear provenance, while allowing NY Times discussion of Trump’s taxes (as just one example).
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted Wednesday night:
“Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”
Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s Legal Lead, tweeted late on Thursday that the tech behemoth is modifying its Hacked Materials Policy, which has been selectively employed, to put it mildly:
“Over the last 24 hours, we’ve received significant feedback (from critical to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy yesterday. After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make changes to the policy and how we enforce it.
