{"id":90724,"date":"2020-10-16T02:55:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/deconstructing-twitters-excuses-for-suppressing-posts-hunter-biden-scoops\/"},"modified":"2020-10-16T02:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T23:55:56","slug":"deconstructing-twitters-excuses-for-suppressing-posts-hunter-biden-scoops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/deconstructing-twitters-excuses-for-suppressing-posts-hunter-biden-scoops\/","title":{"rendered":"#Deconstructing Twitter’s excuses for suppressing Post’s Hunter Biden scoops"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Deconstructing Twitter<\/a>’s excuses for suppressing Post’s Hunter Biden scoops<\/strong>”
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\n With the flimsiest of excuses, Twitter prevented its users from sharing, even privately, Post reporting that shows Hunter Biden monetized access to his father when Joe Biden was vice president \u2014 and its after-the-fact rationale was just as bogus.<\/p>\n

Its supposed rules would ban most mainstream journalism in the Trump era. But it\u2019s clear that weeks before the election, CEO Jack Dorsey is interested only in suppressing material embarrassing to the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n

Twitter moved fast Wednesday to keep users from sharing The Post\u2019s story on the e-mail Hunter received from an executive from Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that paid him to the tune of $50,000 a month, thanking him for arranging a 2015 meeting with his dad. Its first excuse was the supposed \u201clack of authoritative reporting on the origins of the materials included in the article,\u201d which might violate its \u201cHacked Materials Policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ridiculous. The Post piece recounted the origins of the data: A Delaware computer-repair shop passed on copies of a hard drive to the FBI and to Rudy Giuliani\u2019s lawyer months after the laptop was left there and never picked up. (The store\u2019s agreement with customers allows it to take possession after 90 days.)<\/p>\n

Some users who\u2019d shared the story found their accounts locked for breaking Twitter rules against \u201cdistribution of hacked material,\u201d including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the Trump campaign and The Post itself. \u201cThey essentially .\u2009.\u2009. said unless you delete a news<\/a> story by the New York Post, I cannot regain access to my account,\u201d McEnany told Fox News.<\/p>\n

Neither Biden has claimed Hunter was hacked. And neither Biden has disputed the facts of the reporting. The Biden campaign has said only that a meeting with the executive, Vadym Pozharskyi, wasn\u2019t on his \u201cofficial\u201d schedule, but conceded to Politico that it couldn\u2019t deny any casual encounters.<\/p>\n

Dorsey admitted Wednesday night that suppressing the story \u201cwith zero context as to why we\u2019re blocking\u201d was \u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet his new \u201ccontext\u201d was just as BS as before. Twitter still insisted \u2014 without evidence \u2014 the material went against its \u201cHacked Materials Policy\u201d and went on to say that articles including \u201cpersonal and private information \u2014 like e-mail addresses and phone numbers \u2014\u201d violate its rules.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s laughable. People angry at President Trump\u2019s immigration policy tweeted out White House adviser Stephen Miller\u2019s address, and protesters eventually gathered outside the building. Those tweets remain on the platform.<\/p>\n

Nor did Twitter mention \u201cpersonal\u201d information \u2014 or ask The Post to redact it \u2014 when it first blocked the reporting.<\/p>\n

Twitter claims its policy \u201cprohibits the use of our service to distribute content obtained without authorization. We don\u2019t want to incentivize hacking by allowing Twitter to be used as distribution for possibly illegally obtained materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

But The New York Times obtained Trump\u2019s tax returns \u2014 \u201cpossibly illegally,\u201d since the paper refuses to say how it got them \u2014 and Twitter didn\u2019t bat an eyelash. We guarantee the president didn\u2019t authorize the release.<\/p>\n

And \u201ccontent obtained without authorization\u201d describes vast amounts of reporting in the Trump era, in which highly promoted pieces are published using only anonymous sources, many in government. Heck, stories about the Pentagon Papers would be banned under Twitter\u2019s supposed new rules.<\/p>\n

The company clearly isn\u2019t trying to suppress all investigative journalism. Just stories embarrassing to its preferred candidate.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, it added to its block list a new Post story that revealed Hunter also merchandized his dad in China: In an e-mail, he wrote a Chinese tycoon \u201chad sweetened the terms of an earlier, three-year consulting contract with CEFC that was to pay him $10 million annually \u2018for introductions alone.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s campaign hasn\u2019t been shy about how grateful it is. \u201cI think Twitter\u2019s response to the actual article itself makes clear that these purported allegations are false and they\u2019re not true and glad to see social-media companies like Twitter taking responsibility to limit misinformation,\u201d said the campaign\u2019s top press secretary, Jamal Brown. \u201cTwitter\u2019s response to the actual article itself makes clear that these purported allegations are false.\u201d<\/p>\n

What circular reasoning! Twitter blocks it so it must be false. But the company isn\u2019t saying the story is inaccurate \u2014 only that it agrees with Team Joe that no one should be reading anything damning to the Biden campaign. How cozy.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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