As Twitchy reported, a reporter for the New York Post, which broke the story on Hunter Biden’s emails from his abandoned laptop, said Twitter had sent an email explaining that it was locking the @nypost account for violating its policy on distribution of hacked material. Now NPR’s Shannon Bond says that a spokesperson for Twitter explained that the social media platform was blocking links to or images of the material in question in line with the company’s hacked materials policy.
From Twitter spox: "In line with our Hacked Materials Policy, as well as our approach to blocking URLs, we are taking action to block any links to or images of the material in question on Twitter." https://t.co/4bbO621CXj
— Shannon Bond (@shannonpareil) October 14, 2020
What was hacked?
Twitter's policy says you can't use it "to directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information". Company says it's taking this action because of the lack of authoritative reporting about the origins of the materials in the NY Post piece
— Shannon Bond (@shannonpareil) October 14, 2020
That’s laughably false.
— Brian Knotts (@brianknotts) October 14, 2020
Wasn't hacked. It was surrendered.
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) October 14, 2020
There's no evidence materials were "hacked".
If a laptop is left unclaimed at a repair shop for a certain period of time, it becomes property of the shop.
— Liberty & justice matter (@Travel_Crazed) October 14, 2020
"On the off chance this was hacked material, we are flagging it and not allowing it on our platform."
— Viktor-ious (@IousViktor) October 14, 2020
I guess it's a good thing the laptop wasn't hacked then.
— all quarks matter (@QS31236476) October 14, 2020
By falsely claiming the records were hacked, rather than the legal property of the repair shop following payment default by Hunter Biden, Twitter is itself deliberately spreading false information to justify its illegal election interference. https://t.co/MFBSqWq3oT
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 14, 2020
WHAT WAS HACKED?
— Crapplefratz – The Hipster Wookie (@Crapplefratz) October 14, 2020
How can it be hacked when it's it's on the hard drive and in FBI hands?
— Veronica66 (@Veronica6617) October 14, 2020
How is it “hacked” when they have the actual computer and hard drive. So real stories get censored while fake stories get published, I get it.
— Song MAGAMan ?? (@BbobClark) October 14, 2020
Uh… none of this was hacked though.
— Passably Affable (@tbrusletten) October 14, 2020
Who has confirmed these were hacked. This is election tampering.
— BamaNicki (@bamanicky) October 14, 2020
Everything I don't like was obtained by hacking.
— Nick (@OrangeJello23) October 14, 2020
So if a party conceals how the information is obtained then it's okay?
Basically, the more transparent a party is regarding how the info was obtained the less likely twitter will allow it to spread? Seems backward…
— John Hyde (@JohnFlippinHyde) October 14, 2020
There is zero evidence of hacking. This is attempted information control, pure and simple.
Antitrust action needs to fly against the big tech folks, today if not sooner. This is a national crisis and far worse than any alleged "interference " by Russia.
— JimBobLAX (@JimBobLAX) October 14, 2020
This is a dry run for controlling the news on election night.
— Dan Wright (@DanSWright) October 14, 2020
That's what they use as excuse to censor the story, concerns about the legality of how the info was received? What about Trump's illegally leaked tax returns, I can't recall them censoring that as well.
— Kaizuka Inaho (@AZKG6) October 14, 2020
Hackers must be magicians or something, they can conveniently be blamed for anything amd people will buy it.
— Kotae (@JihadiWeeaboo) October 14, 2020
Ask Joy Reid and Steve Scully.
Related:
‘This is insane’: Twitter flagging NY Post’s Hunter Biden email story as ‘potentially harmful’ and ‘unsafe’ https://t.co/eWDGvlYr1y
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 14, 2020
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