As Twitchy reported, after the New York Post released its story about damning emails on Ukraine purportedly recovered from Hunter Biden’s laptop that was abandoned at a repair shop, Facebook announced it was reducing distribution of the story on its platform — or more precisely, a Facebook employee who used to work for Sen. Barbara Boxer, the DCCC, and the John Kerry campaign made the announcement.
Then we learned that Twitter was flagging the Post’s Hunter Biden email story as “potentially harmful” and “unsafe” and even banned people from posting a link to the story.
New York Post business reporter Noah Manskar has more: He reports that Twitter sent an email saying it was locking the @nypost Twitter account because the Biden story violated its rules about “hacked material.”
The Post's primary Twitter account (@nypost) has also been locked because the Hunter Biden stories violate its rules against "distribution of hacked material," per email we received from Twitter https://t.co/wbeYd6c3CA
— Noah Manskar (@noahmanskar) October 14, 2020
Twitter says this was done because of the lack of authoritative reporting on where the materials in our Biden story originated. Per the story, the emails came off a copy of a hard drive obtained by Rudy Giuliani; original hard drive was left at a Delaware computer repair shop https://t.co/2SoCUJ7gkr
— Noah Manskar (@noahmanskar) October 14, 2020
Email wasn’t hacked. But @Twitter allows @nytimes to print story on illegally obtained tax returns from anonymous sources. That’s election interference @Twitter
— Mean Wee Old Woman Deb (@mddebm) October 14, 2020
Guess when the @nytimes does it it’s not against the rules?
— MAGAmillennial (@NPHva) October 14, 2020
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“Hacked”
— Why8Urp (@Why8Urp) October 14, 2020
It is not hacked material
— Sam Adams (@SamAdamsTPP) October 14, 2020
It wasn't hacked.
— CallThemOut (@Callthemout2016) October 14, 2020
It wasn't hacked, though.
— ?Allison? (@kruppofnoodles) October 14, 2020
How can something abandoned by the owner be "hacked?"
— Andy Dirtdart (@Nav5_Oh) October 14, 2020
It’s not hacked by definition
There is something huge behind it all that is provoking this type of reaction
— The Dog Didnt Bark (@Nonamewillbegi1) October 14, 2020
It wasn't hacked. The computer was abandoned
— Roger and 22 others (@Rog3r247) October 14, 2020
What evidence is there that it was hacked?
— Huge Capet (@hugecapet) October 14, 2020
This is astonishing.
— Rorate Caeli (@RorateCaeli) October 14, 2020
I would argue that the material turned over to the Post can't be considered "hacked" materials since the computer shop owner was given permission to access the computer's drives.
— Allen Echiverri (@peaceloveandal) October 14, 2020
….also you dont come pay your bill, then the item becomes salvage and thay includes any data on it…
— Budahmon (@Budahmon) October 14, 2020
So just say "anonymous sources" instead and you'll be fine right? 🙂
— Michael Woods (@alienhunter3) October 14, 2020
There is nothing in this policy that aligns with what they're doing. pic.twitter.com/EDoksTeeUa
— Casey (@space_case12) October 14, 2020
If you throw something in the garbage and someone else picks it up, it is not stolen. If you bring a computer to a computer store to be fixed and never pick it up, it becomes the store's property.
— mostly peaceful weapons of mass distraction (@groovermint) October 14, 2020
Information suppression. Someone doesn’t want this to come out. I wonder who. ?
— The Loudspeaker (@LoudspeakerThe) October 14, 2020
Apparently, @nypost is up again, but Twitter is still flagging the story.
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