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The New York Post’s Twitter account has been unsuspended after what had been a two-week standoff over the social media network’s former “Hacked Materials Policy.”
In a series of tweets posted early Friday evening, Twitter’s official “Twitter Safety” account said it would stop punishing the Post for having violated its original policy, which was updated recently after backlash erupted over its censorship.
“Our policies are living documents. We’re willing to update and adjust them when we encounter new scenarios or receive important feedback from the public. One such example is the recent change to our Hacked Materials Policy and its impact on accounts like the New York Post,” the social media network wrote.
“In response, we’re updating our practice of not retroactively overturning prior enforcement. Decisions made under policies that are subsequently changed & published can now be appealed if the account at issue is a driver of that change. We believe this is fair and appropriate.”
In other words, the Post is now free to tweet again.
View the tweets below:
Our policies are living documents. We’re willing to update and adjust them when we encounter new scenarios or receive important feedback from the public. One such example is the recent change to our Hacked Materials Policy and its impact on accounts like the New York Post.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 30, 2020
In response, we’re updating our practice of not retroactively overturning prior enforcement.
Decisions made under policies that are subsequently changed & published can now be appealed if the account at issue is a driver of that change. We believe this is fair and appropriate.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 30, 2020
This means that because a specific @nypost enforcement led us to update the Hacked Materials Policy, we will no longer restrict their account under the terms of the previous policy and they can now Tweet again.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 30, 2020
The standoff began when the Post, a 218-year-old news outlet, published six tweets on Oct. 14 that linked to a story containing bombshell allegations about Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden and his youngest son, Hunter.
The allegations were based on emails, photos and videos found on a laptop that had allegedly been owned by Hunter. In response to pressure from the Democrat Party and its media allies, Twitter promptly suspended the New York Post’s account and began blocking all other users from linking to and sharing the Post’s reporting.
Twitter’s censorship of the Post’s reporting triggered massive cries of censorship from conservative critics and provoked congressional Republicans into subpoenaing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee.
The backlash eventually led to Twitter relenting a day later by adjusting its “Hacked Materials Policy.” The social media network still maintained that the content shared by the Post was “hacked content” but decided it would “no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them.”
Look:
So, what’s changing?
1. We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them
2. We will label Tweets to provide context instead of blocking links from being shared on Twitter
— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) October 16, 2020
However, Twitter refused to outright roll back the Post’s suspension. Instead, the network demanded that the paper abide by its original policy by voluntarily removing the tweets that had triggered its suspension in the first place.
This move triggered another round of recriminations, with critics describing the rationale behind Twitter’s decision as “half-cocked nonsense.”
Look:
Twitter‘s rationale for keeping the @nypost locked out is half-cocked nonsense.
Free the New York Post! https://t.co/mHHrtxixoY
— Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) October 27, 2020
…tweets CNN, while the New York Post remains locked out of its Twitter account for the 11th day… https://t.co/OoHGDC3J2l
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) October 25, 2020
If I had a media-focused TV show, I’d have a little bug in the corner that was an ongoing countdown of every day the New York Post remains locked out of their own Twitter account. Now at 12 days!
How this is not the biggest media story in the country is stunning to me.
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) October 26, 2020
The New York Post’s Twitter account has been locked for a week because it has published allegations about the Bidens that haven’t been denied.
Whatever your political persuasion, this is an appalling attack on freedom of speech & freedom of the press.
What is going on @jack ?— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 22, 2020
I don’t ever want to hear a single complaint from a member of the media again about attacks on the free press or the First Amendment.
The New York Post has been locked out of its Twitter account for a week and none of you care.
— Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) October 22, 2020
I know there’s nothing fashionable about this but it’s absolutely bizarre Twitter has locked the New York Post’s Twitter account for over a week. I’ve criticized them as much as anyone but this is absurd overreach and the silence from the media is remarkable.
— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) October 22, 2020
Note how the critics also bashed the mainstream media for their glaring lack of interest not only in Twitter’s censorship of the free press, but also in the Post’s reporting, which has since been corroborated by multiple sources.
Perhaps the worst offenders were the “journalists” at CNN. Brian Stelter, who cries foul about “attacks on the media” whenever President Donald Trump says a single mean word about the press, was nowhere to be found.
Meanwhile, Jake Tapper was adamant that the proper solution to the crisis was for the Post to simply bend the knee and remove its original tweets, despite the outlet having done nothing wrong.
Jake Tapper’s suggestion on how to end New York Post’s Twitter lockdown NOT well received https://t.co/sNFDAmh5DT
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) October 30, 2020
Though the crisis is now resolved, the anger hasn’t abated — neither toward Twitter over its censorship of legitimate reporting, nor toward the media for their tacit endorsement of censorship of reporting that doesn’t benefit their clear-cut ideological bent.
The lingering anger toward Twitter has been particularly visceral.
Look:
Is there an apology here for falsely accusing them of being involved in hacking?
— Cerno (@Cernovich) October 30, 2020
Translation:
We have pro and ex-Biden staffers running our faux, non-partisan fact checking department, and miscalculated our ability to put one over on you. We’ll talk about change, but will be back with better disguised insidiousness for the Mid-Terms.
— William Jennings (@willjennings60) October 30, 2020
Are you going to apologize, @Jack, and say you were wrong to engage in censorship of the @NYPost for the purpose of election interference?
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) October 30, 2020
Couldnt have handled this worse. Still allow Farrakhan and Kohmenei on this platform which is disgraceful.
— Brick Top (@Eradicator_NYC) October 30, 2020
TWTR and @jack committed broad election interference and voter suppression for the past week and a half.
— Nathan Jarrett (@NathanJarrett9) October 30, 2020
I don’t want an apology. I want charges laid. Enough is enough.
— Gyapong🎃 🇺🇸🔥 (@dhgyapong) October 30, 2020
“Charges” as in criminal charges …
In related news, Twitter’s stock price plummeted by over 20 percent Friday morning after it posted a large slump in daily active users.
As for the Post, its feeling quite jolly:
We’re baaaaaaack https://t.co/D39qdLGMdV pic.twitter.com/SkVtp4o9ew
— New York Post (@nypost) October 30, 2020
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