From TechDirt: Twitter Change in Post Censorship Policy After Trumpist Meltdown On Sketchy NY Post - Rudy Giuiliani Hacking

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Twitter Fixes Its Bad Policy On Blocking 'Hacked' Documents

Content Moderation

from the good-to-see dept

Fri, Oct 16th 2020 9:38am — Mike Masnick

"As I'm sure you're already aware, there was a lot of focus this week on Twitter's content moderation practices, after it chose to stop people from linking to a sketchy NY Post article that contained some emails taken from a computer that was claimed to have been Hunter Biden's laptop. While many in the Trump orbit were insisting that this was "anti-conservative bias," the company said that the issue was violating its "hacked content" policies, as well as its policies against showing images revealing personal information, such as email addresses.

As we have discussed in the past this policy was already quite controversial, out of fear that it would be used to block reporting on leaked documents.

Late last night, Twitter announced that after hearing those concerns, they were changing the policy. . .

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

 

As the new announcement notes, the policy against linking to private information or manipulated media remain in place -- suggesting that this won't actually change the ability to link to that NY Post article. But it does fix the hamfisted nature of that policy.

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