San Francisco : Twitter has reinstated the account of The New York Post which was blocked after it published the controversial story about Hunter Biden, the son of presidential candidate Joe Biden, and tweeted it six times with the link to the story.
The micro-blogging platform on Friday unlocked the New York Post’s account, ending a logjam between it and the newspaper.
“We’re baaaaaaack,” the Post’s Twitter account tweeted after Twitter said it was reversing its policies in a way that would allow the account to be reinstated.
We’re baaaaaaack https://t.co/D39qdLGMdV pic.twitter.com/SkVtp4o9ew — New York Post (@nypost) October 30, 2020 On October 15, Twitter’s trust and safety lead Vijaya Gadde had tweeted that the company would “no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them”.
The next day, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that blocking the URL “was wrong”.
In a reversal of its earlier stance, Twitter finally decided to allow users to share the Post article.
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