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Twitter changes hacked material policy after Biden article row
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IANS | 16 Oct, 2020
Facing backlash over blocking a
New York Post article criticising Democratic presidential nominee Joe
Biden and his son, Twitter has now decided to make changes to its hacked
materials policy.
Twitter introduced the "Hacked Materials
Policy" back in 2018 to discourage and mitigate harms associated with
hacks and unauthorised exposure of private information.
After the
New York Post published a series of stories on Wednesday citing emails,
purportedly sent by Biden's son, Twitter blocked users from posting
pictures of the emails or links to two of the New York Post's stories,
citing its rules against sharing "content obtained through hacking that
contains private information."
But now Twitter wants to change
this policy because it thinks that there could be many unintended
consequences to journalists, whistleblowers and others in ways "that are
contrary to Twitter's purpose of serving the public conversation."
"Over
the last 24 hours, we've received significant feedback (from critical
to supportive) about how we enforced our Hacked Materials Policy
yesterday, After reflecting on this feedback, we have decided to make
changes to the policy and how we enforce it," Vijaya Gadde, Legal,
Policy and Trust & Safety Lead at Twitter said in a series of tweets
on Thursday.
"We believe that labeling Tweets and empowering
people to assess content for themselves better serves the public
interest and public conversation. The Hacked Material Policy is being
updated to reflect these new enforcement capabilities," she said.
However, Twitter is still blocking a New York Post article criticising Biden under the other reason it had cited on Wednesday.
Twitter
said that the "images contained in the articles include personal and
private information -- like email addresses and phone numbers -- which
violate our rules".
Facebook also limited the spread of the
story, saying the story had made unverified claims about Hunter Biden's
Ukraine business and therefore the story was eligible for third-party
fact-checking.
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