I’m not buying it.
Rather than suppress a massive story weeks before an election, a more responsible and sober course of action would have been to simply reach out to the totally public and accessible people at NYPost to inform them that they need to redact a few emails.
Rather than suppress a massive story weeks before an election, a more responsible and sober course of action would have been to simply reach out to the totally public and accessible people at NYPost to inform them that they need to redact a few emails.
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1316529797795844098
The NY Post is not a group of Macedonian teens flinging fake news into the internet ecosphere.
This is an absolutely outrageous excuse to censor a major media outlet breaking a big story of huge public interest.
In short, it does not pass the smell test.
This is an absolutely outrageous excuse to censor a major media outlet breaking a big story of huge public interest.
In short, it does not pass the smell test.
The chronology:
1. @Twitter did this censorship without prior comms to the publisher.
2. Twitter said it was because the post violated their hacked info policy (citing no evidence).
3. Suspended WH press sec and journos.
4. Found the pers info and added that to the excuses.
1. @Twitter did this censorship without prior comms to the publisher.
2. Twitter said it was because the post violated their hacked info policy (citing no evidence).
3. Suspended WH press sec and journos.
4. Found the pers info and added that to the excuses.
All this leads me to believe Twitter was scrambling internally and found the email and phone number well after the fact.
They banned it initially, imo, because the hoard of idiotic disinfo reporters were saying it was false info from Russia.
Then they needed to justify it.
They banned it initially, imo, because the hoard of idiotic disinfo reporters were saying it was false info from Russia.
Then they needed to justify it.
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