Posted on 30 October 2020
Halloween, fittingly, is tomorrow, and what could be scarier than the continued censorship of the free press?
For the seventeenth day in a row, the New York Post’s (the Post) Twitter account still appears to be locked, even with the presidential election a mere four days away.
Twitter first locked the account on October 14, after the Post published an article that claimed to expose alleged corrupt dealings of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden in Ukraine. The platform initially blocked the link completely, but later reversed course.
Following the controversy, Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s legal, policy and trust safety lead, announced two changes to Twitter’s “hacked materials” policy, tweeting: “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.”
Despite this decision, the Post’s account appears to remain locked, as Big Tech’s grasp on our democracy grows ever stronger.
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