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Twitter is hardly a 'small part' of the online world. It's the 3rd most-visited website on earth (facebook, btw -- who is also censoring this story -- is 4th). Twitter also self-describes themselves as follows (see app stores about their phone app for this):

"Join the conversation! Twitter is your go-to social media app and the source for what's happening in the world. Tweets cover trending topics from world news to local news, celebrity gossip to sports and gaming, politics to fun stories that go viral, if it happens in the world, it is trending now on Twitter."

Of course, that message should read "if it happens in the world and it's something we approve of sharing...".

So yeah - the NYP published the story. They also will routinely share their stories on other platforms for more readership. Except this particular one is being snuffed for 'fact-checking' reasons.