Posted on 10/16/2020 7:31:31 AM PDT by SJackson
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday reiterated his apology for how the company handled an unverified New York Post report claiming to contain a “smoking gun” email related to presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.
“Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix. Our goal is to attempt to add context, and now we have capabilities to do that,” Dorsey said in a tweet.
The story from the Post story alleges then-Vice President Biden’s son Hunter Biden attempted to introduce to a top executive at a Ukrainian company Hunter worked for to his father. A spokesman for the Biden campaign denied the claims.
Twitter chose to restrict distribution of the story, citing its hacked material policy, which doesn’t “permit the use of our services to directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in physical harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.” The company later said that it blocked the story’s link specifically because it contained images of hacked material with personal and private information.
Twitter faced swift backlash from conservatives and President Donald Trump for its decision to restrict the report.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told reporters Thursday alongside Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., that the panel would vote next week on whether to subpoena Dorsey for a hearing in front of their committee next Friday.
Cruz later told CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Thursday that Twitter’s actions “marked a dramatic escalation and it crossed a new line.” He argued that blocking the article was tantamount to “election interference” and questioned Twitter’s liability protection under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Duhhhhhhhhhh… ya think?
“I’m sorry I got caught.”
Easy fix Jack. Unblock it. Take responsibility and tell your censors to knock it off.
Thanks for calling everyone’s attention to it, Jack. You lose.
Time to break the company up and Twitter the pieces into the wind
So are they going to restore all the accounts they blocked?
I agree. Want action not words. Fire the people who did it and step down from Twitter and let the article get posted. Note: The algorithm better have not been revised.
He is guilty election meddling 101.
Too late Jack.
I guess being CEO means he can get millions of dollars to sit on the sidelines and make inane comments without taking any responsibility.
Thanks for helping Biden lose the election.
Twitter is complete trash and a arm of the radical Pro-Socialist Wing of the Democrat Party.
Whoa there partner.
There are lots of principled conservatives who let me know in no uncertain terms that Twitter is a private company and that if we don't like it we should start our own company.
That's a pretty clear admission that they are not just a platform for information- they are involved in editorial decisions. They should be treated as publishers, and should have no protection from libel. That means they are responsible for every tweet that is made, by anyone.
This action put Twitter in a bad position legally.
And the CEO knows it.
Dorsey has no real control of his rabid, leftist employees. They continue to block and censor. Either that or Dorsey is a pathetic, hypocritical liar. Both are probably true.
It is a monopoly and was granted “protection” from liability lawsuits because they claimed they were a common carrier and did not censor such access.
This is false. Time to bust up the monopoly.
Buying up everything in sight squashes competition. Same as when Facebook’s been doing it. And they also censored sharing of the NYPost article.
People are already voting. This is affecting the election.
Exactly. Strip themof 230 exemption! Time to sue these tyrants out of buisness.
100%
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