Twitter Amends The Rules That Led It To Slow Spread Of Hunter Biden Story Amid Furor From Republicans

  • Date: 16-Oct-2020
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Economy
  • Country:Middle East
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Twitter Amends The Rules That Led It To Slow Spread Of Hunter Biden Story Amid Furor From Republicans

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is changing the internal policies that led it to significantly limit the sharing of a recent controversial New York Post story about Hunter Biden, a decision that follows a day of intense criticism from President Trump and other Republicans.

Twitter says it will no longer block users from sharing URLs to stories that contain hacked materials and will instead append warning labels. “We believe that labeling Tweets and empowering people to assess content for themselves better serves the public interest and public conversation,” Twitter spokeswoman Vijaya Gadde wrote in a tweet.

The social media site blocked URLs to the Post story from