OPINION / EDITORIAL_ Deconstructing Twitter’s nonsensical excuses for suppressing Post’s Hunter Biden scoops

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Deconstructing Twitter’s nonsensical excuses for suppressing Post’s Hunter Biden scoops

By Post Editorial Board
October 15, 2020 | 7:55pm | Updated


Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
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With the flimsiest of excuses, Twitter prevented its users from sharing, even privately, Post reporting that shows Hunter Biden monetized access to his father when Joe Biden was vice president — and its after-the-fact rationale was just as bogus.

Its supposed rules would ban most mainstream journalism in the Trump era. But it’s clear that weeks before the election, CEO Jack Dorsey is interested only in suppressing material embarrassing to the Democratic nominee.

Twitter moved fast Wednesday to keep users from sharing The Post’s story on the e-mail Hunter received from an executive from Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that paid him to the tune of $50,000 a month, thanking him for arranging a 2015 meeting with his dad. Its first excuse was the supposed “lack of authoritative reporting on the origins of the materials included in the article,” which might violate its “Hacked Materials Policy.”

Ridiculous. The Post piece recounted the origins of the data: A Delaware computer-repair shop passed on copies of a hard drive to the FBI and to Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer months after the laptop was left there and never picked up. (The store’s agreement with customers allows it to take possession after 90 days.)

Some users who’d shared the story found their accounts locked for breaking Twitter rules against “distribution of hacked material,” including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, the Trump campaign and The Post itself. “They essentially . . . said unless you delete a news story by the New York Post, I cannot regain access to my account,” McEnany told Fox News.

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