I mean, isn't it good when they uniformly apply policies against sharing illicitly obtained private content?
Fortunately, as with the Trump tax returns, the journalists handling the Panama Papers did not engage in such unscrupulous behavior.
Also, many used the absence of raw data to cast doubt on the authenticity of the information released by the NY Post.
And there are easy ways to establish authenticity without publishing raw data e.g. providing third party journalists with access to the data.
But still, how is Twitter even supposed to judge whether a story is trustworthy? No clue.
But perhaps there is a fair use argument to be made?
We can question the framing of data selected from the laptop, but the laptop itself has never been in dispute.
Would this apply to the Trump access hollywood tape (grab them by the...)?
No, I didn't publish a picture of your credit card, just the numbers on it.
So, they illegally obtained something and then misreported on it without giving people the ability to verify their claims. I’m not even sure why they’re allowed to be on twitter in that case.