https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/technology/twitter-new-yo...
> With just a few weeks to go before the Nov. 3 vote, […] Twitter underlined just how fluid its policies were when it began letting users share links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden that it had previously blocked from its service.
This link literally says the opposite of what you are saying.
They allowed the article to be shared a few weeks before the election. They kept the NY Post account banned until October 31st. 1 week before the election.[1]
This was meaningful censorship of a right-leaning news organization. It would not have happened were the shoe on the other foot at a liberal bastion like Twitter.
The solution to the problem is to greatly pare back the type of moderation allowed by the platform. Elon seems to be implementing this.[2]
1. https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/twitter-unblocks-new-y...
2. https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/elon-musk-says-suspending-ny-p...
I think Twitter made the wrong call but it’s not like this was the Pentagon Papers or the Lewinsky story.
Imagine the outrage if Elon tomorrow decided to suspend one of these news orgs, even with only a few days to go before the election. Compare that to the crickets we hear about the NY Post.
If there’s a left wing analog to NYPost, I can definitely imagine an article getting deboosted or banned under similar conditions.
Prior to that Twitter had never taken such action against a news outlet.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/30/twitter-n...
It honestly takes a lot of belief in fantasy to think an entity capable of hacking multiple 2FA services, major corporations and multiple governments, did so and planted evidence on a laptop. Then gave that laptop away on the hope that the shop owner would discover it and give it to the news.
It seems far more likely that the incestuous child molester who filters millions of dollars in bribes annually dropped off one of his connected laptops then forgot about it and failed to pay because he has abused cocaine for 3+ decades.
So I think your claim that 'it would not have happened if the shoe were on the other foot' is false -- because it did happen in a significant way, and not one favourable to your imagined 'Liberal Establishment'.
Wiki has a well-cited article on the topic that's probably worth your attention: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_... -- specifically the social media section.
Several of the emails found on the laptop make it look as though Hunter was selling influence/access to his father to foreign companies and other foreign entities. Whether or not Joe was in on it is not certain, but several of the foreign parties Hunter was working with certainly seemed to think it got them something of value.
“The best approach” is to throw your employees under the bus and personally shame them in public on a matter that could very legitimately put themselves and their families at risk?
Get real.
Yes, they changed their https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materi... according to https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/twitter-changes-its-hacked...