“In 2016, hacked emails and foreign meddling shaped the political fight, and social media took much of the blame. Afterwards, the platforms designed circuit breakers to avoid a repeat in 2020,” Axios reports.
“Those breakers tripped Wednesday at both Facebook and Twitter to stop the spread of a New York Post story that reported allegations about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, based on what the paper said were emails provided to it Sunday by Rudy Giuliani.”
“The action by the platforms drew a swift backlash from conservatives — with the ironic result of drawing more attention to the material.”
As Jonathan Swan notes, “content obtained without authorization” is a hilarious standard that seemingly nobody at Twitter has spent any time thinking through.
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