Twitter Finally Lifts Ban on The New York Post's Account Four Days Before the Election

Bronson Stocking | October 30, 2020 7:20 PM

Two weeks after banning The New York Post's reporting that exposed Joe Biden's apparent involvement in his son's overseas business activities, Twitter backed off on Friday and finally ended the ban on The Post's Twitter account.

The Post reports that Twitter demanded the newspaper founded in 1801 by Alexander Hamilton delete six tweets that linked to stories exposing Hunter Biden's overseas business activities and an apparent pay-to-play scheme involving Joe Biden before Twitter would restore access to The New York Post's account. Twitter appears to have made up out of whole cloth the allegation that The Post's reporting was based on hacked materials.

The Post never relented, and Twitter finally restored access to their account on Friday, four days before the election.

(Via The Post)

The company claimed The Post violated its policy on sharing “hacked materials” by tweeting links to bombshell exclusives on Biden’s emails — without ever saying how it came to that conclusion.
The move sparked widespread outrage that led Twitter to revise its policy so other users could tweet the stories.
But it continued to hold The Post’s account hostage — demanding the six tweets about its own reporting be deleted. They never were.
“While we’ve updated the policy, we don’t change enforcement retroactively. You will still need to delete the Tweets to regain access to your account,” a Twitter representative told The Post on Oct. 16.
Twitter also made the six tweets at issue invisible to users by replacing them with messages saying, “This Tweet is no longer available.”
On Friday, the company said that under its latest policy revision, “Decisions made under policies that are subsequently changed & published can now be appealed if the account at issue is a driver of that change.”
“We believe this is fair and appropriate,” Twitter said.
“This means that because a specific @nypost enforcement led us to update the Hacked Materials Policy, we will no longer restrict their account under the terms of the previous policy and they can now Tweet again.”