“It was literally just a process error. This was not against them [the Post] in any particular way,” Dorsey told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, in comments reported by the Post.
Representative Steve Scalise (R., La.) asked Dorsey during the hearing if any employee was “held accountable” for blocking the Post‘s account. “For their entire account to be blocked for two weeks by a mistake seems like a really big mistake,” Scalise said. “Was anyone held accountable in your censoring department for that mistake?”
Dorsey responded that “we don’t have a censoring department,” claiming that the company did not directly block the Post‘s account. “We required them to delete the tweet and then they could tweet it again,” Dorsey said.
Twitter initially removed the Post story, which was based on emails between Hunter Biden and an executive at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, citing its “hacked materials” policy. At the time, the policy forbade uploading content “obtained through hacking that contains private information, may put people in physical harm or danger, or contains trade secrets.”
Doesn’t that or shouldn’t that be considered as information that could have made a difference in the election and the way people voted on November 3. Perhaps this report on Hunter Biden could have changed the opinion of tens of thousands, or maybe even millions of people about the Biden family and how they voted.
On October 30, two weeks after the story broke, Twitter relented and unlocked the Post‘s account. Dorsey has previously stated that the decision to block the Post story was “wrong.”
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