Twitter Inc. on Friday confirmed that it reversed its decision to block a link to a New York Post article about the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, despite lifting the ban late Thursday night.
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Republicans who blocked Twitter's earlier actions freely posted the story on the site. Arizona Representative Paul Gosar tweeted on Friday morning, "You can now share the banging story, Big Tech didn't want to see you."
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Twitter admitted on Friday that it had blocked links to early versions of New York Post articles, noting that private information contained in them had become widely available on the press and other platforms.
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The company's policy chief Vijaya Gadde said on Thursday night that Twitter had decided to change its hacked content policy following the feedback, but a spokesperson told Reuters that the New York Post's story "violated rules on private personal information To do "will still be blocked.
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Twitter initially stated that Post Story violated its "hacked content" policy, which prevents the distribution of content obtained through hacking, but no content on what content was viewed when it was hacked Details are not given.
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Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey said in a tweet on Friday morning that "it was wrong to directly block URLs" and suggested that Twitter should have implemented the tool with the label.
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"Our goal is to try to add context, and now we have the ability to do so," he tweeted.
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No labels were attached to the tweets of the story published on Friday. Twitter declined to answer Reuters questions about whether it was due to an error or a policy decision.
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The company had briefly banned the Twitter account of US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, as it posted a video on Thursday referencing the New York Post's story.
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Lindsay Graham, chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee, and Republican senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley said Thursday that the committee would vote on sending a sub-party to Dorsey on Tuesday.
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Separately, the Senate Commerce Committee confirmed on Friday that it would hold a hearing on October 28 with chief executives of Dorsey and Facebook Inc. and Google's chief adviser Inc. and to "preserve the Internet as a platform for open discourse Would be the best. "
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The companies first confirmed that officers would appear from afar during the hearing.
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