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One difference is that NYT isn't publishing the documents, only claims about them. Twitter doesn't censor unverifiable claims, such as the Presidents own claims
by srtjstjsj 6y ago
One difference is that NYT isn't publishing the documents, only claims about them. Twitter doesn't censor unverifiable claims, such as the Presidents own claims about his tax returns.
The Post refuses to take down the link to what they claim are private photos and documents.
It seems pretty clear that they prefer to keep the conversation focused on the censorship of private photos (which they can then conflate with censorship of their corruption allegations) instead of on the mix of nothingburger and likely faked evidence against Joe Biden.
- NeverFade 6y agoIf any story based on "private photos and documents" is to be blocked, then most news stories must be blocked on Twitter. That includes the Snowden leaks, Panama Papers, the Pentagon Papers, virtually all Wikileaks releases, and many of the most important news stories of the past several decades. Twitter pretends to have standards by which any news story can be censored, then uses that standard to very selectively block specific stories as they choose. Also, from a journalistic perspective, it is much better to publish the source documents, as NYP has done, rather than quote from them liberally without publishing the original, as the NYT has done.