With just a few weeks to go before the Nov. 3 vote, social media companies are continuing to shift their policies and, in some cases, are entirely reversing what they will and won’t allow on their sites. On Friday, Twitter began letting users share links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden that it had previously blocked from its service. (NYT)
The social media company had announced late Thursday it was changing some of the rules that the Post’s report ran afoul of, but reaffirmed that it would still bar users from posting links to the article since it violated a separate policy against publishing users’ private personal information. The report contains images that include individuals’ email addresses. (Politico)
A spokesperson for the platform confirmed that users can now share links to the article in tweets and direct messages because “the once private information included is now widely available in the press and on other digital platforms.” (The Hill)
Originally, Twitter said the Post’s stories—based on info furnished by Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer—violated its “hacked materials” policy, as they included information purportedly harvested from a laptop of uncertain origin. (Variety)