"Musk was referring to an October 2020 incident in which "Twitter temporarily blocked a New York Post story on Democratic nominee Joe Biden's son Hunter that it said violated a policy against posting hacked materials. The company did not suspend the entire news organization but did prevent it from tweeting for a period of time."
In that case, Twitter quickly changed its policy on sharing hacked materials after facing criticism for blocking links to the New York Post story, so Musk's criticism referred to a policy that no longer exists."
The problem with that revisionist framing is that it was in the final weeks leading to the 2020 election. Blocking that news materially altered the information that people were taking to the polls when they cast their vote. Glossing over the blatant manipulation of an election by Twitter is not good journalism. Twitter took the heat for it but the election was over by the time it all settled and the action made it very clear that Twitter was vulnerable to outside speech manipulation. In either case, the real problem was manipulation of media to block a story that would impact the results of an election. We can't know if it was Twitter's liberal employees, the DNC, Biden's campaign or some other force but what we do know is that major corruption stories on the eve of the election would have changed some number of votes. 8M? Probably not but who knows. It was a highly contested election.
In that case, Twitter quickly changed its policy on sharing hacked materials after facing criticism for blocking links to the New York Post story, so Musk's criticism referred to a policy that no longer exists."
The problem with that revisionist framing is that it was in the final weeks leading to the 2020 election. Blocking that news materially altered the information that people were taking to the polls when they cast their vote. Glossing over the blatant manipulation of an election by Twitter is not good journalism. Twitter took the heat for it but the election was over by the time it all settled and the action made it very clear that Twitter was vulnerable to outside speech manipulation. In either case, the real problem was manipulation of media to block a story that would impact the results of an election. We can't know if it was Twitter's liberal employees, the DNC, Biden's campaign or some other force but what we do know is that major corruption stories on the eve of the election would have changed some number of votes. 8M? Probably not but who knows. It was a highly contested election.
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