{"id":32119,"date":"2020-10-16T16:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32119"},"modified":"2020-10-16T16:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T20:21:31","slug":"twitter-dissembles-more-than-ever-to-justify-censoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=32119","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Dissembles More Than Ever to Justify Censoring"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter announces new policies after Hunter Biden report imbroglio<\/h1>\n

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The social media giant became the story when it reportedly decided to block a story<\/h3>\n

By Edmund DeMarche | Fox News<\/p>\n

A top policy executive at\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0announced policy changes at the social media giant late Thursday after the company faced its toughest allegations yet of\u00a0censorship in order to\u00a0protect Democratic candidates.<\/a><\/p>\n

Vijaya Gadde, the legal, policy and trust & safety lead at the company, announced that some of the changes will include its approach to \u201chacked content<\/a>\u201d and how it shares links on its platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll other Twitter Rules will still apply to the posting of or linking to hack materials, such as our rules against posting private information, synthetic and manipulated media, and non-consensual nudity,\u201d she posted.<\/p>\n

The social media giant became the story when it reportedly decided to block a story.<\/p>\n

The New York Post<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0Wednesday released a bombshell report just weeks before the presidential election that purported\u00a0to show emails between\u00a0Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic nominee Joe\u00a0Biden, and a\u00a0Burisma official\u00a0while his father was vice president under Barack Obama. The Ukrainian businessman thanked Hunter Biden for apparently accommodating\u00a0a meeting with his father, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden\u2019s detractors said the emails obtained by the Post, at the minimum, raise new questions about the former vice president’s character. Joe Biden has insisted that he has played no role in his son\u2019s business career and never spoke\u00a0to his\u00a0“son about his overseas business dealings.\u201d These emails may challenge those claims.<\/p>\n

Andrew Bates, a spokesman from the Biden campaign, said in a statement\u00a0to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, that the Post “never asked the Biden campaign about the critical elements of this story. They certainly never raised that Rudy Giuliani \u2014 whose discredited conspiracy theories and alliance with figures connected to Russian intelligence have been widely reported \u2014 claimed to have such materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMoreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden\u2019s official schedules from the time and no meeting,”\u00a0as alleged by the paper,\u00a0<\/em>ever took place, Bates said.<\/p>\n

The Post later said that Bates\u2019 statement did not deny the meeting, and pointed to a report in Politico that said his campaign indicated that a meeting could have occurred, but in passing.<\/p>\n

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