Now Twitter has modified its hacked supplies coverage, and based on Gadde:
“1. We are going to now not take away hacked content material except it’s straight shared by hackers or these performing in live performance with them
2. We are going to label Tweets to supply context as a substitute of blocking hyperlinks from being shared on Twitter.”
Why the adjustments? We wish to tackle the considerations that there may very well be many unintended penalties to journalists, whistleblowers and others in methods which are opposite to Twitter’s function of serving the general public dialog.
— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) October 16, 2020
So, what’s altering?
1. We are going to now not take away hacked content material except it’s straight shared by hackers or these performing in live performance with them
2. We are going to label Tweets to supply context as a substitute of blocking hyperlinks from being shared on Twitter
— Vijaya Gadde (@vijaya) October 16, 2020
These adjustments ought to present a framework the place Twitter’s insurance policies nonetheless goal hackers who search to share stolen supplies, however open the door for reporting about leaks. Whether or not or not this mollifies critics who declare the corporate has proven bias a technique or one other, stays to be seen. Notably, because the New York Occasions factors out, the New York Submit article itself will proceed to be blocked, because it comprises hyperlinks to non-public info and electronic mail tackle which are still prohibited under Twitter’s personal information policy.
That is down within the thread a bit, however nonetheless vital and related. All different guidelines nonetheless apply. https://t.co/0LHWkNXWrY
— Brandon (@bborrman) October 16, 2020
