USA: White House: Twitter documents are red herrings

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White House: Twitter documents are red herrings

The White House internally evaluates the recent release Chirping-Documents targeting US President Joe Biden’s son as a red herring.

White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said it was an interesting “coincidence” that the documents were “full of old news” released at a time when Twitter was being asked “very serious questions about rising anger levels, hate and anti-Semitism on its platform” – and questions about how the group allows this to happen. diversionary tactics“, she said.

Twitter chief Elon Musk had shared tweets on internal Twitter documents about the controversy surrounding a New York Post article that appeared shortly before the 2020 presidential election. The article included an email from Biden’s son Hunter concerning to its operations abroad, often the target of political attacks Joe Biden were.

Moss shared a series of tweets from a journalist. These showed, among other things, several screenshots of internal communications, after which there was also a controversial internal debate on Twitter about blocking the article. Musk wrote that the story was deliberately withheld.

Twitter blocked the article and the newspaper’s account at the time because the report allegedly violated rules that prohibit the dissemination of information obtained through illegal hacks. Then-Twitter chief Jack Dorsey later acknowledged that the crackdown on the “New York Post“it was a mistake. Twitter then changed its rules.

Musk bought Twitter for about $44 billion in late October. Before the congressional elections in November, he campaigned on the Republican platform. He also unblocked former US President Donald Trump’s account.

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