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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Wednesday night the site’s communication concerning its much-criticized crackdown on tweets sharing links to the New York Post report on Hunter Biden.
Twitter’s crackdown — which reportedly included people sharing links to the report publicly and in DMs, and apparently led to some accounts like the Post’s and Kayleigh McEnany’s being locked — received significant criticism from many media figures, including ones very skeptical of the sourcing of the report.
Hours later, Dorsey said in a tweet, “Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”
Dorsey shared a thread with a statement from Twitter trying to “provide much needed clarity”: