“Twitter, before it was bought by Elon Musk, had a policy regarding hacked materials — but the page is
no longer available. A
pre-Musk version of the policy, dated 2019, stated that posting or linking to hacked content is prohibited. Under this policy,
links to a story by The New York Post about Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, were banned. But in October 2020,
Twitter changed its policy to say that it would no longer block hacked materials, after an outcry about how the company had handled the Post story. ‘Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix,’ wrote
then-CEO Jack Dorsey.”
—LO
