Twitter CEO Admits Blocking NY Post Stories Was Wrong, Changes Hacked-Content Policy

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NEW YORK -- What does the theater community desperately need during a time of social distancing? An actor who can play multiple characters onstage every night.

NEW YORK -- Bruce Springsteen — who released his 20th album “Letter to You” last week — discusses trending on Twitter, his first guitar, his first concert and the pain of the pandemic in outtakes from a recent interview with The Associated Press. Read the interview here.—————————HOUSE OF BLUESBruce Springsteen had plans to tour his new album next year, but he knows that may not happen because of the coronavirus pandemic.“At 70 you realize there are X amount of shows left.

50 Cent really doesn’t want his taxes raised.

You’ll be hard-pressed to find Anthony Weiner on a ballot again. The disgraced ex-congressman guaranteed in an interview on Monday that his comeback won’t extend to politics.

report in the New York Times. The report says the story was written primarily by Bruce Golding, who didn’t want his byline on the piece because of “credibility” concerns.Not only that, according to the report, but one of the reporters whose name did appear on the story about the Democratic nominee’s son only learned she’d been credited after publication.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorAMC Entertainment will resume operations at a dozen theaters in New York State October 23 in accordance with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent, welcome reopening announcement over the weekend that, however, still excluded New York City and a handful of other counties.NY is “vital to the theatrical exhibition industry,” the world’s largest chain said Monday.With the reopening of New York, AMC will be operational in 44 of the 45 states where it has theatres.

The tweets are running the asylum. Twitter’s senior executives have a long history of anti-Trump hatred, a Post review of dozens of accounts of top employees found.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTwitter is keeping itself in front of the political firing line by inconsistently applying policy to a series of unconfirmed reports by the New York Post about Joe Biden’s son Hunter — moves Republicans have slammed as censorship and election interference.The social network initially banned the Post’s story Wednesday about Hunter Biden’s alleged attempts to influence his father, Joe Biden, to try to shut down a probe into Ukrainian energy company Burisma and

Twitter said late Thursday it was changing its policy on hacked content after an outcry about its handling of an unverified political story that prompted cries of censorship from the right. The social media company will no longer remove hacked material unless it’s directly shared by hackers or those working with them, the company’s head of legal, policy, trust and safety, Vijaya Gadde, said in a Twitter thread.

So, what’s changing? 1. We will no longer remove hacked content unless it is directly shared by hackers or those acting in concert with them2.

I intend to move forward with an @FCC rulemaking to clarify the meaning of #Section230.Read my full statement below. pic.twitter.com/LhUz5XMdSC— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) October 15, 2020Pai’s decision comes a day after Twitter blocked users from sharing a “potentially harmful” New York Post report on Hunter Biden, son of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.

Ted Johnson The chairman of the FCC issued a statement on Thursday saying that he plans to move forward with efforts to clarify Section 230, the provision of a 1996 law that gives immunity to internet companies like Facebook and Twitter over the way that they moderate content.Chairman Ajit Pai issued a statement as President Donald Trump and his allies have blasted Twitter and Facebook for steps they have taken to restrict the sharing of a New York Post story on Hunter Biden.

Also Read: Twitter Blocks Users From Sharing 'Potentially Harmful' New York Post-Hunter Biden ReportTwitter pointed to the hacked materials policy, which says users cannot “directly distribute content obtained through hacking that contains private information,” on Wednesday when it blocked users from sharing the New York Post report. The platform, when users went to share the story, sent a warning the story was “potentially harmful” and could not be posted.

Facebook and Twitter showed Wednesday that they "want to rig an election," Senate Judiciary Committee member Josh Hawley, R-Mo., told "The Ingraham Angle" after the social media giants censored or blocked dissemination of a bombshell New York Post report on Hunter Biden. "It's basically Big Tech versus democracy," Hawley told host Laura Ingraham.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook and Twitter put measures in place Wednesday to limit distribution of a New York Post story based on emails — which the paper claimed were supplied by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani — purportedly revealing evidence of influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s son Hunter.According to the Post’s story, Hunter Biden in 2015 introduced his father, then VP in the Obama administration, to a top exec at Ukrainian energy company Burisma after Hunter joined the company’s

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday blamed President Donald Trump for convincing people that the governor’s controversial March 25 nursing home mandate was responsible for 6,600 deaths The Democratic governor made the comments during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” discussing the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and how his state plans to handle it in the future.

Also Read: Debate Moderator Steve Scully Says His Twitter Account Was Hacked Amid 'Never Trumper' ClaimsEarlier on Wednesday, the Post shared a trove of emails it said belonged to the younger Biden.

Ted Johnson Twitter and Facebook are restricting the reach of a New York Post story about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, concluding that the claims in the story need to be fact-checked or come from sources with suspicious origins.The story was billed as an expose that was splashed on the front page of the Post on Wednesday, alleging that Biden’s son leveraged his father’s position as vice president to boost his business with a Ukrainian gas company.