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Twitter CEO admits his mistake
Reporter : Luo Tingting / Editor: Deming / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2020/10/17/a102965049.html / Direct translation
Image : Jack, CEO of Overseas Social Media Twitter. Jack Dorsey admitted that Twitter was wrong to block the scandal of Biden and his son Hunter. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
Overseas social media Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that Twitter was wrong to block the scandal between Biden and his son Hunter. Recently, foreign media broke the news that Hunter’s "email door" scandal revealed that Biden had been involved in Hunter’s business activities in Ukraine. Twitter prohibits users from reposting relevant reports, and has been criticized by outsiders and requested an investigation into Twitter.
On October 17, Twitter CEO Jack. Jack Dorsey said on Twitter that it was wrong for Twitter to directly block news reports about Biden's son.
He said: "We have updated the Twitter policy and enforced it to fix this situation. Our goal is to try to join the ins and outs, and now we have the ability to do this."
"The New York Post" exclusively broke the news on October 14 of Biden's son Hunter. E-mail between Biden, and advisor to the board of directors of Ukrainian energy company Brisma. It was confirmed that Biden used his position to intervene in Hunter's business activities with Ukrainian energy companies. Biden has always denied this.
According to this 2015 email, Hunter has facilitated Vadim, an advisor to the Board of Directors of Brisma. Pozharski met with Biden, the father of the vice president. A year later, Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor investigating Brisma.
The U.S. election is approaching, and the scandal between Biden and his son Hunter can be described as another "October Surprise", causing a sensation. In an interview with Fox Business Network on the 15th, President Trump criticized Biden as a "completely corrupt politician."
Twitter prohibits users from reposting this exclusive report by Biden and his son, including links to articles. The accounts of Trump's re-election campaign, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany (Kayleigh McEnany), and the New York Post's tweets were all blocked and later removed.
Biden’s campaign team issued a statement to the media denying that Biden had ever met with Ukrainian energy company consultants.
On October 16, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), accusing Twitter of blocking the New York Post's revelations about the overseas transactions of Biden and his son.
The RNC stated in the complaint that Twitter is "a party actor, run by people who favor the Democrats," and it is using "company resources to actively support Joe Biden's campaign, which violates federal law."
RNC requires FEC to "investigate immediately" and "impose the highest penalty permitted by law."
RNC claimed that Twitter engaged in "the most brazen and unprecedented media suppression in American history, and its purpose of doing so was obviously to support the Biden campaign." Twitter "takes unprecedented action to suppress these articles from being shared on its platform."
“Twitter is acting as Biden’s media operator, taking proactive measures to block Biden’s negative news reports, prevent their spread, and silence those who try (spread).” The complaint read, “If Twitter is concerned about these service charges, Biden will undoubtedly be happy to pay high sums."
RNC said that Twitter CEO Jack. Jack Dorsey and other executives "are donors to the Democratic Party and other left-wing causes." 98.7% of the company's total political donations went to Democrats.
The complaint also pointed out that Twitter’s public policy director recently left the company to join Biden’s transition team, while the former press officer of the Democratic vice presidential candidate and Senator He Jinli is now serving as a senior communications manager on Twitter.
"Twitter blatantly favors and directly supports one presidential candidate rather than another. According to our campaign finance law, it should lead to appropriate financial consequences." RNC Chairman McDaniel told Fox News.
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on the 16th that a hearing will be held next week to force Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey come to testify. The CEO of Facebook, who also blocked Biden’s son scandal, Mark Zuckerberg, will also attend the hearing.
Twitter policy director Vijaya Gadde said in the evening of 16 October that the company has decided to revise its policy after receiving external responses regarding its earlier measures.
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Trump: Cancel Facebook and Twitter liability protection if they continue to do evil
Reporter : Ji Yun / Editor : Changqing / Publisher : Sound Of Hope / https://www.soundofhope.org/post/432922 / Direct translation
Since October 14, the "New York Post" broke the Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter After (Hunter Biden)’s e-mail about the alleged power-to-money transaction, Facebook and Twitter for two consecutive days censored posts about the report and restricted reposting. Trump said in this regard that Biden is favored by a large technology company and these social media must be changed, otherwise the protection given to them by relevant legal provisions will be cancelled.
Following Facebook and Twitter on the 14th to review and restrict the reposting of various posts about the New York Post report, the 15th continued to implement the review and restrict reposting, and the restricted reposting on the 15th once developed to restrict users Reposted the official website of the Republican Party of the House of Representatives, restricted the official Twitter of the Trump campaign team, and permanently closed the Twitter account of the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
The official website of the Republican Party of Congress was restricted because it reprinted a report on the Hunter scandal from the New York Post. McEnany’s account was closed because the account reprinted the "New York Post" report. "It’s not a temporary shutdown. When I was about to log in to my Twitter account, (the system) said that I was permanently banned (used). Basically, they used guns at me and said that if I don’t delete the report, (that’s it)" New York Post reports, I can’t access my account.” McEnany told Fox News.
The famous critic Adriana Cohen wrote in "Fox News": "If this kind of gangster censorship and interference in elections don't make people shudder, what will happen?" "The reality is that if this kind of arrogance that permeates Silicon Valley can censor the president’s Twitter-they often do-censor the reports of White House officials and major newspapers about presidential candidates during the election, then any American or media will not be immune. For a similar review.”
Fox News reported that President Trump told the public at the Pitt-Greenville Airport in North Carolina that Biden was caught for lying, "but now they are protected by the tech giants."
According to Article 230 of the “Communication Decency Act” implemented in 1996, “providers or users of interactive computer services shall not be regarded as publishers or publishers of information provided by other content providers. spokesman". This provision protects companies such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube from taking responsibility for content posted by third parties. Also by this regulation, these companies have grown into giant technology companies.
"We will cancel their 230 clauses unless they correct their evils." "Do you believe it or not? The Democrats will agree." Trump said.
The editorial department of English Epoch Times commented that this is the first time a social media company has directly acted on news from major US media. Moreover, the actions of Facebook and Twitter are arbitrary, without any good excuses, and their actions are inconsistent. Among them, Twitter went further than Facebook, openly blocking the Twitter accounts of the New York Post and the White House press secretary.
According to The Epoch Times, the rules of Twitter and Facebook are extremely dangerously vague, and they can even determine the content of the review based on their own feelings. If it is a publisher, they have the right to do so, but they do not recognize that they are, but only claim that they are an open platform and should be protected by Article 230 of the Communications Standards Act. But this time they have crossed the line so openly and have become publishers, so they should also abide by the publisher's rules.
In recent days, many lawmakers have condemned Facebook and Twitter, and the Federal Senate Judiciary Committee will also vote next Tuesday on whether to subpoena the CEO of Twitter. Senator Josh Howley, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted to the public on October 16 that he had asked the Federal Election Commission (FEC) two days ago to investigate whether Facebook and Twitter were involved in violations of the election law, and said, The Trump presidential campaign team should formally file a case on this.
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