Twitter CEO admits suppressing NY Post’s Hunter Biden ‘crack and Ukraine’ scoop was ‘unacceptable’ as Trump bashes sites
TWITTER CEO Jack Dorsey admitted on Wednesday night that his social media company’s action blocking links to the Hunter Biden "crack, sex and Ukraine" email scoop from the New York Post was “unacceptable.”
Dorsey’s apologetic tweet came nearly two hours after President Donald Trump slammed Twitter and Facebook for reportedly censoring the Post’s Wednesday front page story.
“And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable.”
Dorsey quote tweeted an earlier post by Twitter Safety stating: “We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we’ve taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were first Tweeted this morning.”
Twitter users reported issues when attempting to share a link to the Post’s report that Biden was seen "smoking crack during a " in a video revealed along with emails that allegedly showed he did introduce a Ukraine executive to his dad Joe, when he was vice president.
Screenshots showed that McEnany got a message stating that her tweet violated Twitter’s rules.
Stone tweeted: "While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact-checked by Facebook’s third-party fact-checking partners.
A Twitter spokesperson told : "In line with our Hacked Materials Policy, as well as our approach to blocking URLs, we are taking action to block any links to or images of the material in question on Twitter."
Senator Ted Cruz fumed on Twitter about the restrictions, writing: "TWITTER HAS DISABLED THE LINK to the @nypost story. @jack what the hell?? I don’t know if the allegations are true—Qs that deserve to be answered. It’s a serious news publication raising evidence of corruption at the highest levels. @twitter shouldn’t act as Biden’s PR team.
A spokesperson for Joe Biden denied any such meeting in a statement on Wednesday.
Trump claims Hunter's job was instrumental in Biden pressuring the Ukrainian government into firing prosecutors Viktor Shokin who he claims was investigating Burisma.
The allegations are disputed - with officials claiming Shokin was actually fired for failing to investigation corruption.
Ukrainian prosecutors also said earlier this year there was no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hunter Biden.
In a statement on Wednesday, Biden spokesperson Andrew Bates hit back at allegations detailed in The Post.
"Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as 'not legitimate' and political by a GOP colleague have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official U.S. policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing," Bates said.
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"Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath.
Bates added: "Moreover, we have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place.