Twitter has backed down, allowing the New York Post to tweet again.
Angela Lang/CNETTwitter has reversed course on its decision to lock the New York Post account, saying Friday that it's allowing the publication to tweet again. The change in stance comes after Twitter altered its Hacked Materials Policy, which is the policy that initially led the company to restrict the New York Post account.
The social media platform retroactively applied the changed policy to the newspaper's account, Twitter said in a tweet.
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"This means that because a specific @nypost enforcement led us to update the Hacked Materials Policy, we will no longer restrict their account under the terms of the previous policy and they can now tweet again ," Twitter said. The company called its policies "living documents" that are updated based on feedback and new situations.
" We're baaaaaaack," NY Post tweeted , alongside an image of a newspaper front page with a blue Twitter bird flying out of a cage.
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The Post's story was based on emails purportedly obtained from a laptop Hunter Biden left in a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019.
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