New York Post Locked Out of Twitter Account for Two Weeks Over Refusing To Delete Hunter Biden Laptop Posts

The New York Post, one of the country’s largest newspapers, has been locked out of its Twitter account by the tech giant for two weeks.

Twitter locked the outlet out of its account for publishing and sharing stories about materials from a laptop that purportedly belonged to Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Emma-Jo Morris, the New York Post’s deputy politics editor and one of the two journalists with a byline on the stories about the laptop and its hard drive, documented the timeline in a tweet.

“The Democratic nominee for President is calling this story a ‘Russian disinformation campaign.’ Twitter has revoked NY Post account access for 2 weeks over it,” she wrote.

The Democratic nominee for President is calling this story a "Russian disinformation campaign." Twitter has revoked NY Post account access for 2 weeks over it. pic.twitter.com/LcQ5diemyb

— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) October 28, 2020

The Washington Examiner has repeatedly reached out to Twitter to see if there are ongoing deliberations about the social media company changing its enforcement decision now that the site’s guidelines on hacked materials have changed.

Twitter has not responded to most requests for comment but has said on occasion that it is not retroactively changing its enforcement decisions and is requiring the outlet to delete old tweets containing the story that it said were in violation of its old policies. (Read more from “New York Post Locked Out of Twitter Account for Two Weeks Over Refusing To Delete Hunter Biden Laptop Posts” HERE)

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