Twitter changes policy on hacking after Biden censorship expose fiasco

Tech giantTwitter has annoucedchanges in itshacking policy after trying to burya controversial story about US presidential Democratic candidate Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden.

Twitterpolicy chief Vijaya Gadde tweeted that the company has made the decision after receivingfeedback on its enforcement earlier.

Twitter andFacebook hadlimited the online distribution of a New York Post article on Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Facebook reduced how often the story shows up in users' news feeds and elsewhere on the platform, an action spokesman Andy Stone said the company takes temporarily pending fact checker review "if we have signals that a piece of content is false."

The New York Post story statedthat Hunter Biden tried introducing a top executive of a Ukrainian firm to his father Joe Biden. Hunter Biden worked for this firm.

Spokesperson for Biden campaign defended Joe Biden and Hunter Biden by saying that there was "no wrongdoing" on part of Joe Biden. He added that New York Post never reached out to Biden campaign for their response on this.

US President Donald Trump had congratulated The New York post and condemned the social media titans for the step.

"So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of “Smoking Gun” emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the@NYPost. It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician. REPEAL SECTION 230!!!" tweeted Trump.

However, despite the changes in the 'hacking materials' policy,the New York Post story would still be blocked.

A company spokesman said the stories would still be blocked for "violating the rules on private personal information."

Twitter's Chief ExecutiveJack Dorsey saidblocking New York Post article without context was wrong.