The New York Times getting panned for its Mara Gay defense, a case of mistaken identity at Vice President Harris’ press conference, and a White House press corps flight being delayed by cicadas round out today’s top media headlines
Some critics are pointing to another example of Big Tech applying a double standard after Twitter allowed ProPublica to share its story of a secret trove of Internal Revenue Service data on some of the world s wealthiest people.
While Twitter blocked users from sharing a New York Post story on published emails allegedly from Hunter Biden s laptop, ProPublica did not face similar consequences despite sharing what could be illegally leaked private information. IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig told lawmakers Tuesday that an investigation is underway to see if it was illegally obtained, such as from an IRS employee or someone who hacked the tax agency.
Twitter is drawing backlash over its apparent inconsistencies as it allows an article detailing the secret tax records of billionaires to spread freely after censoring articles about Hunter Biden s laptop.
ProPublica refused to disclose how it obtained the tax data published on Tuesday, saying only said it was given the IRS data in raw form by a party it did not identify.
In October, Twitter blocked users from sharing a New York Post article revealing damaging information from Hunter s laptop, which had been abandoned in a repair store.
The social media site said at the time that the article violated its policy against publishing private information, as well as its prohibition on sharing hacked materials.