Twitter’s inaction on ProPublica s story based on the “illegal” leak of confidential tax information of the nation’s wealthiest people comes after the social media network outright blocked users in the run-up to the 2020 election from sharing a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Pictured: Twitter s headquarters in San Francisco. (Photo: Kim Kulish/Corbis via Getty Images)
Twitter took no action on a ProPublica story published Tuesday based on the “illegal” leak of confidential tax information of the nation’s wealthiest people that was shared widely on its platform.
Twitter’s inaction on the tax leak story comes after the social media network outright blocked users in the run-up to the 2020 election from sharing a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop for violating its Hacked Materials Policy, despite there being no evidence that the Post obtained the laptop as a result of a hack.
Carl Icahn, who is ranked the 40th wealthiest American with an estimated fortune of $14.9 billion, did not pay any federal income tax in 2016 and 2017.
New disclosures of U.S. taxpayers' confidential information are motivated by Democratic Party politics and the goal of raising taxes, say taxpayer advocates.
The sentence comes two months after another man was ordered to serve 33 months in prison for managing the chat room where the crimes were organized.
John Cameron Denton speaks to the crew of a 2018 PBS Frontline documentary examining American hate groups in Texas. (Image courtesy of PBS Frontline)
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) A Texas man known as the former leader of a neo-Nazi extremist group was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in prison for making fake emergency calls targeting journalists, minorities and elected officials.
According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, John Cameron Denton, 27, of Montgomery, Texas, ran a local branch of the Atomwaffen Division, an international white supremacist group linked to arms dealing, murder and other crimes.