BBC:
On Wednesday, Twitter prevented people from posting links to a New York Post story, warning those trying to click it that the link was “potentially unsafe”.
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Facebook also took action, limiting the report’s distribution in its news feed.
It said it had done this as part of a “standard process” to give third-party fact-checkers time to review the content and decide if it should be treated as misinformation.
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Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, acknowledged that it should have informed users as to why it had intervened sooner.
“Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL [website link] sharing via tweet or DM [direct message] with zero context as to why we’re blocking: unacceptable,” he tweeted.
The New York Post article contained screenshots of emails allegedly sent and received by Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son.
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The article focused on an email from April 2015, in which an adviser from a Ukrainian energy company apparently thanked Hunter Biden for inviting him to meet Joe Biden in Washington.