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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by bigbubba on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:07PM (#24899916)
Would twitter have blocked NYTimes in response to Walter Duranty or Judith Miller's reporting? Denying genocide or uncritically spreading pro-war propaganda seem comparably egregious to anything the NYPost has done.
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Re:Twitter still hasn't unlocked the New York Post's account by rbanffy on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:02PM (#24902519)
If the NYT's reporting were obviously a falsification, yes. Twitter would probably block them as well.

At the time it wasn't obvious. In those days information traveled much more slowly, with many more intermediaries than today and was, therefore, much less reliable.

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