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August 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Twitter executives apologized Tuesday for suspending the account of a journalist who was critical of NBC‘s Olympics coverage. Twitter also published a lengthy blog post by its general counsel addressing the microblogging network’s trust and safety procedures in general.
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British journalist Guy Adams had his account suspended Monday after he published a tweet reading, “The man responsible for NBC pretending the Olympics haven’t started yet is Gary Zenkel. Tell him what u think! Email: [email protected].”
Adams had previously been a harsh critic — one of many on Twitter — of NBC’s tape-delayed Olympics coverage.
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The suspension sparked a worldwide backlash against Twitter for censorship and overreacting to criticism of NBC, with which it has an Olympics partnership. The backlash intensified Tuesday after the Telegraph reported that Twitter had told NBC about the offending tweet — which didn’t technically appear to violate Twitter’s stated privacy rules — and helped it through the process of requesting a suspension.
SEE ALSO: Olympic Journalist Ban: Why Twitter Got It WrongAdams tweeted Tuesday that he had been reinstated, and soon after Twitter published its blog post titled, “Our approach to Trust Safety and private information.”
Twitter’s general counsel, Alex Macgillivray, then sent Adams this tweet:
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@guyadams Let me to add my personal apology for your suspension blog.twitter.com/2012/07/our-ap… is a longer post about private info our process.— Alex Macgillivray (@amac) July 31, 2012
Twitter’s media head, Chloe Sladden, also posted an apologetic message Tuesday with a link back to the explanatory blog post.
In that post, which does not mention Adams by name, Macgillivray admits that the issue of whether a corporate email address should be considered public or private is one Twitter needs to think through better.
“There are many individuals who may use their work email address for a variety of personal reasons — and they may not,” Macgillivray writes. “Our Trust and Safety team does not have insight into the use of every user’s email address, and we need a policy that we can implement across all of our users in every instance.”
Macgillivray also says Twitter’s trust and safety division — which ultimately is the team that suspends accounts — did not know the complaint against Adams had originally been flagged by Twitter itself.
“As I stated earlier, we do not proactively report or remove content on behalf of other users no matter who they are,” he writes. “This behavior is not acceptable and undermines the trust our users have in us. We should not and cannot be in the business of proactively monitoring and flagging content, no matter who the user is — whether a business partner, celebrity or friend.”
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This story originally published on Mashable here.
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