Twitter accused of suppressing DNC Wikileaks story
By Rudy Takala (@RudyTakala) ? 7/22/16 11:28 PM ?Updated: 07/23/16 3:15 PM
Washington Examiner
Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
Friday afternoon, users noted, "#DNCLeaks" was trending, with more than 250,000 tweets about it on the platform. By Friday evening, it vanished completely from the site's "trending" bar for at least 20 minutes. It returned as "#DNCLeak" after users erupted, though it was too late to quell their rage.
Gabe @gacman0
#DNCLeaks was trending #1. @twitter pulls it from the list completely, gets called on it, then replaces it with #DNCleak to cover themselves
8:06 PM - 22 Jul 2016
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Marzipan Wiley @marzipanwiley
@nytimes Meanwhile, #wikileaks released 20k DNC emails and #DNCLeaks abruptly stops trending on Twitter but nothing to see here, right?
9:20 PM - 22 Jul 2016
By Rudy Takala (@RudyTakala) ? 7/22/16 11:28 PM ?Updated: 07/23/16 3:15 PM
Washington Examiner
Twitter lit up Friday night with allegations that it tried to suppress news that secret-leaking website Wikileaks exposed thousands of emails obtained from the servers of the Democratic National Committee.
Friday afternoon, users noted, "#DNCLeaks" was trending, with more than 250,000 tweets about it on the platform. By Friday evening, it vanished completely from the site's "trending" bar for at least 20 minutes. It returned as "#DNCLeak" after users erupted, though it was too late to quell their rage.
Gabe @gacman0
#DNCLeaks was trending #1. @twitter pulls it from the list completely, gets called on it, then replaces it with #DNCleak to cover themselves
8:06 PM - 22 Jul 2016
2,268 2,268 Retweets
2,073 2,073 likes
The New York Times
✔ @nytimes
In 2013, Sen. Tim Kaine delivered a speech on immigration on the Senate floor entirely in Spanish http://nyti.ms/2a70K37
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Marzipan Wiley @marzipanwiley
@nytimes Meanwhile, #wikileaks released 20k DNC emails and #DNCLeaks abruptly stops trending on Twitter but nothing to see here, right?
9:20 PM - 22 Jul 2016
