The announcement prompted concern that Twitter would ban newsworthy content, but Twitter says it doesn’t apply to tweets that are ‘in the public interest or add value to public discourse.’
Twitter has made a broad update to its private information policy that have some critics worried about enabling censorship. The company now says that « media of private individuals without the permission of the person(s) depicted » violates its private information policy. Those rules previously forbid sharing another person’s contact information, such as their physical location, without their consent. Now they apply to a much broader category of content. « Sharing personal media, such as images or videos, can potentially violate a person’s privacy, and may lead to emotional or physical harm, » Twitter says.
