The Lincoln project faces intense setbacks and potentially major legal issues after the harassed anti-Trump group tweeted screenshots of private instant messages from one of its co-founders, but Twitter does not seem to be thinking about it.
Jennifer Horn, who left the Lincoln project last week amid the John Weaver scandal, has had a public conversation with the anti-Trump group since her departure. But the Lincoln project heightened tensions Thursday night with tweets that were apparently an exchange of words with Amanda Becker, 19th News correspondent.
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Lincoln Project co-founders Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Conway and John Weaver.
“Earlier tonight, we realized that @AmandaBecker of @ 19thnews was preparing to publish a smear on the Lincoln project with the help of @NHJennifer,” the Lincoln project began a long thread. “You hear a lot of talk about hits in journalism, but rarely do you see their origin story. Enjoy.”
The tweets were immediately condemned, among others by one of its co-founders, the Conservative lawyer George Conway.
“It looks like a violation of federal law and must be removed immediately,” warned Conway, who left the group last year.
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Horn herself later responded to the controversy and warned Twitter that the Lincoln project did not have permission to publish her private messages. “Hey @ Twitter @ jack @ Twitter Support I did not give permission,” Horn wrote.
It is unclear how the Lincoln project obtained snapshots of Horn’s private messages, or how the group, if any, gained access to Horn’s Twitter account. The messages were eventually deleted.
The Lincoln project did not respond to Fox News’ multiple queries, including why it chose to remove the Twitter thread and its responses to Horn and Conway’s responses.
Twitter stated that the tweets were just good as far as the social media platform is concerned.
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“The tweets referred to are currently not in conflict with the Twitter Rules, “a spokesman told Fox News, noting that the tweets were not considered a Twitter violation policy on cut material and it does not conflict with the private information policy.
While Twitter seems to have joined the anti-Trump group, the decision evokes memories of the social media platform’s controversial decision to censor a damning story about Hunter Biden ahead of the 2020 election, when the company quoted ‘hacked content’ policy. as the cause of the eclipse.