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We are appreciative of our partnerships with nonprofit groups around the world that help to ensure we are sharing the latest and most helpful resources in our #ThereisHelp prompts.

#ThereIsHelp prompts connect people on Twitter to helpful info when searching certain terms related to domestic and gender-based violence. This month, we’ve expanded the feature to five additional countries, making them available in a total of 24 markets and 17 languages.

Data has shown an increase in cases of violence against women amid COVID-19. To ensure that people on Twitter can access helpful resources in times of need, we have continued to expand our #ThereIsHelp prompts.

On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and every day, we all have a role to play in championing gender equality and spreading awareness on domestic and gender-based violence and other issues disproportionately impacting women.

This means that because a specific @nypost enforcement led us to update the Hacked Materials Policy, we will no longer restrict their account under the terms of the previous policy and they can now Tweet again.

In response, we’re updating our practice of not retroactively overturning prior enforcement. Decisions made under policies that are subsequently changed & published can now be appealed if the account at issue is a driver of that change. We believe this is fair and appropriate.

Our policies are living documents. We're willing to update and adjust them when we encounter new scenarios or receive important feedback from the public. One such example is the recent change to our Hacked Materials Policy and its impact on accounts like the New York Post.

Latest updates on our approach to hacked materialshttps://twitter.com/vijaya/status/1316923549236551680 …

We recognize that Twitter is just one of many places where people can find information online, and the Twitter Rules are intended to protect the conversation on our service, and to add context to people’s experience where we can.

We know we have more work to do to provide clarity in our product when we enforce our rules in this manner. We should provide additional clarity and context when preventing the Tweeting or DMing of URLs that violate our policies.

Commentary on or discussion about hacked materials, such as articles that cover them but do not include or link to the materials themselves, aren’t a violation of this policy. Our policy only covers links to or images of hacked material themselves.

We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we’ve taken with respect to two NY Post articles that were first Tweeted this morning.