Exhibit 1144

Distribution of hacked material policy (Twitter Help Center, version of March 2019)

Exhibit 1144 · Platform policy

Distribution of hacked material policy (Twitter Help Center, version of March 2019)

Under this policy, you can’t directly distribute hacked materials.

The rule Twitter applied on 14 October 2020. It prohibits directly distributing content obtained through hacking that contains private information, may endanger people or contains trade secrets, including posting it and linking to it on other sites, and says discussing a hack or sharing press coverage of one is allowed without including private information. Twitter changed the policy in October 2020 after the block (Dorsey testimony; Roth statement).

Source: Twitter, Inc.
Date: March 2019 (Wayback capture of 17 July 2019)
Quoted from: Policy page, 'What is in violation of this policy?'
Grade: Primary record
Document: http://web.archive.org/web/20190717143909/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding INF-4.4: Primary record Twitter's chief executive told the Senate Judiciary Committee on 17 November 2020 that Twitter's 2018 hacked-materials policy was informed by conversations with the U.S. government. Twitter's head of Site Integrity stated in a declaration to the Federal Election Commission that Twitter's Trust and Safety leadership decided on 14 October 2020 to enforce the policy against the New York Post articles.