The Lincoln Project is facing an intense reaction and potentially serious legal problems after the anti-Trump group tweeted screenshots of private direct messages belonging to one of its co-founders – but Twitter doesn’t seem to care.
Jennifer Horn, who left the Lincoln Project last week amid the John Weaver scandal, has had a public feud with the anti-Trump group since her departure. But the Lincoln Project raised tensions on Thursday night with tweets that appeared to be an exchange she had with 19th News correspondent Amanda Becker.
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Lincoln Project co-founders Steve Schmidt, Rick Wilson, George Conway and John Weaver.
“Earlier this evening, we heard that @AmandaBecker from @ 19thnews was preparing to publish a defamation paper on the Lincoln Project with the help of @NHJennifer,” the Lincoln Project began a long discussion. “You hear a lot about successful journalism jobs, but you rarely get to see the story of its origin. Enjoy it.”
The tweets drew immediate condemnation, including from one of its co-founders, conservative lawyer George Conway.
“This looks like a violation of federal law and should be removed immediately,” warned Conway – who left the group last year.
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Horn herself later reacted to the controversy, alerting Twitter that Project Lincoln was not allowed to publish its private messages. “Hey, @Twitter @jack @TwitterSupport, I didn’t give consent,” wrote Horn.
It is not clear how the Lincoln Project obtained screenshots of Horn’s private messages or how, if it did, the group gained access to Horn’s Twitter account. The messages were eventually deleted.
The Lincoln Project did not respond to several Fox News questions, including why it decided to delete the Twitter topic and its responses to Horn and Conway’s reactions.
Twitter said the tweets were good when it came to the social media platform.
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“The currently referenced Tweets do not violate the Twitter rules“a spokesman told Fox News, noting that tweets are not considered a violation of Twitter hacked materials policy and they are not violating your private information policy.
Although Twitter appears to have allied itself with the anti-Trump group, the decision evokes memories of the social media platform’s controversial decision to censor a hard-hitting story about Hunter Biden before the 2020 elections, when the company cited the same “hacked content” policy “as the cause of the blackout.