Mediagazer: NYT will never be able to uniformly enforce its social media behavior policy and should remove the language of journalists being “perceived as biased” from it (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)

6:00 PM ET, January 26, 2021

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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

NYT will never be able to uniformly enforce its social media behavior policy and should remove the language of journalists being “perceived as biased” from it — Lauren Wolfe made no ripples last May when she started as a freelance editor at the New York Times.

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