As said above to Topaz_Eyes, if there's not misinformation, then it won't be subject to removal due to this rule. If you want to post verbatim copies of communications you've received from the OTW, then doing so is allowed under this rule. It is highly unlikely to receive a public response from the OTW due to the various privacy policies we have, but your comment would not be hidden (unless it violates a different rule).
Where we would consider it misinformation is if someone began posting factually untrue information, such posting as making false statements about content in emails from the OTW, or if they began erroneously assigning blame to specific individuals (particularly unrelated third parties) in a way that could incite harassment against that person.
The news post moderation team is structured in a way to promote transparency. Copies of all comments are sent to multiple parties, so they are more available for later review than was previously the case. Comment moderation decisions are all visible to the core news post moderation team and committee liaisons, who form a broad cross-sectional sample of the OTW with volunteers who are not only from many different committees, but are also of a variety of seniority within the OTW itself. Due to the way we expect liaison work to occur — with liaisons joining and leaving as necessary to cover posts for their committees — the decisions made by the team will be open to a broad amount of scrutiny from a changing set of volunteers within the OTW.
We're aware that a lack of transparency by the OTW has indeed been a problem and has lost us trust from many users. We're committed to earning it back. Both transparency and privacy are important to us. The balance between the two can be a difficult tightrope to walk, and it's likely there will still be times when users are unhappy with our decisions, but we're committed to maintaining both.
My feedback for this is that maybe the OTW should reconsider how their privacy policies are written. If someone posted misinformation, and anyone else saw it before it was taken down, and the OTW refuses to address the claim because of the privacy policy, it could weaken trust even more. (ie. If someone made a false claim about what was said in an email, and someone saw it and backed up the post elsewhere and spread it around, only for the news moderation team to remove the comment, it's not going to look like you are combatting misinformation, it's going to look like you are silencing criticism.)
Im not saying make everything public, of course not. Im just saying there should be some kind of mechanism or policy built that would allow you to address certain things in certain specific cases if certain criteria are met, etc. Especially in cases where the involved party(s) are publicly stating that the information can be released.
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