As we told you earlier, tweets from President Trump’s Twitter account (as well as the White House’s account) have prompted the social media company to slap a warning label (they call it a “public interest notice”) on them:
UPDATE: Twitter is now hiding the 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts' tweet from @WhiteHouse https://t.co/PDjrxbpF5F
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 29, 2020
Twitter is really poking the bear now. https://t.co/oaYNfabV0N
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) May 29, 2020
FCC chairman Ajit Pai asked a question that helps point out the corner Twitter has painted itself into:
Serious question for @Twitter: Do these tweets from Supreme Leader of Iran @khamenei_ir violate "Twitter Rules about glorifying violence"? pic.twitter.com/oEkCC8UzFV
— Ajit Pai (@AjitPaiFCC) May 29, 2020
Will Twitter comment? Time will tell.
Man has a point… https://t.co/tlWfVT3uo2
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) May 29, 2020
Yep.
It'll be kind of funny if Twitter are cornered into banning Khamenei because of bad Tweets by Trump.
— neontaster (@neontaster) May 29, 2020
This was inevitably where this would go. Dipping its toe into fact checking was always a selective and subjective exercise that could never be uniformly applied. Forcing this platform to police all its content will be the end of it. https://t.co/5U33BFxN5P
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) May 29, 2020
Unreal.
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