Trump vs Twitter: conflict escalates

30 May 2020, 05:49 | Policy
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Twitter accused US President Donald Trump of violating social media rules prohibiting the glorification of violence.

The controversial entry was not deleted, but hidden and replaced by the words: " However, Twitter decided that in the public interest, this tweet could remain in the public domain "

By clicking on “View” to the right of this message, the user will see Donald Trump’s original tweet.

Users cannot like, reply to, or share Trump’s tweet without comment. The ability to retweet it with a comment remains.

During a protest rally in Minneapolis following the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement, a mob seized and burned a police station.

The president wrote that he could send the National Guard to Minneapolis if the unrest did not stop there, and added afterwards: " It was these words that the social network considered an excuse or glorification of violence.

“This tweet violates our policy regarding the glorification of violence in the light of the historical context of the phrase, its connection with acts of violence and the risk that it could provoke similar actions today,” the Twitter administration said in a statement..

The historical context referenced by Twitter is that Trump quoted a phrase widely used in America, said in the late 1960s by Miami police chief Walter Hadley ("

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Accompany the notes with your warnings instead of deleting them if they belong to large public figures - official Twitter policy from mid-2019. But she still hasn’t applied to Donald Trump..

The president posted the same text on Facebook.. There it is available without comment..



The current incident is another step in the conflict between the White House and Twitter.

A few hours earlier, the president signed an executive decree weakening the legal immunity of social networks.. It does not have immediate power, but it gives rise to a process that could ultimately have serious legal consequences..

On May 27, “Twitter” marked Trump’s entry about the possibility of fraud in the voting by mail as unreliable. The president in response accused social networks of violating freedom of speech.

Source: BBC.




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