Posted on 06/27/2019 9:46:06 AM PDT by Stravinsky
New York (CNN Business) - Twitter plans to place a disclaimer on future tweets from world leaders that break its rules but which Twitter decides are in the "public interest," the company said in a blog post Thursday. This policy change could face its most prominent test in President Trump. Trump has repeatedly tested Twitter's community standards with his regular tirades on the platform and some of the president's tweets have run afoul of Twitter's rules.
Twitter (TWTR) has in the past allowed tweets from Trump and other world leaders to remain online, even though they broke the company's rules, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed to CNN Business, because it believes the tweets are in the public interest.
But putting a disclaimer on one of Trump's tweets would almost certainly bring a firestorm of criticism down on Twitter's head. Republicans in Washington, including Trump, often claim without real evidence that technology companies are biased against conservatives. Such a disclaimer on a Trump tweet, even if he had clearly violated Twitter's rules, would provoke a new cycle of such complaints at a time when Washington is increasingly investigating Big Tech over concerns about antitrust and privacy.
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Money down now - they’ll ban Trump from twitter next September.
“often claim without real evidence”
Next up on CNN: RUSSIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tweetersters puts on its knee pads
Agree !!! Or soon after
Just read they will also deprioritize. That means Trumps tweets won’t be shared.
This is disgusting fascist behavior.
Time to shut them all down - these are unAmerican companies and not interested in discourse or liberty.
Stop using them.
We’ll soon be living in a communist totalitarian country.
Free Speech is obviously a bigger problem than I thought.
If all Opinion must be fact based, the Democrat Party should be disbanded.
SCREW Twitter!
I’m glad I never signed up for any of those sites. I wouldn’t have lasted anyway. Probably would have been banned my first day.
Not if I’m still alive
Demonrats cannot debate ideas. Demonrats have no ideas except to shut down free speech and take away firearms from law abiding citizens. Illegals and criminals receive. FREE firearms. Wake up Wake Up. WAKE UP
It’s long past time to designated these guys as publishers, not platforms, so they can be sued into oblivion.
behaving as a publisher.
And because the leaders of the nations of the world will f*** you up if you piss them off!
Twitter is a coward that has no real principles, and they are just trying to dress up their cowardice at taking on world leaders as some sort of positive thing.
No, Twitter, you don't mess with Trump or any other world leader because you know it will have bad consequences for you!
Probably a great read
They drown you 24/7 in their Trump Russia collusion hoax which had no real evidence. They don’t see the irony or they simply don’t care because they are only objective in favor of their political biases.
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