Posted on 12/15/2020 4:43:57 PM PST by Enlightened1
President Trump will lose his current world-leader-status exemptions from Twitter’s policies after Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, exposing him to stricter moderation.
Twitter has confirmed that Trump’s personal account could face restrictions or even a ban if he continues proliferating what the platform considers “conspiracy theories” after becoming a private citizen, The Independent reported. (RELATED: Benjamin Netanyahu Removes Trump From His Twitter Profile Picture)
Twitter applies unique policies to world leaders and various public officials of major importance, leaving rule-infringing content unremoved if the public has a “clear” interest in being able to access such content, according to The Verge.
After noon, January 20, however, Trump will be ineligible for this protection and will have to follow the same guidelines as regular citizens, a Twitter spokesperson told Forbes on Thursday.
The spokesperson—speaking to Forbes on the condition of anonymity—stated that Twitter doesn’t have “special rules” for Trump, and refused to discuss or confirm any internal deliberations about the aftermath of banning Trump after he leaves the White House.
Having nearly 88.6 million followers, Trump ranks among Twitter’s top accounts, just under ex-president Obama, who boasts 125 million followers, the Independent reports.
Taking a jab at the outgoing president’s frequent use of the social media platform, incoming President-Elect Biden has previously written that when he becomes president, people will not have to be concerned about his tweets.
Censoring Trump after the coming inauguration would not be Twitter’s first act in content-restriction. In October, a month before the election, Twitter blocked the New York Post’s account after they refused to delete a tweet linking to a controversial story about Hunter Biden, Fox News reported.
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was among a group of GOP leaders who described the censorship as ‘election interference,’ according to New York Times.
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Yeah never mind the fact he is President of the United States and has access to information no one else has.
He can just go to Parler or another alternative media, or even start one up for himself and his followers. It’s Twitter’s loss all the way. In before the trolls and other silly nerds here.
Make Parler Great!
Nobody cares Twitter!
Agreed.
Wow, that’s very liberal, tolerant, and generous of them!
Don’t use Twitter. It’s a left wing media site .
Needs to be shut down as it’s against free speech.
It pushes socialism and is anti American.
“conspiracy theorist”
Somebody who doesn’t accept the official story.
Tremendous evidence pouring in on voter fraud. There has never been anything like this in our Country!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2020
What a $hit Netanyahu turned out to be.
Twitter is for twits.
I don’t know why he didn’t go to Parler months ago. Screw twitter.
Yup.
An "open forum" supporting "democracy and free speech" has become the poster girl for censorship, leftie lunacy, and nonstop gaslighting by its management. What a farrago of laughable BS it is.
Since 2005 I've had zero interest in Twatter, only opened an account recently to follow some foreign affairs matters.
If they make good on further censorship, losing them will be no loss whatsoever. They just barely reached the plus sign anyway.
What’s Twatter?
But Twitter is not an editor?
Maybe Trump can start a Trumpter social media group and the posts can be called Trumps rather than Tweets. lol
Twitter will have been seized by then for violating EO13848. They’ve been collecting money from foreign agents to disrupt our election. Twitter is Kaput...
Boom! Parler...
Either/or should have already happened. Every post he puts on Twitter results in some sort of notice of inaccuracy banner. The day he couldn’t or wouldn’t get that removed is the day he should have left.
Definitely he can join Parler. And Twitter can die like Fox News.
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