Twitter Up Trump Fight, Marks Tweet as Violent After Executive Order | Observer
It took Twitter three and a half years to take any action against President Donald Trump’s incendiary tweets from the White House. It then took just a few days for the social media platform to do it again.
Earlier this week, Twitter appended a fact check to one of Trump’s tweets about mail-in voting. On Friday morning, the company went further, blocking one of his tweets calling for the shooting of protestors in Minneapolis, where violence has broken out in the wake of the police murder of an unarmed, unthreatening black man named George Floyd. Trump finished his tweet by writing “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” a quote from an infamous Miami police chief who blatantly embraced the violent policing of the black community.
Twitter didn’t block Trump’s tweet, but covered it with a warning and made it ineligible for retweets or responses.
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