Trump's tweet threatening D.C. protesters with 'serious force' has been hidden by Twitter for 'abusive behavior'
. “Autonomous Zone” is a reference to the Seattle neighborhood that protesters have called the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.”
“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about abusive behavior. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” Twitter’s warning label on the Trump tweet reads.Nancy Pelosi: Ripping Up Trump's State of the Union Speech Was 'the Least I Could Do'
It’s the second time Twitter hid a tweet by Trump in less than a month for violating its policies. On May 29, the social network hid Trump’s post — and applied a warning in front of it — in which he called Minneapolis demonstrators “THUGS” and said about the unrest in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, “Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
For political figures like Trump, Twitter’s policy is to leave in place tweets that would be violations for regular users in cases which the company considers them to be in the “public interest.” In June 2019, Twitter announced a policy under which tweets by political figures that violate its regular policies would be displayed with a warning notice in front of tweetsIn the past few weeks, Trump’s social-media behavior increasingly has tested the bounds of what Twitter and Facebook say they disallow.
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