Will Twitter ban President Trump?
from the official White House account, which had reposted Trump's tweet. Earlier this week, Twitter provided a link to facts about mail-in voting alongside two Trump tweets alleging, without evidence, that the process invites fraud.
Those moves prompted Trump to accuse Twitter of regulating free speech and to propose stripping social media companies of their legal protection from liability for content on their platforms. "They’ve never added more context to his tweets before the tweet on mail balloting, and they’ve never shielded users from a tweet from Trump for glorifying violence before," said Brendan Nyhan, a Dartmouth College political science professor who has studied misinformation on social media.Until now,"they really have been the most laissez-faire of the platforms," Napoli said. But"this may be the new normal for them."Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy said in a statement that Trump's tweet on the situation in Minneapolis"violates our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today." "We've taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the Tweet given its relevance to ongoing matters of public importance," Kennedy said."As is standard with this notice, engagements with the Tweet will be limited. People will be able to Retweet with Comment, but will not be able to Like, Reply or Retweet it."that it would begin labeling tweets from leaders and politicians that might violate its rules but should be left up because it is in the public interest. In response to Twitter's action on Friday, the White House's official Twitter account criticized the social media company, saying Trump's tweet discouraged violence and that Twitter is hypocritical because it allows"terrorists, dictators, and foreign propagandists to abuse its platform."signed an executive order directing his administration to seek ways to overturn a federal law signed in 1996 that protects internet companies from facing legal liability for content on their platforms. Experts say it's extremely unlikely that he will achieve his goal without congressional action, which is similarly unlikely despite a degree of bipartisan discontent with Facebook, Twitter and Google. In addition to the Communications Decency Act, the First Amendment likely protects the social media companies from a government crackdown on their editorial decisions, experts say. Lawsuits accusing the companies of exercising bias have largely failed as there's no law preventing private entities from restricting how the public uses their digital platforms. “The First Amendment protects Twitter’s right to respond to the president’s speech, including by attaching warnings to tweets that glorify violence," Jameel Jaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, said in a statement."Fundamentally this dispute is about whether Twitter has the right to disagree with, criticize, and respond to the president. Obviously, it does." Still, the escalation of tension between Trump and the platform where he has built an extraordinarily influential presence, totaling more than 80 million followers, illustrates the challenges facing social media companies when it comes to policing their platforms. "All the social media companies are struggling to balance their obligations as a public forum with the commercial imperative to not be seen taking sides politically," Nyhan said."Striking that balance in the highly conflictual world of American politics is very difficult. I think it’s often paralyzed the social media companies."
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