I'm sure @Twitter will apply this fairly across the board & won't use it to target conservatives. ???
Big Tech is so determined to stop @realDonaldTrump's reelection that they're willing to kill what made their platforms popular in the first place (free speech!) to stop him. https://t.co/MiKFN8wak9
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) June 27, 2019
And reduce the reach of the tweets. Obviously this has nothing to do with the upcoming election…
Via Daily Wire:
On Thursday, Twitter announced it has changed its policy and will label President Trump’s tweets if Twitter deems them violative of Twitter’s rules.
Twitter said any verified political candidates and government officials with more than 100,000 followers can be targeted, according to The Washington Post.
In order to view the labeled tweets, users will have to click on a screen that says, “The Twitter Rules about abusive behavior apply to this Tweet. However, Twitter has determined it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain available.”
Twitter wrote in a blog post:
Our highest priority is to protect the health of the public conversation on Twitter, and an important part of that is ensuring our rules and how we enforce them are easy to understand. In the past, we’ve allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules to remain on Twitter because they were in the public’s interest, but it wasn’t clear when and how we made those determinations. To fix that, we’re introducing a new notice that will provide additional clarity in these situations, and sharing more on when and why we’ll use it.