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Twitter may Tag Rule-Breaking Trump Tweets:
Twitter said Thursday it could start tagging tweets from newsworthy figures such as US President Donald Trump that break its rules, while stopping short of deleting them.
The one-to-many messaging platform used extensively by Trump to fire off comments, some of them inflammatory, said it is exploring ways to add context to tweets considered to be of legitimate public interest but which violate its terms of service.
"Twitter is exploring ways to provide more context around tweets that violate our rules, but are newsworthy and in the legitimate public interest," the company said in an emailed statement.
[...]Twitter's trust and safety chief Vijaya Gadde [...] said during an on-stage interview at a Washington Post technology forum in San Francisco that Twitter was looking at ways to "put some context around it so people are aware that that content is actually a violation of our rules and it is serving a particular purpose in remaining on the platform."
Tweets that go too far, such as threatening someone with violence, would be removed no matter who posts them, according to Gadde.
The rules don't have to be followed if you are "newsworthy", but the rest of us have to abide by them. Got it.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @01:00PM (4 children)
So, if Trump suddenly says: "Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" such a tweet would be deleted?
(Score: 2, Touché) by shrewdsheep on Friday March 29 2019, @01:52PM
It would be tagged with "Rocket Man".
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday March 29 2019, @02:43PM
This is the 21st century.
The government needs to work with Twitter to modernize government systems so that it becomes possible to issue nuclear launch orders via Twitter.
As a safety measure it should only be possible to do this while FoxNews is also playing.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Friday March 29 2019, @03:09PM
If its good enough for Ghandi [medium.com], it's good enough for Trump?
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Monday April 01 2019, @08:58PM
Deleted, no... but if they could start tagging them #fakenews when they are, oh... gloriously ironic!