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Twitter may Tag Rule-Breaking Trump Tweets

posted by chromas on Friday March 29 2019, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the goose-in-one-hand-is-worth-taking-a-gander dept.

martyb writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday March 29 2019, @05:06PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 29 2019, @05:06PM (#821895) Journal

    Yep. No Twitter. No Facebook. I don't read them. Look at them. Wonder what they say. I just don't care. They are not mediums I have any respect for -- regardless who uses them.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Friday March 29 2019, @05:36PM (3 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Friday March 29 2019, @05:36PM (#821912) Homepage
    Probably full of iliterates who don't know the plural of 'medium'! ;-)
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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Friday March 29 2019, @05:59PM

      by RS3 (6367) on Friday March 29 2019, @05:59PM (#821936)

      Mediums is boring. Flat-outs is trending!

    • (Score: 4, Touché) by DannyB on Friday March 29 2019, @06:29PM (1 child)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday March 29 2019, @06:29PM (#821957) Journal

      Your probably write about that.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @07:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 29 2019, @07:07PM (#821978)

        I think you meant "prolly"