Monday, February 06, 2017

Twitters allows accounts to remain active after Twitter users advocate for assassination of Trump

Jack Hadfield reports at Breitbart,
According to research search from the social media analytics company Dataminr, over 12,000 tweets have called for the assassination of President Trump since he took office on January 20th.
Here are just a few found after a quick search on Twitter:

...Twitter has said in an email statement that “the Twitter Rules prohibit threats of violence, and we will suspend accounts violating that policy.” Whilst these may not be direct threats, the rules also clearly state that the “promotion” of violence is also forbidden. Yet many thousands of tweets and accounts remain active, in a direct contradiction to Twitter’s former statement.
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