Opinion: Twitter's refusal to delete Trump's tweets about Lori Klausutis is disgraceful (via latimesopinion)
. The President’s tweet that suggests that Lori was murdered — without evidence — is a violation of Twitter’s community rules and terms of service. An ordinary user like me would be banished from the platform for such a tweet but I am only asking that these tweets be removed.”“We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
That statement is pathetic. I’m a longstanding Twitter user — having joined the service in March 2007 — and I understand that, like any giant social media platform, Twitter can be used for both good and ill. I know that Twitter has struggled with how to handle extraordinary cases like that of Trump, who
to issue false, misleading, deceitful and even hateful information. I also know that Twitter has taken steps toward better labeling of false and harmful content.Last year, Twitter said it would flag tweets by politicians who violate its rules, but as of this writing, it has yet to do so for Trump’s false statements about Klausitis. In March, it deleted posts by Presidents Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil about unproven coronavirus cures.
There is probable cause to ban Trump from the platform altogether. Such drastic action would no doubt please Trump’s many critics, but it would also probably generate a needless backlash and merely drive the conspiracy mongering into the dark web. The solution in this case is simple: Delete the demonstrably false tweets — which clearly violate Twitter’s own policies — and allow the family of Klausutis its privacy and its dignity. The fact that her widower should have to even make his anguished plea public — and the fact that Twitter has, so far, shrugged it off — speaks to the moral bankruptcy of our hyperpolarized age.
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