Twitter's feud with President Donald Trump escalated Friday after the social media platform accused one of his tweets of 'glorifying violence'
"Check out this absurd email Twitter just sent us," the White House said as it blasted out a screenshot of the automated response from the company. “The email we just received, presumably sent by a different team within Twitter, admits that the very tweet they are censoring does not violate any Twitter Rules. Yet the tweet is still censored.”
But a Twitter spokesperson told POLITICO that the company stands by its ruling against Trump's tweet, in which the president railed against unrest in Minnesota and remarked that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts." Twitter slapped aon the tweet after it appeared on Trump's personal account, and later did the same thing to a tweet from the White House's official account that cited his words verbatim.
The spokesperson said the automated email came in response to a specific complaint in which someone had accused the official White House account of violating a subset of Twitter’s rules — not necessarily regarding its policies on violent content. The email does not make clear what rule the complainant had cited.
The spokesperson said the company is required by law under certain jurisdictions, such as Germany, to alert users when Twitter has received and reviewed certain complaints against their accounts.
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