directed at Muslims, a Twitter spokesperson said the change was not inspired by any specific world leader. The spokesperson also said the policy will not be retroactive and will apply only to tweets from verified accounts of government officials or candidates for public office with more than 100,000 followers.
Twitter has faced heavy criticism for uneven enforcement of its own rules when it comes to world leaders like Trump, whose tweets sometimes appear to violate the company’s policies, but are allowed to remain on the site because of their newsworthiness. The company's leadership has repeatedly dodged questions around the issue.
“I’m not going to talk about particulars,” Dorsey said at the time. “We’ve established protocol, it’s transparent. It’s out there for everyone to read. We have, independent of the U.S. president, we have conversations with all governments. It’s not just limited to this one.”In a move to “protect the health of public conversation,” Twitter will allow violative tweets from world leaders to remain on its platform, but with warnings like the one seen above.
Since then, the company has determined that its policies are perhaps not as clear as first thought, revisiting
Or they could just suspend the accounts ffs
Twitter could block every Russian bot, too, but they just don't want to.