Twitter hides post by Trump, says it ‘glorifies violence’
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After the angry demonstrations spread overnight to multiple US cities, from New York to Phoenix, President Donald Trump blasted local officials and labelled the protesters “thugs” and threatened a harsh crackdown.
Twitter hid a tweet by US President Donald Trump behind a warning for the first time on Friday, accusing him of breaking its rules by “glorifying violence” in a message that said looters at protests in Minneapolis would be shot.
Twitter’s decision to step in escalates a feud between Trump and tech companies. It came hours after Trump signed an executive order threatening Silicon Valley social media firms with new free speech regulations, amid a fight with Twitter after the company added a factchecking tag to his tweets this week about unsubstantiated claims of fraud in mail-in voting.
It also comes at a time of racially-charged civil unrest in cities across the United States over the death of George Floyd.
Twitter also hid a later tweet from the official White House Twitter account that repeated the message.
Trump, who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, responded by accusing the company of targeting him and other conservatives for censorship. Trump’s message can now be seen only after clicking on a notice which says: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”