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Alex Hern
Alex Hern
Trump could lose more than just the presidency this
January. Twitter has confirmed that, if he leaves office in January, as now
seems increasingly likely, he will no longer receive special treatment as
“newsworthy individual”.
Twitter’s
policy around newsworthiness protects certain people – such as elected
officials with more than 250,000 followers – from having their accounts
suspended or banned for rule infractions which would otherwise lead to severe
penalties.
That policy
is what has led to the company muting, but not removing, 12 tweets and counting
from the president over the past week, as he continues to break the social
network’s rules about casting doubt on the democratic process.
But,
Twitter has confirmed, the policy does not apply to former elected officials.
They have to follow the same rules as everyone else, and if a tweet breaks
those rules, it gets removed – with the account potentially following for
regular offenders.
That will
present Trump with a choice, if he is indeed removed from office in late
January: either tone down the rhetoric, just as the humiliation bites hardest,
or face the prospect of his hugely influential following being taken away from
him.
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