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It is not just the presidency that is at stake for Donald Trump.
If the election thriller in the US is not over yet and the count is in full swing in crucial states, Joe Biden is in a good position to become the next US president.
But it is not just the presidency that is at stake for Trump. Trump will no longer be able to get special treatment from Twitter when he apparently resigns as the most powerful man in the world on January 20.
Twitter has strict rules and guidelines on what is allowed with misleading, false, and hateful information. The platform can sanction by deleting messages that they believe violate the policy and, in case of repeated violations, the Twitter account can be blocked.
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Guidelines for the value of news
However, Twitter’s Newsworthy Guidelines protect some users from having their posts deleted or their accounts locked, either temporarily or permanently. These benefits apply, among other things, to elected representatives with more than 250,000 followers, writes The Gaurdian.
It is these guidelines that explain why the social platform has only flagged, and not deleted, several of President Trump’s Twitter messages in the last week.
Twitter has confirmed that the guidelines no longer apply to former elected representatives, The Gaurdian writes.
Twitter treats violations by world leaders differently than those by regular users, choosing to flag the post with a warning about misleading content, rather than deleting it.
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– In the public interest
The idea is that people should be able to see what their leaders are saying, even if it is controversial and misleading content, because their messages have natural news value, Bloomberg writes.
“An important function of our service is to provide a place where people can respond openly and publicly to their leaders and hold them accountable,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement, according to Bloomberg.
With this in mind, there are certain instances where it is in the public interest to have access to certain Twitter messages, even if they would otherwise violate our rules, the statement from Twitter reads.
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As of this writing, Trump has 88.4 million followers and has tweeted more than 58,000 messages.
12 messages flagged since Election Day
Since Election Day November 4, Twitter has flagged and hidden 12 of President Trump’s messages with the following message: “Part or all of the content shared in this message is controversial and may mislead elections or other social processes “.
The messages contained, for example, accusations of electoral victory and electoral fraud.
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The content may still be visible to those who click on the message, but the move appears to limit the spread of the message. Electoral Integrity Association refers to an example where the number of actions per minute of a Trump message dropped dramatically after Twitter flagged it with a warning.
If Trump loses the election, it is not yet clear how Twitter will treat him as a civilian. Trump’s use of language was probably just as controversial and controversial before launching into the election campaign in 2016, but at the time he had far fewer followers and less influence than he has gained as the 45th president of the United States.
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