Twitter says it wont remove President Trump's tweets that include a fake conspiracy theory that the president is promoting to malign MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.
"My request is simple: Please delete these tweets," Klausutis wrote."I'm a research engineer and not a lawyer, but reviewed all of Twitter's rules and terms of service. The President's tweet that suggests that Lori was murdered without evidence and contrary to the official autopsy is a violation of Twitter's community rules and terms of service.
“We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they are drawing, are causing the family," the spokesperson said in an email."We've been working to expand existing product features and policies so we can more effectively address things like this going forward, and we hope to have those changes in place shortly."Scarborough is a regular critic of Trump and his policies. MSNBC is part of NBC News.
Twitter, once a platform that took a hands-off approach to moderating what its users tweet, has in recent years begun to crack down on some content, including
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