In the event that President Trump loses the election, he will also need to bid farewell to a Twitter advantage that lets world leaders keep up tweets with certain offensive or misleading content, as indicated by a report.
Trump, as president, has profited by the Twitter policy that flags content that violates the platform’s rules — yet doesn’t out and out power their cancellation, just like the case with ordinary users, Bloomberg announced.
In any case, if Biden wins the election, come January, Trump will fall into the former world leader category, losing the special treatment, the report said.
Since election night, eight of Trump’s tweets have been hailed by the social media giant.
In one such tweet, the president accused his political opponents of trying to “STEAL the Election.” Twitter said that tweet violated their civic integrity policy.
The point of the world leaders policy, according to Bloomberg, is to diminish the spread of the rule-breaking content. Tweets flagged by Twitter can be viewed, but not liked or retweeted without a comment.
A Twitter spokesman explained to Bloomberg in a statement why flagged tweets from world leaders remain accessible on the platform.
“A critical function of our service is providing a place where people can openly and publicly respond to their leaders and hold them accountable,” the spokesman said.
“With this in mind, there are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain tweets, even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules.”
