An update on our content moderation workTwitter's policy in action:
We have broadened our definition of harm to address content that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information. ...
Under this guidance, we will require people to remove Tweets that include ...
* Denial of established scientific facts about transmission during the incubation period or transmission guidance from global and local health authorities, such as "COVID-19 does not infect children because we haven't seen any cases of children being sick."
1. Donald Trump states lies about children and the coronavirus.Note: Despite its stated goal of preventing the spread of misinformation re COVID-19, Twitter still does not have an option on their reporting menu for misinformation about COVID-19.
2. Journalist Aaron Rupar fact-checks Trump, quoting him verbatim with a link to his words, and labels those words "stunningly irresponsible".
3. Twitter suspends Rupar's account.
Someone named Bizarre Lazar has been conducting a Twitter experiment. He set up an account (@SuspendThePres) and has been tweeting Trump's tweets as if they originated from him. He encourages his readers to report him.This is absolutely nuts, @TwitterSupport. My account was locked for quoting and fact-checking Trump, and I was forced to delete this tweet. Why am I getting punished for shining a light on the president's falsehoods? pic.twitter.com/UtbsGBe3cd— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 6, 2020
Twitter has suspended his account twice in three weeks (June 1 and June 22) and he had to delete the offending tweet. Twitter has done nothing regarding Trump's account and his original offending tweets are still posted. (Even when Twitter included a warning about one of Trump's tweets, saying it violated its police, the tweet was still visible.)
Experiment Update - Well it finally happened. Took longer than expected. 12 hour suspension and had to delete the offending tweet. Here’s the screenshots @suspendthepres. Will post to the account when suspension is lifted. pic.twitter.com/wvKV9HDKBn— Bizarre Lazar (@BizarreLazar) June 1, 2020
You got a 12 hr suspension + had to delete the offending tweet, just for mirroring the original author below who was apparently given no suspension & his tweet stays up marked like this: pic.twitter.com/sPGN4A59AB— Skep tickle (@Ellesun) June 2, 2020
And they made YOU delete the tweet. Very interesting.— Karen Kennedyπ·π (@KayKay68) June 2, 2020
@piersmorgan Trump gets to publish whatever he wants on @Twitter, but someone that reposts, verbatim, get suspended.— ππππ πππ₯π π£ππ€ ππLUFCπ₯πππ (@shabbaranksbro) June 2, 2020
Experiment Update - Just now coming off the second 12 hour suspension as outlined below. Tweet was forced to be deleted. Glad to be back. Onward we go to see if it will happen yet again.— Will they suspend me? (@SuspendThePres) June 22, 2020
The President’s tweet however is sill up and unabridged. https://t.co/90FLzmpltJ
Experiment Update - Just now coming off the second 12 hour suspension as outlined below. Tweet was forced to be deleted. Glad to be back. Onward we go to see if it will happen yet again.— Will they suspend me? (@SuspendThePres) June 22, 2020
The President’s tweet however is sill up and unabridged. https://t.co/90FLzmpltJ
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