Twitter restricts Trump threat of ‘serious force’ against protesters

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Twitter has enlarged its policy of labeling -- but not removing -- rule-breaking tweets from Presidium Donald Trump. The congregation rimmed a Trump column promising "serious force" adjoin a potential Washington, DC equivalent to Seattle's Capitol Hill Occupied Pule zone.

"We've placed a purchasable interestedness premonition on this Twitter for violating our policy adjoin contumelious behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of imprecate adjoin an identifiable group," writes Twitter's temerity team. The warning is posted big-headed the twitter and appears if users try to retweet it. Supervenient Twitter's accepted policy for world leaders whose tweets serve a "public interest," however, it won't be deleted.

There will never be an "Autonomous Zone" in Washington, D.C., as long as I'm your President. If they try they will be met with unhumorous force!

-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 23, 2020

This isn't the first Trump twitter that's been labeled for prospectus violence or abuse. In late May, Twitter censured a twitter that said "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," saying that it precious violence. The platform has also labeled "potentially misleading" misinformation approximately mail-in voting and a manipulated video purporting to be a CNN broadcast. The labels have stressed Trump's ire, and he issued an executive order disagreeable "bias" on social media hindmost the voting fact-check.

Restricted tweets can't be loved or replied to, although they can be retweeted with a comment. Notwithstanding this, Trump's huge social media supervenient approximately guarantees any twitter will be broadly specious on Twitter. Therefore the visualization is lavishly symbolic, but it helps Twitter stake out a position of affirmative and substitute on Trump's problematic social media posts -- in counteractive with Facebook, which has kept a lavishly hands-off complanate but did remove a Trump ad for using Nazi imagery last week. A Facebook post with Trump's "serious force" bulletin has therefore far not been labeled or removed.