Trump's Twitter life to be reset next year
Trump's Tweets.
US President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules like any other user when president-elect Joe Biden takes office on January 20, the social media company confirmed this week.
Twitter places “public interest” notices on some rule-breaking tweets from “world leaders” that would otherwise be removed. Such tweets from political candidates and elected or government officials are instead hidden by a warning and Twitter takes actions to restrict their reach.
But the company said this treatment does not apply to former office holders.
“This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement.
It has added multiple warnings and labels to tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account, including many since November 3 that made unfounded allegations of voting fraud.
It first hid one of his tweets behind a “public interest” label in May when the president violated the company’s policy against glorifying violence.
Under Facebook’s policies, it appears that after Biden takes office in January, Trump’s posts would also no longer be exempt from review by Facebook’s third-party fact-checking partners.
Facebook’s online policy says it defines politicians, whose posts are exempt from fact-checking, as candidates running for office, current office holders and many of their cabinet appointees, along with political parties and their leaders.
