Donald Trump holds campaign rally at Des Moines International Airport in Des Moines, Iowa
US President Donald Trump’s election campaign Twitter account was unblocked Thursday after the social media campaign temporarily restricted it, claiming that a video of the account on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son violated its rules.
The video posted by the @TeamTrump account referred to a New York Post article on Wednesday that contained alleged details of Hunter Biden’s business relationship with a Ukrainian energy company and said the former vice president had met with an adviser to the society.
The Trump campaign, with 2.2 million subscribers, said in a new tweet that it is “reposting the video Twitter doesn’t want you to watch.” Twitter did not respond to a request for comment on why the account was unblocked.
“Joe Biden has been a liar who has been scamming our country for years,” the video captioned the video.
Twitter earlier said the video broke its rules against posting private information, adding that the account may need to delete the post in order to continue tweeting.
“This will all end in a big lawsuit and there are things that can happen that are very serious that I would rather not see happen, but it’s probably going to have to,” Trump said, when asked about the move by Twitter. . .
Twitter said on Wednesday that the Post’s article violated its “pirated material” policy, which prohibits the distribution of pirated content containing private information or trade secrets, or exposes people to risk of physical harm.
Facebook Inc and Twitter took proactive steps Wednesday to restrict the Post’s article from being distributed within hours of its publication.
Twitter had placed similar restrictions on the account of White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday after sharing the Post’s story.
Other Twitter users, including a reporter, said their accounts were suspended because they posted a link to the New York Post article. The accounts were unblocked after deleting the offending tweets.
After Twitter imposed the restrictions, the US Senate Judiciary Committee requested a subpoena from Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey.
Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley said the committee will vote on sending the summons on Tuesday, October 20 and plan to have Dorsey before the committee by October 23. .
Dorsey said on Twitter Wednesday, “Our communication around our actions on the @nypost article was not great. And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM without any context as to why we are blocking: unacceptable. “
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