Twitter said Trump’s words glorified the violence and hid the message.
Washington:
On Friday, the White House snubbed Twitter by reposting a tweet from President Donald Trump that the social media giant had just taken the unprecedented step of hiding because it violated the rules of the platform.
The tit-for-tat marked a new escalation between Twitter and Trump, who has more than 80 million followers and uses tweets daily to announce policies, attack opponents and comment on the latest news.
Twitter concluded that Trump had violated his policies with a late-night tweet about the violent anti-police protests in Minneapolis when he called the protesters “THUGS” and warned of a military intervention.
“When the looting begins, the shooting begins,” Trump tweeted.
Twitter said its words “glorify violence” and hid the message.
However, the official White House account then dared to Twitter to take further action by retweeting the same message.
It happened a day after Trump signed an Oval Office decree to transform the way social media is regulated. This followed Trump’s fury on Twitter by tagging two of his tweets with fact checks, which was also an unprecedented step.
Trump says the platform, where he overshadows the presence of his Democratic rival in the November presidential election, is biased against him.
Trump’s social media director and Twitter feed manager Dan Scavino had his own response, also tweeted:
“Twitter is full of s ** t – more and more people are starting to get it,” he wrote.
