So it looks like Fox News is protesting against Twitter by not tweeting, and ordering their employees not to tweet.
This is according to the Hill:
According to Tribune Media content manager Scott Gustin, Fox is apparently concerned about Twitter’s handling of posts that included Carlson’s address.
“A Fox News employee tells me Fox is choosing to stay silent while protesting how Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson — specifically the ones that included his address,” reads one tweet from Gustin posted last Friday.
The @FoxNews Twitter account has been silent for over 24 hours. A Fox News employee tells me Fox is choosing to stay silent while protesting how Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson — specifically the ones that included his address. address.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
According to source, Facebook was prompt when alerted to posts that included his home address. Twitter support reportedly told Fox to "open a ticket" and did not remove the posts.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
Fox already released a statement condemning the Tucker protesters but there has been no official statement on the Twitter protest/blackout. Source says the Twitter blackout decision came "from the highest level" of the company.
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) November 10, 2018
More from the Hill:
Business Insider reported on Sunday it had obtained an internal email from Fox News managing editor Greg Wilson instructing network employees to “please refrain from tweeting out our content from either section accounts or your own accounts until further notice.”
A source close to the matter confirmed to The Hill the decision to launch a protest against Twitter was due to its unresponsiveness to the network’s requests to expunge content related to the Carlson protest, which it deemed dangerous.
The Fox News Twitter account, which has more than 18 million followers, has tweeted more than 418,000 times since joining the platform 11 years ago, or an average of more than 100 times per day. Fox Business Network has also not tweeted since Nov. 9.
This is kind of odd. Twitter certainly isn’t hurt by Fox News boycotting them, and I just don’t think they’re gonna do anything about it. But we’ll see, I guess. I just know that for most people who are addicted to Twitter, they try to quit and days or weeks they’re BACK like the addicts they are!!!