MSNBC host and NBC chief reporter call on Twitter to PUNISH Trump for Iran tweet threat

by The Right Scoop

Liberals on Twitter are trying to get the social media giant to punish President Trump for his tweet to Iran last night.

They claim, according to Free Beacon, that it violates Twitter’s rules that say users “may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

NBC reporter Bill Neely and MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle both call on Twitter to do something about it:


You’d think being in the news business they’d know that Twitter’s CEO has said, as recently as May of this year, that world leaders get far more latitude in their tweets:

Speaking at a Q&A at Twitter’s Australia office in Sydney on Friday, Jack Dorsey defended the role of Twitter in giving the public a direct line to their world leaders, whether they like the message or not.

“The important thing is that we hear from our leaders directly, that their thoughts are not in the dark,” Dorsey said. “That they’re out in the open and we can actually disagree with them, we can debate them, we can spread them if we agree with them, and we can comment.

“That is the beauty of an open conversation.”

And last year Twitter refused to take down his tweet threat to N. Korea:

In a series of tweets Monday, Twitter acknowledged Trump’s tweet had caused an uproar, but said it was allowed to stay because of its “newsworthiness.”

“We hold all accounts to the same Rules, and consider a number of factors when assessing whether Tweets violate our Rules,” Twitter wrote from its Policy account. “Among the considerations is ‘newsworthiness’ and whether a Tweet is of public interest.

“This has long been internal policy and we’ll soon update our public-facing rules to reflect it. We need to do better on this, and will,” the tweets continued.

So this outcry is really much ado about nothing, at least as far as Twitter rules go.

Look as I suggested last night, I’m not crazy about Trump’s outrage style of tweeting. But he is the President and for better or worse, we need to see his tweets and not have them censored.


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