Yesterday, Twitter, a social networking site, accused US President Donald Trump of "glorifying violence" and appended to him a tweet related to the unrest in Minneapolis, alerting that the site disclaims responsibility for the tweet that he said violates his rules.
"These mobs distort George Floyd's memory and I will not allow that to happen," Trump wrote in his tweet. I just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the military had a heart and a heart. We will control any difficulty, but when looting begins, the shooting begins. thank you".
Now it is no longer possible to read Trump's message without pressing an alert saying, "This Tweet violates Twitter's rules regarding glorification of violence." But Twitter decided that keeping this Tweet available might be in the public interest.
Demonstrators set fire to a security center in Minneapolis Thursday night, on the third night of confrontations with the police, after the death of a black man as a result of a ruthless arrest by the police.
Thousands demonstrated in the northern neighborhoods of the city before some of them crossed the barriers protecting the building and broke its windows.
The security personnel left the building, according to the police. In a series of tweets, Twitter said that it made this decision "with the aim of preventing others from being inspired to commit acts of violence." He added that the site's users can still "repost the tweet with a comment on it, but they cannot like it, reply to it, or just republish it."
Twitter first posted Trump's tweets Tuesday, by adding a message to it saying "Verify the facts."
The signals included tweets in which Trump considered mailing necessarily a "fraud" because it was manipulative, a highly sensitive issue as the presidential election approaches this year.
As a result of the handling of Twitter with its tweets, President Trump signed an executive order the day before yesterday aimed at reducing the legal immunity enjoyed by social networking sites in terms of their control over their content.