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June 27, 2019Twitter 'will brand' the posts of political and institutional characters that should break the rules of behavior provided by the social network. "Although they violated the rules - the company says a note - in the past we have allowed the presence of some tweets because they were of public interest, but the how and when of these contexts were not clear. We decided to intervene, introducing a series of measures that will clarify these contexts ".Twitter has decided to take measures for 'tweets' that violate its terms of use and are written by political candidates and public officials whose account is verified and has over 100 thousand followers.
Trump in the viewfinder
This means that the American president, Donald Trump, could be affected.
A brand and a penalty
In practice, the social media has said that it will use a sort of label that will cover the text of a tweet that is indicted with a notification that the user is warned of the violation of the rules of use of the microblogging site. To read the tweet itself, the user must click on that notification. Moreover, through algorithms, the company could give less importance to those tweets so that they are seen by fewer people.
The new measure, which is not retroactive, comes into effect with immediate effect. It was announced in the aftermath of the accusations launched by Trump, according to which Twitter favors the Democrats at the expense of conservative voices. Twitter has always claimed to be neutral. And in today's post he says his goal is "to protect the state of public debate", in which people can write directly to leaders and politicians. But in the "rare" case where their tweets violate the group's rules, the latter will take action.