The open conflict between Donald Trump and Twitter seems to not be ending soon and in recent developments, users are calling for his ban from the platform. The outrage came after the United States President’s most recent Tweet this morning.
On Friday, 29th May 2020, Donald Trump posted on Twitter regarding the protest of George Floyd’s killing. He also addressed the ongoing store and home lootings and mentioned that ‘THUGS’ were using the protest as an opportunity to break the laws. However, he ended the Tweet with the statement:
“Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you!”
The last sentence sparked outrage as people saw it as the President endorsing violence using his Twitter page. In response, Twitter restricted views of the post by and added a label to it. But the social media platform allowed the post to stay up saying that it “has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
See a screenshot of this below:
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Following this development, several Twitter users have weighed in on the matter. Many call for the outright ban of Donald Trump from Twitter. Below are some top Tweets on the matter:
Tom Warren, a senior editor at The Verge had said, “just ban him already.”
just ban him already 🙄 pic.twitter.com/tVICsBcxmt
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 29, 2020
Another user, Charles Campisi described a scenario where another user lost an account. He explained that Twitter has grounds to ban Donald Trump.
I call on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to ban Donald Trump’s account.
No further evidence or proof is needed to show how inflammatory, threatening, libelous, offensive, abusive, hate-filled, harmful & destructively dangerous Trump’s tweets are.
It’s time to ban Trump’s twitter account— Charles Campisi (@1813Doncarlo) May 26, 2020
Which way will this issue tip? Would Twitter by-pass Trump’s account immunity and ban it or will he continue using it? Will there be other consequences like shadow-blocking? We keep up with the happening.
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