Donald Trump's campaign got suspended on Twitter

[SheltieLover]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/donald-trump-just-got-suspended-on-twitter/

President Donald Trump’s campaign was banned from Tweeting on Wednesday after Twitter told the president his campaign had to delete the misinformation about children not getting the coronavirus.

More at link. Apologies - very difficult to copy text at RS.

Article originated at WAPO.

[Beartracks]

1. Here's some of it...

"Earlier in the day, Facebook made a similar move, but removed Trump’s post themselves, marking it a lie. Twitter took a more drastic approach, which is likely going to draw the president’s ire and the anger from his son, Donald Trump Jr. who was barred from Twitter last week.

"According to the Washington Post, Twitter has been under pressure to do more about Trump lying on their platform as well as other Trump allies lying about issues.

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Twitter spokeswoman Liz Kelley said the tweet 'is in violation of the Twitter Rules on COVID-19 misinformation. The account owner will be required to remove the Tweet before they can Tweet again. '"

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[SheltieLover]

2. Ty, Bear!

[Beartracks]

3. You're right, they don't make it easy.

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[Midnight Writer]

4. You don't have to watch The Weather Channel to know which way the wind is blowing.

I suspect Dorsey, Zuck and the others are ready to wash this loser off their hands.

Can these platforms be held liable for distributing false, harmful medical information?

A Trump Administration would never test that, but a Biden Administration may.