Daily Caller: Twitter announced Thursday the company will begin labeling and down ranking politicians’ most vitriolic tweets, a move that could affect how President Donald Trump promotes his message.
The new label applies to all verified political candidates and officials with more than 100,000 followers, Twitter noted in a blog post. Users who want to view flagged content must click on a screen that says Twitter’s rules against abusive behavior apply to the tweet.
Algorithms will then begin deprioritizing labeled tweets, the company said. Such de-rankings would inevitably result in fewer people seeing content with the new label. The new change will go into effect immediately and will not affect other leaders or accounts with broad influence.
“In the past, we’ve allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules to remain on Twitter because they were in the public’s interest, but it wasn’t clear when and how we made those determinations,” Twitter wrote. “To fix that, we’re introducing a new notice that will provide additional clarity in these situations, and sharing more on when and why we’ll use it.” read more
NOW will you do something about this, Mr. President. We will support you!
Declare them a public utility and regulate and tax the shit out of them.
How else are they going to keep him from being reelected?
Any view of the comments to his tweets show hatefulness far exceeding anything he posts and those blue checks remain intact.
If you don’t like the message, kill the messenger.
Or at least silence him so no one else can hear it.
This web suck!
Bruno and Vinnie need to pay Jack Dorsey a visit and let him know what a nice platform he has and what a shame it would be if anything were to happen to it.
Trump could tweet “Peace on earth and goodwill towards men” and leftists would have a problem with it.
Twitter Lays Groundwork For getting heavily regulated by Government weenies who will ruin their platform.
They brought this upon themselves (idiots!)
Mr. President, move to another platform and twitter will evaporate.
Why doesn’t Trump just maximize http://www.WhiteHouse.gov and make it a destination point for people, and blow off twitter?