Truth is we’ve been terrible at explaining our decisions in the past. We’re fixing that. We’re going to hold Jones to the same standard we hold to every account, not taking one-off actions to make us feel good in the short term, and adding fuel to new conspiracy theories.
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If we succumb and simply react to outside pressure, rather than straightforward principles we enforce (and evolve) impartially regardless of political viewpoints, we become a service that’s constructed by our personal views that can swing in any direction. That’s not us.
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Accounts like Jones' can often sensationalize issues and spread unsubstantiated rumors, so it’s critical journalists document, validate, and refute such information directly so people can form their own opinions. This is what serves the public conversation best.
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Many more details here:https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/TheTwitterRulesALivingDocument.html …
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Can you at suspend
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I meant it in a nice way
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This is a joke, right? Not wanting to fan conspiracy theories ABOUT Alex Jones? Jones
1. Calls 4 “civil war” violence
2. Calls 4 breaking people’s noses & jaws
3. Statements abt shooting people
4. Encouraged suicide
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Could you provide an example?
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I called Nigel Farage a lying, racist tw*t this morning. Half a second later I got a 12 hour restriction. Shouldn’t my tweet have been allowed to stand until journalists had been given time to investigate my assertion?
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Or should I have just called him a crisis actor, tweeted out his home address and allowed him to be chased out of town in true twitter fashion?
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