I can’t believe it’s taken the President of the United States signing an executive order in the middle of a global pandemic for Twitter to grow a backbone, but that seems to be what’s happening
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As I wrote yesterday, I would exercise caution in praising Twitter for this. It’s a horrific tweet, but it comes hours after an executive order stripping Twitter of its legal safety net - he’s tweeted plenty of awful stuff that‘s still available to seehttps://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/05/twitter-fact-checking-donald-trumps-tweets-joe-scarborough-obamagate-jack-dorsey …
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ALSO MORE IMPORTANTLY: the censored tweet suggested shooting protestors demonstrating in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Please donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund if you have cash to sparehttps://minnesotafreedomfund.org
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It does feel like it’s pure reaction to him specifically now as well; so that’ll be enough to give Trump a “them or me” complex
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Not only does this not "glorify violence", it's not even clear whether he's saying that looting and shootings are correlated, or that the national guard will be shooting looters.
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The desperation of this defense
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