After reviewing US President Donald Trump’s latest anti-media tweet featuring a doctored video clip showing him beating up a man with a CNN logo on his face, Twitter found the President’s post was well within its rules.
The tweet spread like wildfire across the internet, drawing flak from his critics and renewed expression of support from his supporters at the same time. Some
even called on Twitter to ban the President.
Twitter told CNN on Sunday that the company reviewed the tweet and it
did not violate the microblogging site’s rules.
Twitter said it considered three factors — the political context of the conversation surrounding the tweet, the various ways it could be interpreted and the lack of details in the tweet itself, CNNMoney reported.
Twitter rules say that it may suspend an account for a number of reasons, including if the user makes violent threats; attacks people based on race, religion, gender and more; or engages “in the targeted abuse or harassment of others”.
The US President came under severe criticism for his earlier tweets about MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski in which the President attacked Brzezinski’s looks and Scarborough’s intelligence.