{"id":114784,"date":"2019-10-16T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/16\/twitter-explains-how-it-handles-world-leaders-amid-pressure-to-rein-in-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-10-16T01:26:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T23:26:49","slug":"twitter-explains-how-it-handles-world-leaders-amid-pressure-to-rein-in-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=114784","title":{"rendered":"Twitter explains how it handles world leaders amid pressure to rein in Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogpost sheds new light on how tweets will be treated but is unlikely to satisfy those calling for Trump\u2019s censorshipTwitter on Tuesday published additional information about how it plans to act if a world leader tweets something that violates its rules. The update follows the announcement in June of a policy whereby the company would choose not to delete tweets by major political figures that violated the company\u2019s rules if the company decided it was in the public interest.Since the election of Donald Trump, Twitter has been in the unenviable position of having the ability to censor the president of the United States on the very platform where he is the most unguarded. It has largely resisted the intense pressure to do so, even when it seemed that Trump\u2019s tweets might have fallen afoul of Twitter\u2019s rules if they had been sent by anyone else. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/oct\/15\/twitter-explains-how-it-handles-world-leaders-amid-pressure-to-rein-in-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter explains how it handles world leaders amid pressure to rein in Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogpost sheds new light on how tweets will be treated but is unlikely to satisfy those calling for Trump\u2019s censorshipTwitter on Tuesday published additional information about how it plans to act if a world leader tweets something that violates its rules. The update follows the announcement in June of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}