Twitter has hidden one of President Donald Trump’s tweets from his profile, saying it violates rules about glorifying violence.
Instead of being deleted, the tweet has been replaced with a warning and can be viewed by clicking on it.
The warning says “Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”
This as Trump was tweeting about the US city of Minneapolis, which has seen consecutive nights of protests following the death of an unarmed black man in police custody.
Trump said he would “send in the National Guard”, and followed that up with a warning that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”
The second tweet was hidden by Twitter for “glorifying violence.”
Twitter has a policy where it adds a warning to, rather than deleting, tweets that break its rules when it comes to major public figures were announced in mid-2019. But on the social network has never used it on MTrump – nor deleted any of his tweets before.
