Twitter clarifies special rules for tweets by world leaders like Trump

By Timothy B. Lee

"We've allowed certain tweets that violated our rules," Twitter acknowledges.

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Twitter's rules state that "you may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people." So when US President Donald Trump tweeted in January 2018 that he had a "nuclear button" that was "much bigger & more powerful" than the nuclear button of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and (a few months earlier) that North Korea "won't be around much longer" if it continued its bellicose rhetoric, critics asked Twitter to take the tweets down for violating Twitter's rules.

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