Twitter says tweet falsely tying Texas gunman to Beto O'Rourke doesn't break its rules

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Twitter says tweet falsely tying Texas gunman to Beto O’Rourke doesn’t break its rules

By Isaac Stanley-Becker September 5 at 7:05 PM

Twitter said Thursday that it would not scrub its platform of a conspiracy theory falsely tying Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic presidential aspirant and former Democratic congressman, to the gunman who killed seven people in two west Texas towns on Saturday because the posts did not run afoul of the company’s policies.

“As of this time, it doesn’t constitute a violation of our rules,” a representative for the social media giant said.

Among the users amplifying the smear against O’Rourke was Anthony Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a member of Trump’s 2020 advisory board, which the campaign said was a “diverse group of key supporters committed to reelecting President Donald Trump.”

“Advisory Board members often serve as surrogates in media appearances or by writing op-eds,” the campaign added in a statement provided this week.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/twitter-says-tweet-falsely-tying-gunman-to-beto-orourke-doesnt-break-its-rules/2019/09/05/bda104f2-d025-11e9-b29b-a528dc82154a_story.html

[Iliyah]

1. Oh please, this whole

administration and campaign needs to be gone like now.

These people fuel so much hatred.

[crazytown]

2. How about a tweet falsely tying Pence to to rape of a 5 yo girl?

[RockRaven]

3. Well, that smears a Repuke, so suddenly Jack et al would have a problem with it...

But if it were a Clinton or an Obama, that would be free speech and open expression, yadda yadda...

Does anyone really NOT see what Twitter's deal is yet? THEY OPENLY STATED THEY WON'T BAN NAZI/WHITE-NATIONALISM HATE-SPEECH BECAUSE IT WOULD AFFECT GOP POLITICIANS.

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[JI7]

5. i wish something else would come along which results in twitter going the way of myspace

[Celerity]

6. Facebook 'replaced' Myspace, and is far more malevolent a force, so odds are high the 'new' Twitter

will be also be more destructive and spun up, producing disruptive, malicious effects at more targeted, systemically amplified, and effective levels.