The 3 loopholes that keep President Trump’s tweets on Twitter

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In recent months, Twitter has started to explain why it disagrees with calls for banning President Donald Trump’s account or deleting some of his tweets. 

  • A rule loophole for “military or government entities”
  • “Newsworthiness”
  • The rules themselves: Twitter has done a lot of work over the past year to clarify its rules and how they are enforced. But, as with most platforms, Twitter still leaves room for the site to interpret the rules as it wants in any given situation. And that gives Twitter its third way out of disciplining Trump’s account — a determination that something he tweeted isn’t a violation of the rules.

The 3 loopholes that keep President Trump’s tweets on Twitter