Chairman Pai Challenges Twitter After It Warns About President Trump Tweet

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai challenged Twitter over a bellicose posting from Iran’s top leader hours after the company put a warning about glorifying violence on a tweet from President Donald Trump. “Serious question for @Twitter: Do these tweets from Supreme Leader of Iran @khamenei_ir violate “Twitter Rules about glorifying violence”? Chairman Pai said in a tweet. He attached screen shots of May 22 tweets from Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei predicting the eventual elimination of Israel. The post was in apparent reference to Twitter slapping a rule-violation notice on a tweet from Trump that included the phrase “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” in reference to unrest in Minneapolis.