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If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.

Why wouldn't you? Life is way too short to pass up on the opportunity to ban a president. The lulz would last centuries.

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Curious what the process was in designing that warning. How did they A/B test this? How did they experiment with different fonts, colors, and spaces?

Looks like they tested it earlier this year.

The demo was a bright orange notice.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-testing-new-w...

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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If we're honest a lot of his tweets violate twitters content policy and they do so blatantly. I wonder if they'll ever have the guts to straight up hand him at least a temp ban.

Jack Dorsey has spoken about this on Joe Rogan's podcast, and he basically says that it was a judgement call where they weighed the public interest in the tweets against the violations of the tweets.

EDIT>> I dug up the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K571_jqnCpM

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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>The move comes on the heels of Twitter's decision not to remove comment President Trump made about the death of Lori Klausutis in 2001. The president has tweeted several messages promoting a conspiracy theory that Ms Klausutis was murdered by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough.

I would be very curious to hear an explanation of this decision. Why do Tweets about mail in ballots receive a warning but tweets accusing a journalist of murder don't?

Re: Twitter tags Trump tweet with fact-checking warning

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Left leaning media is going way too far with their grasp of any news narrative. Mail in voting is susceptible to fraud- that’s the truth regardless of your political affiliation. Ballots can be filled out by someone other than the voter, votes can be lost in the mail, and even stuffed by those trusted to oversee the process like in extreme cases in Philadelphia last week:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/voter-fraud-philadelphia-ward-...

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