But a Twitter spokesperson told POLITICO that the company stands by its ruling against Trump’s tweet, in which the president railed against unrest in Minnesota and remarked that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” Twitter slapped a warning label on the tweet after it appeared on Trump’s personal account, and later did the same thing to a tweet from the White House’s official account that cited his words verbatim.

The spokesperson said the automated email came in response to a specific complaint in which someone had accused the official White House account of violating a subset of Twitter’s rules — not necessarily regarding its policies on violent content. The email does not make clear what rule the complainant had cited.

The spokesperson said the company is required by law under certain jurisdictions, such as Germany, to alert users when Twitter has received and reviewed certain complaints against their accounts.

But make no mistake, the spokesperson wrote: “The Tweets violate our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today.”

The dust-up is the latest skirmish in a weeklong bout between the president and his preferred social network, after Twitter this week slapped a fact-checking label on his claims about mail-in voting. Trump responded with an executive order Thursday threatening to narrow online businesses’ protections from lawsuits.

Source:politico.com