Twitter limits users interacting with Trump's tweets about 'stolen' election

[DonViejo]

BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO - 12/12/20 09:46 AM EST

Twitter on Saturday prevented users from liking and replying to a series of tweets from President Trump in which he repeated false claims that he won the election and that the race was “stolen” from him.

In three separate tweets Saturday morning, Trump responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to throw out a lawsuit from Texas aiming to nullify President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Trump cited the dissenting opinion from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito expressing their view that the court is obligated to hear interstate disputes.


Aside from this jurisdictional disagreement, however, those two more conservative justices indicated they joined the court’s seven other members in siding against Texas.

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https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529942-twitter-prevents-users-from-liking-replying-to-trumps-tweets-about-stolen

[drray23]

1. still not adequate. these kind of tweets should be removed.

his magats could not care less there is a weak warning saying its disputed. Its not, its flat out false. Disputed implies reasonable people have different views about it. Not the case here. Stopping users from forwarding, replying or liking wont help either. Somebody will just screenshot it and repost.

[AmericanCanuck]

2. Come January 20th, I suspect Trump's twitter account will be deleted -

[docgee]

3. From the app on my phone, I can still interact.

But if I click a link from here, meaning opening it up in a website, I get the satisfying block.

I see the likes and comments increasing also. My phone does warn me I need to update the app though. Maybe that's the reason.