Twitter pulls Trump video that it said posed a ‘risk of violence’
Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images In the wake of an unprecedented mob attack on the Capitol building, Twitter restricted and then removed a tweet from President Donald Trump, including its attached video. Users initially could no longer reply to, like, or retweet the post due to what Twitter referred to as a risk of violence." The tweet containing the video was then deleted entirely with a nonspecific link to Twitter's policy guidelines.
In Trump's Wednesday Twitter video, he responded to mob violence at the US Capitol calling on rioters to peacefully go home" hours after the chaos began. But he also repeated false claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and did not denounce the violence, leading some to find the calls for order unconvincing. We had...