The Twitter policy that could temporarily censor every single one of your tweets
Illustration by Alex Castro On Tuesday, a noted Palestinian-American journalist reporting live from protests near Jerusalem was suddenly and mysteriously silenced on Twitter - with every single tweet replaced by the message @MariamBarghouti's account is temporarily unavailable because it violates the Twitter Media Policy." It was a mistake, the company quickly admitted, and her tweets were quickly restored.
But it turns out that one part of the incident was not a mistake. While Twitter may have taken action on this person's account in error, there actually is one particular situation where Twitter reserves the right to make your tweets disappear. And - if you ask me - it's super, super dumb.
ive been on twitter what feels like my entire life and ive never seen...