Twitter Flags Trump’s Minneapolis Threat, and the White House Doubles Down
Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” tweet about Minneapolis drew a public warning from Twitter for glorifying violence, turning a bad message into a bigger institutional fight. The White House then reposted the same language from its official account, daring the platform to treat the president’s staff the same way it treated the president. That only sharpened the impression that the administration was more interested in trolling a tech company than calming a city already on edge.
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Twitter Flags Trump’s Minneapolis Threat, and the White House Doubles Down
Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” tweet about Minneapolis drew a public warning from Twitter for glorifying violence, turning a bad message into a bigger institutional fight. The White House then reposted the same language from its official account, daring the platform to treat the president’s staff the same way it treated the president. That only sharpened the impression that the administration was more interested in trolling a tech company than calming a city already on e…
Trump’s “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” tweet about Minneapolis drew a public warning from Twitter for glorifying violence, turning a bad message into a bigger institutional fight. The White House then reposted the same language from its official account, daring the platform to treat the president’s staff the same way it treated the president. That only sharpened the impression that the administration…
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