Is Twitter reviewing its content-moderation policies for ‘world leaders’ who make inflammatory statements?
Twitter recently asked the public for input on its policies governing controversial statements made by “world leaders,” as part of a review of its “approach to world leaders.” The survey received 49,000 responses. Its current policy allows some prominent users to violate certain Twitter rules that apply to other users if “there is a clear public interest value to keeping the tweet on the service.”
Following its suspension of then-President Donald Trump at the time of the assault on the Capitol in January 2021, the company has been under increased pressure to act when other political figures make statements deemed similarly inflammatory. One leader often singled out is the Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who is associated with several accounts on Twitter that have been repeatedly accused of promoting violence, hate and misinformation.
