
Are The Twitter Files A Scandal?
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The Hypocrisy of Twitter's Ban on Trump
Twitter announced Trump's permanent suspension in quote due to the risk of further incitement of violence and at the same time as Barry Weiss highlighted for us they have let just tweets that are equally perhaps worse go unpunished. In June 2018 Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khomeini retweeted Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region but Twitter neither deleted the tweet nor banned the Ayatollah. In October 2020 the former Malaysian prime minister said it was a right for Muslims to kill millions of French peoplebut he remains on the platform. The hypocrisy around all of this is is pretty astonishing to me and again it just shows the the randomness of of the decision-making
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