Twitter changes reason for not removing anti-Muslim tweets by Trump

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Reacting to this, British Prime Minister Theresa May called Trump “wrong” for promoting such “hateful narratives”.

Taking US President Donald Trump’s side once again, Twitter has retracted its previous explanation for why it did not remove Trump’s tweets that included graphic anti-Muslim videos.

Trump this week retweeted videos by far-right British politician Jayda Fraser that purported to show Muslims performing violent acts.

 

Reacting to this, British Prime Minister Theresa May called Trump “wrong” for promoting such “hateful narratives”.

Trump replied back, telling May that she should instead turn her attention to terrorism and that “we are doing just fine”.

Later, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted: “We mistakenly pointed to the wrong reason (why) we didn’t take action on the videos from earlier this week. We’re still looking critically at all of our current policies, and appreciate all the feedback.”

 

(Agencies)

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