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Twitter says Infowars hasn't 'violated our rules.' That's not the case

• prolikewh0a 8y ago
  It's so weird that CNN is going after Alex Jones by sending rule violations directly to Twitter. What stake does CNN have in this besides a publicity stunt to go "we're the good guys :3".
  • dragonwriter 8y ago
    A major platform making claims at odds with the facts in defense of it's behavior in a prominent public controversy is itself newsworthy. And they aren't sending rule violations to Twitter, they are reporting on Twitter's claims about rule violations (as part of that reporting, they provide an opportunity for Twitter to comment to the violations addressed in the reporting, but that's standard journalistic practice.)
    • prolikewh0a 8y ago
      >A major platform making claims at odds with the facts in defense of it's behavior in a prominent public controversy is itself newsworthy. Twitter decides their rules and who they want to allow/disallow. It's almost as if CNN is forcing this on Twitter at this point. It makes this all seem like some sort of weird coordinated effort. It also says, as quoted below, exactly what I said above. >CNN on Wednesday morning presented Twitter with examples of such content available on both the InfoWars and Jones account. *Just as a side note, I don't support Alex Jones and I think he's terrible.