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Posting election misinformation violates Twitter ToS, and since the election he has posted something violating that policy (in their judgment) if not every day, very close to it. These policies have been around since before the election [1].

These examples don't appear to be hypocritical to me on the surface, but I am certainly open to more information. Many people are not happy with Kathy Griffin doing that, on both sides. And I am honestly not sure how Cuomo saying that violates anything, could you explain? Or point me in the direction of it? I had not heard about it. If it does violate their ToS, then he should have received a suspension or at least warning too.

[1] https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/civic-int... https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/2020-elec...

My only problem with this is who determines what is election misinformation?

If Russian authorities call another dubious election in favor of Putin, do we just accept that now and ban any dissenting opinions?

I mean after all their authorities have set the official narrative, isn't anything else misinformation now?

While I think the comparison is a bit unfair, it does raise an interesting dilemma. I really don't know what you do in that situation. I don't think their government would be considered the trusted authorities on the matter, but who would be? At the same time Twitter is not a Russian company and does not have a large Russian presence that I know of. Are they under any moral obligation to help maintain free and fair elections there? Where they may feel like they are for the US.

Yeah I just used a more extreme example to make the point.

Twitter is US based but they purposefully operate in a multi-national manner serving users across the world, so it's easy to argue that there is some responsibility.

If Twitter wants to play arbitrator and set that expectation to the international community, what happens when they don't remove "misinformation" in other countries?

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