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> The whole thing seems really hamfisted and poorly thought out. The US Secretary of State even tweeted incorrectly that North Korea built Tornado, then had to delete the tweet!

Somewhat tangentially, if it is an official government account, it's crazy to me that they can get away with deleting tweets (and subsequent interactions on those tweets) without an official record.

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I can see valid reasons to delete a inaccurate and misleading statement, but this requires substitution with a link to the archived message and a public statutory countdown to a seven days grace period before any misleading public servant either publishes a formal explanation for their errant communication or is automatically forfeit the mechanism of their office. Possibly the forfeit could be incrementally enforced for graded infractions, but given the gaming culture in every reach of human responsibility I think it should be a simple and clear cut off.

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