Twitter is giving Trump 'special treatment' despite new rules for world leaders, says free speech expert

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On Tuesday the social media giant published new guidelines for world leaders amid calls to curtail the president's aggressive online rhetoric.

from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, which cited an execution order against novelist Salman Rushdie.—using rhetoric to inspire politically-motivated violence—the president has not directly called for direct terrorist action on Twitter. It is unlikely anything Trump has posted on Twitter would be defined as falling foul of the new rules, especially considering the platform is unlikely to want a dispute with a sitting president.

This file photo shows a tweet from President Donald Trump attacking CNN and the television network's president, Jeff Zucker, for alleged media bias, on August 30, 2018.Asked whether the platform had specifically catered to Trump with its new rules, spokespeople referredBut Nadine Strossen, a professor at the New York Law School and long-time civil rights activist, toldthat Twitter's rules are"sufficiently vague and elastic that Trump could well be deemed to violate them.

"Just about everyone—certainly including Trump and other politicians—will continue to pressure the social media companies" about what they do and do not censor, regardless of political affiliation. Only expression illegal under U.S. law should be removed from platforms like Twitter, Strossen argued. This would include"intentional incitement of imminent violence that is likely to occur imminently; a 'true threat' when the speaker intends to instill a reasonable fear in targeted audience members that they will be subject to violence; and targeted harassment or bullying."

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