McConnell campaign suspended from Twitter for sharing video with a threat
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The campaign account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell found itself locked out of Twitter after sharing a video containing a threat made against the GOP leader that violated the social media company’s policy.
“This morning, Twitter locked our account for posting the video of real-world, violent threats made against Mitch McConnell,” McConnell’s campaign manager, Kevin Golden, said Wednesday in a statement. “This is the problem with the speech police in America today: The Lexington-Herald can attack Mitch with cartoon tombstones of his opponents. But we can’t mock it.”
“Twitter will allow the words ‘Massacre Mitch’ to trend nationally on their platform. But locks our account for posting actual threats against us,” Golden added. The Louisville Courier Journal first reported on the suspension.
witter policy prohibits “the glorification of violence” and states that users “may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people.”
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