In other words, the content of the videos were irrelevant to Trump’s wider point, whatever that may have been. Twitter, however, considers it vital to the public interest to keep the videos online, boosted by the President to more than 40 million followers.
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That’s not a view shared by Brendan Cox, whose wife, the MP Jo Cox, was shot dead in 2016 by a man who shouted “Britain first” as he killed her.
“Spreading hatred has consequences and the President should be ashamed of himself,” Mr Cox wrote on Twitter.
With that in mind, Twitter’s safety team might want to consider whether there’s greater public interest in taking the tweets down.
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