The videos, shared by a British extremist, don’t violate Twitter’s rules after all. Twitter is retracting its reason for why it allowed anti-Muslim videos shared by Donald Trump — but is leaving them up anyway.
The US president retweeted videos posted by a British far-right extremist, to universal outrage in Britain.
Twitter now says that the videos don’t violated its rules after all.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump caused a firestorm of condemnation on both sides of the Atlantic when he retweeted a series of anti-Muslim videos originally shared on Twitter by a far-right British extremist.
The videos purport to show violence by Muslims, but at least one of the videos has been shown to be inaccurate and the others appear designed to be inflammatory by omitting crucial context.
Twitter on Friday retracted the initial explanation it gave for why the controversial videos were allowed to remain on the site — but the company insisted that the videos are fine anyway and do not cross the bounds of what it considers permissible.
Tech: Twitter says it made a mistake defending Trump’s anti-Muslim retweets — but says the videos are still OK (TWTR)
