Since the Capitol riots, Twitter has taken more precautions to stop hate speech and incitement to violence, including a purge of more than 70,000 accounts it found were engaged in sharing harmful content. It also permanently suspended President Trump’s account for the risk of further incitement to violence, referencing Twitter’s “public interest framework” which outlines its guidelines towards the profiles of world leaders on its platform.
Twitter asserts it will not tolerate “clear and direct threats of violence against an individual” and recently updated its policy to prohibit the “dehumanization of a group of people based on their religion, caste, age, disability, serious disease, national origin, race, or ethnicity.” On Jan. 21, 2021, it locked the account of China’s US embassy for a tweet defending China’s persecutory policies towards Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
