{"id":121925,"date":"2018-01-07T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121925"},"modified":"2018-01-07T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T03:27:08","slug":"twitter-will-not-block-world-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/twitter-will-not-block-world-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter will not block world leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Twitter has announced it would not block the accounts of world leaders even if their statements are &#8220;controversial,&#8221; citing a need to promote a &#8220;public conversation&#8221; on political issues.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just days after a tweet from President Donald Trump hinting at the use of US nuclear weapons sparked criticism that the social network was allowing threats of violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-121926 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trump_twitter_1.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter will not block world leaders\" width=\"716\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trump_twitter_1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trump_twitter_1-768x307.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;Twitter is here to serve and help advance the global, public conversation. Elected world leaders play a critical role in that conversation because of their outsized impact on our society,&#8221; the California-based company said in a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has announced it would not block the accounts of world leaders even if their statements are &#8220;controversial,&#8221; citing a need to promote a &#8220;public conversation&#8221; on political issues. The announcement came just days after a tweet from President Donald Trump hinting at the use of US nuclear weapons sparked criticism that the social network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[62545,21358,10974,28417,43,62544,1233],"class_list":["post-121925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-public-conversation","tag-controversial","tag-political","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-will-not-block-world-leaders","tag-us"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/e4-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}