Twitter Crackdown on Abuse Raises Question: Do the Rules Apply to Trump?

Campaign forces company to confront tricky questions about how it applies its standards

Some of President Donald Trump’s recent tweets on his personal account have raised the question of whether he is violating Twitter’s rules.

Photo: Jaap Arriens/Zuma Press

Twitter Inc. said it has clamped down on harassment on its service, a campaign that is forcing the company to confront tricky questions about how it applies its standards.

Twitter suspends or restricts accounts for abusive content at 10 times the rate of a year ago, the company said in a media briefing at its San Francisco headquarters this week. Twitter declined to say how many of its 328 million monthly average users are affected.

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