In a blog post Tuesday, Twitter said “world leaders are not above our policies entirely,” and detailed circumstances the company says would lead it to take action against them.
In the post, Twitter said it “will err on the side of leaving the content up if there is a clear public interest in doing so” even if tweets by world leaders otherwise violate content policies. But as announced in June, such posts would be placed “behind a notice providing context about the rule violation,” and steps would be taken to reduce the tweet’s algorithmic reach.
However, Twitter identified 6 kinds of content that would result in “enforcement action” regardless of any public interest: promotion of terrorism; “Twitter Clarifies What World Leaders Are Not Allowed to Tweet” threats against individuals; posting home addresses, non public phone numbers or other private information; “intimate photos or video” shared or posted without consent; “behaviors relating to child sexual exploitation”; and “encouraging or promoting self-harm.”