Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders who break rules

Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by Meekro on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:30PM (#21265250)

It's difficult because they are both private companies. The Internet Research Agency is a private Russian company that was indicted by Mueller for election interference activities, among them paying people to tweet in support of some US politicians.

So what exactly are private companies allowed to do to support or undermine a foreign candidate? Apparently tweeting goes too far. But if you restrict a candidate's tweeting, is that okay?

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:41PM (#21265355)

They're supposed to exercise their free speech by donating to a super-PAC and not "coordinating" (wink) with them.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by fzeroracer on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @08:07PM (#21265551)

There are legal and not-so legal ways of supporting candidates.

The FEC explicitly lays out what you can and cannot do. And generally speaking, a candidate requesting aid from a foreign entity in order to undermine an election is illegal. You're going to have to better establish how Twitter is violating the FEC rules if you want to compare the two.

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Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh... by username90 on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @12:58AM (#21267184)

Twitter interfering with foreign elections has nothing to do with FEC.

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