As Biden's digital director Rob Flaherty revealed on Twitter, the social media platform has informed Biden's team that the POTUS and WhiteHouse accounts will start with zero followers. The tweet came from Chrissy Teigen, who had called the president a “pussy ass bitch,” in response to comments he had made about her and her husband. When President-Elect Joe Biden takes office next month, the POTUS Twitter account will be wiped of its followers, The Verge reports. Republicans on the committee have equated Twitter's initial decision to block links to the story with “censorship,” and criticized the company for its interactions with government officials.īut Navaroli revealed that Twitter had also received at least one request, in 2019, from the Trump White House regarding a tweet they wanted removed. (This was uncharted territory for the White House and Twitter at the time, and a scripting flaw accidentally caused. Washington-DC POTUS Twitter account officially resets for President Joe Biden by: Russell Falcon Posted: / 11:38 AM CST Updated: / 11:38 AM CST WASHINGTON, D.C. She revealed the previously unreported interaction during hearing with former Twitter executives’ over their handling of a 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. His tweets from POTUS were removed, but the account’s followers remained. Anika Navaroli, a former senior member of Twitter’s US Safety Policy, testified at a House Oversight Committee hearing that her team had received a request to remove a tweet making fun of the former president. Just hours after Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trumps personal account on Friday, the president began tweeting from the official account, POTUS.
A former Twitter employee has shed new light on the company’s dealings with the White House while former President Donald Trump was in office.
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