While I was testifying before Congress yesterday, Twitter removed thousands of tweets about a “Trans Day of Vengeance” scheduled a few days after a trans man killed six people in a Christian school in Nashville.
Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety said in a tweet that the company had automatically removed more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of a poster promoting the event. “We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. ‘Vengeance’ does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok.”
Twitter said it had done so automatically regardless of the context. As a result, tweets that were supportive and critical of the event were removed.
Both sides of the debate were upset.
