Exclusive: Cruz calls for criminal investigation of Twitter

As said they are full of Shit. If you read the tweet it is no way threatening or inciting violence. Then we have a few more links of the psycho's that blame trump for passing gas or breathing!



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). Photo: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images




Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in a letter Friday to the Justice and Treasury departments, is calling for a criminal investigation of Twitter over allegations the company is violating U.S. sanctions against Iran.


Why it matters: Twitter is already under fire from President Trump for adding fact checks and a warning label, respectively, to misleading and incendiary tweets he made in recent days. Cruz's letter adds another dimension to the tech company's woes in Washington.


Details: Twitter allows Iranian leaders to maintain accounts on its service, and Cruz is asking Attorney General Bill Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to probe whether that violates U.S. sanctions prohibiting American companies from providing goods or services to the country's top officials.
"I believe that the primary goal of (the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) and sanctions law should be to change the behavior of designated individuals and regimes, not American companies," Cruz wrote."But when a company willfully and openly violates the law after receiving formal notice that it is unlawfully supporting designated individuals, the federal government should take action."


The big picture: Twitter has said it's in the public interest to have political figures' speech on its platform, even if some find that speech objectionable.
The company on Friday labeled a tweet from Trump about the unrest in Minneapolis as breaking its rules on "glorifying violence."
The White House and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, among other prominent conservatives, questioned why Twitter hasn't applied similar labels to tweets from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.


Background: Cruz led an earlier letter from Republican senators to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in February, calling on the company to ban Iranian leaders, including Khamenei and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. The senators suggested providing the accounts may violate U.S. sanctions.
Twitter responded in April, arguing that its service is exempt from the sanctions, and that the public conversation on the platform is critically important during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Fundamental values of openness, free expression, public accountability, and mutual understanding matter now more than ever," Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's legal, public policy & trust and safety lead, wrote. "Regardless of the political agenda of a particular nation state, to deny our service to their leaders at a time like this would be antithetical to the purpose of our company, which is to serve the global public conversation."
Twitter declined to comment on the new Cruz letter.


Flashback: Cruz talked to Axios' Dan Primack on the Pro Rata podcast last year to discuss allegations that major tech platforms are biased against conservatives.


















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Ina Fried

Updated 15 hours ago - Technology
Twitter: Trump's Minnesota tweet violated rules on violence








Twitter said Friday morning that a tweet from President Trump in which he threatened shooting in response to civil unrest in Minneapolis violated the company's rules. The company said it was leaving the tweet up in the public interest.


Why it matters: The move exacerbates tensions between Twitter and Trump over the company's authority to label or limit his speech and, conversely, the president's authority to dictate rules for a private company.


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Shane Savitsky

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Trump's social media director says "Twitter is full of s--t"








President Trump's director of social media and deputy chief of staff for communications Dan Scavino tweeted Friday that "Twitter is full of s--t" after the platform determined that one of the president's tweets in response to civil unrest in Minneapolis violated the company's rules.


Why it matters: Scavino is the "caretaker of Trump's explosive Twitter feed," as Politico reported last year, and the president relies on him for advice on how some of the administration's most controversial moves will be received on social media.


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Marisa Fernandez

May 28, 2020 - Technology
Twitter fact-checks Chinese official's claims that coronavirus originated in U.S.



Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian. Photo: Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images




Twitter slapped a fact-check label on a pair of months-old tweets from a Chinese government spokesperson that falsely suggested that the coronavirus originated in the U.S. and was brought to Wuhan by the U.S. military, directing users to "get the facts about COVID-19."


Why it matters: The labels were added after criticism that Twitter had fact-checked tweets from President Trump about mail-in voting, but not other false claims from Chinese Communist Party officials and other U.S. adversaries.


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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-exec-in-charge-of-effort-to-fact-check-trump-has-history-of-anti-trump-posts-called-mcconnell-a-bag-of-farts?fbclid=IwAR0i7OkvH707niL-VribDc4gw7vQAeF2aclO_uDQIbovpxBRTob3oG79Qjw

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/29/minnesota-ag-ellison-trump-calling-rioters-thugs-calling-on-them-to-get-shot-the-same-sort-of-attitude-that-resulted-in-the-death-of-george-floyd/

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/05/29/ted-cruz-calls-for-criminal-investigation-of-twitter-for-potentially-violating-sanctions-against-iran/

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2020/05/29/taylor-swift-accuses-trump-of-stoking-white-supremacy-in-woke-twitter-rant/

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