Twitter still won’t remove Trump’s tweets that violate its rules. But it will label them. | Washington Post

Where "... a particular purpose" probably means driving traffic regardless of the consequences; perhaps the label should be "An example of how utterly meaningless our 'rules' are"...

"Twitter is exploring how it can annotate offensive tweets that break its rules but remain in the public interest, said Vijaya Gadde, the company’s head of legal, policy, and trust and safety. It’s an effort to stem offensive content and hate speech and follows comments last year by chief executive Jack Dorsey, who said he is rethinking core parts of the platform to stem harassment and other abuses.

“One of the things we’re working really closely on with our product and engineering folks is, ‘How can we label that?’ ” Gadde said in a response to questions from the Post’s Silicon Valley correspondent, Elizabeth Dwoskin. “How can we put some context around it so people are aware that that content is actually a violation of our rules and it is serving a particular purpose in remaining on the platform.”"

Twitter still won’t remove Trump’s tweets that violate its rules. But it will label them. | Washington Post