In a tweet, Twitter announced that “after close review of recent Tweets from” the President of the United States the company has “permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
World leaders, such as Sayyid Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, have not been suspended from the platform, even though they have made threats on the platform.
4. The Zionist regime is a deadly, cancerous growth and a detriment to this region. It will undoubtedly be uprooted and destroyed. Then, the shame will fall on those who put their facilities at the service of normalization of relations with this regime.
— Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 22, 2020
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called for the genocide of the Israeli people on his Twitter account which still remains up today.
Twitter qualified the tweets as “comments on current affairs.”