Partly false claim: Twitter suspends account of Ilhan Omar’s challenger for no reason
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A widely popular image circulating on social media claims that Danielle Stella's Twitter account got suspended for no reason. The photo portraying Ilhan Omar's potential Republican contender has been shared over 100,000 times in different pages as of February 14, 2020 (example here).
This is partly false. Twitter did suspend the account of Danielle Stella, Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District candidate, but it was not “for no reason” as claimed.
On the morning of November 26, 2019, Stella (@2020MNCongress) made a reference to an supported claim, that Ilhan Omar has denied (see here), suggesting she passed sensitive information to Iran. Stella tweeted: “If it is proven ____ passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged,”
***If I said "if it is proven Benedict Arnold passed sensitive information to Britain, he should be tried for treason and hanged"
***Is my above statement 1. racist? 2. sexist? 3. promoting violence? 4. glorifying violence? 5. Discriminatory in ANY WAY?
as she later explained on a Facebook post, visible here According to The Washington Times' report on the incident here she later tweeted a link relating to the allegation and the image of a stick figure hanging from gallows. After her statements, both her personal and campaign Twitter accounts were suspended. Reuters was unable to find an archived version of Stella’s tweet, likely as it would have been taken down shortly after publication.
***LOL they could not find an archived version of the tweet.
According to Twitter, Stella’s account repeatedly violated their social media policy, visible here. “The account you referenced was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules”, a Twitter spokesperson told Reuters.
While the company statement did not refer to any specific tweets, screenshots reported by The New York Times in the article here indicate that Stella’s account was suspended on November 26, 2019 (in U.S. time zones), the same day she tweeted these claims on her profile.
***LOL again, they did not refer to any specific tweets, and they relied on the NEW YORK TIMES for justification. No bias there, right?
Among the Twitter Rules on Safety, the company establishes parameters both for Violence and Hateful Conduct. The policies include:
“Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence.
***She did not threaten violence. Death is a possible punishment for treason, and could be administered by Congress if she were to be found guilty of treason.
Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. We also do not allow accounts whose primary purpose is inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories.”
***She did none of these, she merely stated a preference for possible consequence of her crime, and did not even accuse Omar of the crime.
After the incident, Ilhan Omar tweeted here that “this was the natural result of a political environment where anti-Muslim dog whistles and dehumanization are normalized by an entire political party and its media outlets”.
***Ilhan Omar's accusers are all Arabic and Muslim. They accused her in sworn statements to a court.
The post is therefore partly false. Danielle Stella’s Twitter accounts were permanently suspended, but it was not “for no reason” as claimed. According to Twitter, Stella’s account repeatedly violated the company’s rules.
***So are Reuter's fact-checkers really that stupid? "For no reason" is a very common term and according to the Urban Dictionary means "meaning without any possible explanation, making absolutely no sense at all or just outstandingly unexplainable." It is merely a way of expressing bewilderment at the original verdict BY THE ORIGINAL MEME MAKER and has NOTHING to do with actual reasons given by Twitter for suspension. It is merely a way of expressing disagreement. The Reuters "fact-checkers" saw and out, chose to interpret the phrase literally, and thus were able to claim it as partially false and be able to Censor it as such back to Facebook. Just another liberal hack organization using any means possible to censor conservative content.
VERDICT
Partly false: Twitter suspended Danielle Stella’s account because of repeated violations of the company’s rules
***Again, another literal interpretation, with no effort to actually understand the actual circumstances. This at its best, in an unbiased judgment, is unable to be determined by the fact-checkers. They failed to do their job.
Partly false claim: Twitter suspends account of Ilhan Omar’s challenger for no reason
4 Min Read
A widely popular image circulating on social media claims that Danielle Stella's Twitter account got suspended for no reason. The photo portraying Ilhan Omar's potential Republican contender has been shared over 100,000 times in different pages as of February 14, 2020 (example here).
This is partly false. Twitter did suspend the account of Danielle Stella, Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District candidate, but it was not “for no reason” as claimed.
On the morning of November 26, 2019, Stella (@2020MNCongress) made a reference to an supported claim, that Ilhan Omar has denied (see here), suggesting she passed sensitive information to Iran. Stella tweeted: “If it is proven ____ passed sensitive info to Iran, she should be tried for #treason and hanged,”
***If I said "if it is proven Benedict Arnold passed sensitive information to Britain, he should be tried for treason and hanged"
***Is my above statement 1. racist? 2. sexist? 3. promoting violence? 4. glorifying violence? 5. Discriminatory in ANY WAY?
as she later explained on a Facebook post, visible here According to The Washington Times' report on the incident here she later tweeted a link relating to the allegation and the image of a stick figure hanging from gallows. After her statements, both her personal and campaign Twitter accounts were suspended. Reuters was unable to find an archived version of Stella’s tweet, likely as it would have been taken down shortly after publication.
***LOL they could not find an archived version of the tweet.
According to Twitter, Stella’s account repeatedly violated their social media policy, visible here. “The account you referenced was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules”, a Twitter spokesperson told Reuters.
While the company statement did not refer to any specific tweets, screenshots reported by The New York Times in the article here indicate that Stella’s account was suspended on November 26, 2019 (in U.S. time zones), the same day she tweeted these claims on her profile.
***LOL again, they did not refer to any specific tweets, and they relied on the NEW YORK TIMES for justification. No bias there, right?
Among the Twitter Rules on Safety, the company establishes parameters both for Violence and Hateful Conduct. The policies include:
“Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence.
***She did not threaten violence. Death is a possible punishment for treason, and could be administered by Congress if she were to be found guilty of treason.
Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease. We also do not allow accounts whose primary purpose is inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories.”
***She did none of these, she merely stated a preference for possible consequence of her crime, and did not even accuse Omar of the crime.
After the incident, Ilhan Omar tweeted here that “this was the natural result of a political environment where anti-Muslim dog whistles and dehumanization are normalized by an entire political party and its media outlets”.
***Ilhan Omar's accusers are all Arabic and Muslim. They accused her in sworn statements to a court.
The post is therefore partly false. Danielle Stella’s Twitter accounts were permanently suspended, but it was not “for no reason” as claimed. According to Twitter, Stella’s account repeatedly violated the company’s rules.
***So are Reuter's fact-checkers really that stupid? "For no reason" is a very common term and according to the Urban Dictionary means "meaning without any possible explanation, making absolutely no sense at all or just outstandingly unexplainable." It is merely a way of expressing bewilderment at the original verdict BY THE ORIGINAL MEME MAKER and has NOTHING to do with actual reasons given by Twitter for suspension. It is merely a way of expressing disagreement. The Reuters "fact-checkers" saw and out, chose to interpret the phrase literally, and thus were able to claim it as partially false and be able to Censor it as such back to Facebook. Just another liberal hack organization using any means possible to censor conservative content.
VERDICT
Partly false: Twitter suspended Danielle Stella’s account because of repeated violations of the company’s rules
***Again, another literal interpretation, with no effort to actually understand the actual circumstances. This at its best, in an unbiased judgment, is unable to be determined by the fact-checkers. They failed to do their job.
Treason is treason- especially when they’re also from a foreign country.