Twitter weighs in on whether Trump could be banned after leaving office

Once President-elect Joe Biden assumes office on Inauguration Day, Twitter could remove President Trump’s special privileges as a high-profile world leader and treat his account as a normal one.Twitter confirmed reports that a change in the account’s status could lead to harsher enforcement actions – although a spokesman said the policy was nothing new.The platform has a public interest exemption for the accounts of world leaders, whose words are generally newsworthy and important for their citizens to read, even if they violate the rules. President Donald Trump listens during a ceremony to present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former football coach Lou Holtz, in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 3, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) TULSI GABBARD URGES TRUMP NOT TO ‘BACK DOWN’ AGAINST BIG TECHBut the exemption does not apply to former world leaders, a spokesman said.Trump’s personal Twitter account has more than 88 million followers, and his most recent five tweets early Friday evening each received more than 50,000 likes – with the highest racking up nearly 140,000.But his tweets about unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud have garnered warning tags from Twitter that read, “This claim about election fraud is disputed.”Even those posts, however, receive tens…
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