14 DAY TRIAL // Trump may never get booted off Twitter, no matter what he says, seems to be the conclusion Jack Dorsey has come to.
On the one hand, as Dorsey puts it in an interview with Backchannel, the company's policies should apply to everyone. On the other hand, Trump needs to be held accountable for the things he writes, and that can only be done if the account is there.
"I think it's really important that we maintain open channels to our leaders, whether we like what they're saying or not, because I don't know of another way to hold them accountable. Any time we have any leader tweet, including Trump, there's a very interesting and thriving conversation. A mixture of fact checking, disagreement, agreement, and some random things," the Twitter CEO said on the matter. His statement comes after many voices have expressed concern over Trump's tweeting habits and the effect some of those messages have on the world.
At the same time, Dorsey denies applying double standards when it comes to Trump. According to him, they are going to hold all accounts to the same standards. "Our policy does account for newsworthiness as well, and that was requested by our policy team," Dorsey said, more or less dodging a question about whether Trump could be banned for an "unacceptable" tweet.
Trump's tweets are evidence
The Twitter CEO says they're not taking down something that people should be able to report on and actually show that the source did say those things. "It's really important to make sure that we provide that source for the right reporting, and to minimize bias in articles," Dorsey says.
That basically means that Trump's position as President of the United States gives him the right to say whatever he wants on Twitter, even if it breaks policies, because people will then be able to hold him accountable for those words. It seems that on top of milking Trump's love of Twitter for some extra brownie points and new users, Twitter is kind of hoping the President says something wrong.