TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The former Twitter employee who on his last day of employment deactivated President Donald Trump’s account has come forward, and he says it was all a mistake…
Trump, one of the most prolific and popular political tweeters, with nearly 44 million followers, saw his account deactivated for 11 minutes on November 2.
According to TechCrunch, Duysak was in the United States on a work/study visa. He had also worked at Google and left Twitter to go back home to Germany because his work visa was set to expire.
TechCrunch says Duysak worked in the Trust and Safety division of Twitter, which is where consumers go to report violations to Twitter’s terms of service, which states that the service can’t be used ‘to engage in abusive behavior, such as targeted harassment or expressing hate towards a person, group, or protected category.’
In a statement to USA TODAY, Twitter said it wouldn’t comment on a former employee but that it has taken a number of steps to keep incidents like this one from happening in the future.
Trump’s tweets are often inflammatory, singling out individuals he doesn’t care for…
The company told uses on November 3 that it took the situation ‘seriously’ but has yet to update the public about the results of the investigation.”
-Jefferson Graham, “Former Twitter employee who disabled Trump account says it was mistake,” USA Today, Nov. 30, 2017 12:16pm