Twitter Temporarily Locked Trump’s Account On Monday

Business Insider reports:

Twitter said it locked President Donald Trump’s account after he shared the email address of a columnist Monday evening. The president posted a tweet praising and quoting a column in the New York Post by the journalist Miranda Devine that ran on Sunday night. In the column, Devine praised Trump, saying he overcame his battle with the coronavirus and showed commitment to his duties as president after his diagnosis. Health experts have said he is not “out of the woods.”

Trump followed up his post with a now deleted tweet in which he tacked on Devine’s email address, prompting what she told Sky News Australia was a barrage of abuse from people online. Twitter confirmed to Business Insider in an email that it then locked the president’s account after it found the tweet violated its private-information policy. The policy forbids users from publishing or posting “other people’s private information without their express authorization and permission.”

The account was unlocked after the tweet was deleted. Both Twitter and Facebook took action against other posts by Trump yesterday.