Twitter wants to know if you think world leaders should be given special treatment

Twitter is planning to revise its policies towards world leaders, and is looking for information on how these policies should be. Twitter is doing a poll from March 19 to April 12 and says, in general, that it wants to know “whether or not [the public] believe[s] world leaders must be subject to the same rules as others on Twitter. “

The survey provides a hypothetical situation and a list of possible actions it should take. He also asks questions like whether leaders should face more, less or the same amount of scrutiny as other accounts and whether it is okay for the platform to ban an incumbent president or prime minister.

From Twitter current rules for world leaders were set in October 2019, but a lot has happened since then. In January 2021, Twitter banned then-US President Donald Trump for his tweets encouraging the Capitol crowd. The ban followed months of the platform trying to figure out how to deal with him and other world leaders in Venezuela and Brazil tweeting misinformation about the coronavirus.

Of course, Twitter will not just take public opinion and execute it. The company also says it will consult with “human rights experts, civil society organizations and academics” from around the world. Twitter also plans to launch the survey in 14 different languages, but it is currently only available in English. If you would like to give your opinion, you can take the survey here.