“Trump’s re-shared tweets help shield him from Twitter’s bans”

Jennifer Grygiel, assistant professor of communications in the Newhouse School was interviewed for The Washington Post story titled “Trump’s re-shared tweets help shield him from Twitter’s bans.” President Trump’s reelection campaign account was recently suspended for posting a tweet that violated Twitter’s policies, but when President Trump personally shared the video he retained access to his account. The way Trump shared the tweet made it harder to spot that the content was shared from another Twitter user, which Grygiel says Trump does to make his posts seem more influential. “I think that he knows that his @realdonaldtrump account is pretty much immune to most things except for some of these direct violations,” says Grygiel.