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Twitter Blames ‘Outage’ After Trump Tweet, Naming Ukraine Whistleblower, Suddenly Disappears

Emily Zanotti
Twitter Blames ‘Outage’ After Trump Tweet, Naming Ukraine Whistleblower, Suddenly Disappears
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On Friday, President Donald Trump retweeted a social media post featuring the name of the alleged whistleblower whose testimony about a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian officials kicked off the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. On Saturday, however, the president’s tweet mysteriously vanished for some users, leaving many to suggest that Twitter had deliberately censored the President’s account.

Twitter now says the incident was an error caused by an “outage.”

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