Twitter Deletes Ex-Malaysia PM’s Tweet Glorifying Nice Attack
Social media platform Twitter on Thursday, 30 October, deleted a tweet by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, for glorifying the Nice attack in which three people were killed.
France's Secretary for Digital Sector Cedric O, joined many people on social media, in condemning the post and urged the platform to suspend his account.
In a tweet, Cedric added:
“I just spoke with the Managing Director of Twitter France. The account of former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad must be immediately suspended. If not, Twitter would be an accomplice to a formal call for murder.”
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In a series of 13 tweets, Mahathir lashed out at the French government after President Emmanuel Macron's criticism after a school techer was beheaded for showing cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed in class.
"We often copy the ways of the West. We dress like them, we adopt their political systems, even some of their strange practices. But we have our own values, different as between races and religions, which we need to sustain," Mahathir wrote on Twitter.
“Generally, the West no longer adheres to their own religion. They are Christians in name only,” he took a dig.
While Twitter left the rest of the thread, it deleted one controversial tweet.
In a gory incident, a knife-wielding man killed two women and a man at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice and injured several others.
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