With President Donald Trump’s tenure coming to an end at the White House, the 45th President of the United States is all set to lose the immunity given to world leaders from social media guideline and rules.

Social media giants Twitter and Facebook let politicians speak their mind on their respective platforms in order to facilitate communication with people.

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However, this immunity of limited checks and balances with the flagging of hateful and misleading posts, a loophole accorded to politicians, is not awarded to the general populace.

Hence, President Trump will lose any such special treatment once he leaves the office, allowing inaccurate posts made by him, which were previously flagged, masked by warnings or amended with labels, to be deleted or qualify for deletion.

“Twitter’s approach to world leaders, candidates and public officials is based on the principle that people should be able to choose to see what their leaders are saying with clear context,” reported AFP quoting a spokesman for Trump’s go-to messaging platform.

He added, “This policy framework applies to current world leaders and candidates for office, and not private citizens when they no longer hold these positions.”

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Casey Fiesler, a professor at the University of Colorado, stated that the rationale behind social media platforms not removing contents of world leaders is, “ because what they say is important for us to know.”

“I don’t know that I would describe that as leniency. But it’s certainly a different way that their policy is applied,” added Fiesler.

As per policy standards of Twitter, accounts of world leaders, however, are not immune from removal. Twitter states that tweets by leaders promoting terrorism, giving threats of violence or publicly posting of personal information is within the ambit of removal.

The fact that President Trump has posted spurious data that undermines the integrity of the election procedure, and has also falsely claimed victory is important for US citizens to know, reasons academics, while acknowledging such rhetoric is dangerous for democracy, as per AFP.

While Twitter decided to label false information posted by Trump as misleading and had on one occasion limited the reach of his comments for violating the platform’s policy on violence, social media network Facebook, however, has taken a different approach.

Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg has resisted setting limits on Trump’s speech stating, “the best way to hold politicians accountable is through voting, and I believe we should trust voters to make judgments for themselves.”

The social media conglomerate, however, was forced to tighten loose ends ahead of the 2020 US Presidential elections, banning last-minute political ads and misinformation pertaining to voting. It also decided to flag premature claims of victory.

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Once Trump loses his protected status he could end up as persona non grata, reported AFP quoting Professor Hany Farid, of University of California, Berkeley.

Twitter had on Friday banned former Trump aide and advisor Steve Bannon over his controversial rhetoric on calling for the execution of federal officials.