Twitter refuses widower's plea to remove trolling Trump tweets over death of his wife

Oliver O'Connell
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Twitter will not remove tweets by President Donald Trump that push a conspiracy theory about the death of a young woman almost twenty years ago, despite a heartfelt plea from her husband.

The president’s tweets accuse MSNBC host Joe Scarborough of playing a part in the 2001 death of Lori Klausutis, who worked in his congressional office in Florida when he served in the House of Representatives. Mr Scarborough was in Washington DC at the time of her death.

Timothy Klausutis, the widower of the late Ms Klausutis, sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey late last week pleading for the company to delete the tweets due to the pain they are causing him and his family.

Today, despite much media coverage, the company did not agree to remove the tweets, but that it would be making changes to address incidences such as this in the future.

It is possible they could be labelled as misleading information.

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