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Twitter now claims to be an essential human right

7 June 2021

12:06 PM

7 June 2021

12:06 PM

Where to start? 

Twitter outdid itself over the weekend when it ditched any semblance of modesty and decided to identify as an essential human right:

This ironic outburst came in response to the Nigerian government enforcing an indefinite suspension of the micro-blogging platform after it deleted a tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari. 

Whatever you may think of the current political situation in Nigeria, Twitter is struggling to come to terms with the reality of human conflict.

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