A Twitter user who threatened the life of former President Barack Obama was allowed to stay on the app.
The user wrote in January, “I will kill Barack Hussein Obama until death in a field of battle.” In another tweet, he said, “United States Secret Service are going to kill me,” according to Forbes.
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The account continued to tweet after posting the alarming messages, and it retweeted content the same day.
Elon Musk, who has claimed to have implemented strict rules since acquiring the social media company for $44 billion last year, has faced a handful of similar situations in which he was accused of not taking appropriate action.
“Death threats should result in immediate account suspension. Lmk if that’s not happening,” Musk wrote on Feb. 24 on Twitter.
The Secret Service investigated the threats in February and reportedly spoke to the man behind them, who admitted to making threats toward Obama.
Musk claims his new rules are part of an effort to restore free speech, and he has allowed a slew of controversial figures back on Twitter. They often post threatening messages.
One of those figures is Andrew Anglin, a neo-Nazi who founded the white supremacist website the Daily Stormer. Anglin previously had his Twitter account banned in 2013. Anglin was arrested in November 2022 for ignoring a court order to pay $14 million over an antisemitic harassment campaign against a Montana woman’s family.
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While the threatening tweets against Obama have been removed, the user has continued to post on the app. In one recent post, Forbes stated he wrote that any president who goes against the Bill of Rights should be shot.
The Secret Service’s search warrant stated the user currently lives in Morehead, Kentucky. He has not been charged in a federal court.
