Germany's Merkel Calls Twitter's Decision to Ban Trump 'Problematic'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel considers U.S. President Donald Trump’s eviction from Twitter by the company “problematic,” her spokesman said. Asked about Twitter’s decision, Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, said the operators of social media platforms “bear great responsibility for political communication not being poisoned by hatred, by lies and by incitement to violence,” but he also said that the freedom of opinion is a fundamental right of “elementary significance.”

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