Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, June 27th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Twitter still allows public figures to break its rules, but it will warn you when they do.

Zuckerberg says you need him on that wall.

The US Wireless Emergency Alert System can easily be spoofed, and the mystery that is superhuman. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. Following endless criticism, Twitter announced today that it is rolling out a notification

system for tweets from political figures, verified users, and accounts with more than 100,000 followers that break its guidelines.

See, the criticism has been, if you're a big enough public figure, you can say or do whatever you want on Twitter, even things that are obviously

in violation of their user guidelines, even things that mere mortal users would face immediate

outright bans for.

If a tweet is flagged as violating platform rules, a team of people from across the company

will decide whether it is a, quote, matter of public interest and, quote, if so, a light gray box will appear before the

tweet notifying users that it's in violation but it will remain available to

users who click through the box in theory this could preserve the tweet as part of the public record

without allowing it to be promoted to new audiences through the Twitter

platform. If a tweet receives this notice Twitter will feature it less on

the platform. It will no longer appear in safe

search, the top tweets timeline, live events pages, recommended push notifications,

the notifications tab or the explore page. The notice will not be applied retroactively and it will only appear on

tweets in violation beginning today. In the past we've allowed certain tweets that violated

our rules to remain on Twitter because they were in the public's interest, but it wasn't clear when and how we made those determinations, Twitter's safety team wrote in a blog post.

Serving the public conversation includes providing the ability for anyone to talk about what matters to them.

This can be especially important when engaging with government officials and political figures, end quote.

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