#Twitter’s policing problem

After permanently banning then-President Donald Trump from its platform, Twitter took only seconds to delete a defiant tweet from his official government account. Yet it’s not nearly so fleet-footed about child pornography and death threats. So can anyone buy its claims to police without bias?

According to a federal lawsuit filed this week in California, Twitter took more than a month, refusing countless pleas along the way, to remove widely viewed images and videos of a teen sex-trafficking victim. The suit, filed by the victim and his mom, accuses Twitter of making money off the child-porn clips, which the victim says traffickers blackmailed him into making when he was 13.

One even included a second child, yet when the clips showed up on Twitter in 2019, the company refused to remove them, saying it “didn’t find a violation” of its “policies.”

“What do you mean you don’t see a problem? We both are minors right now and were minors at the time these videos were taken,” the victim responded, including a law-enforcement case number. He became suicidal after classmates saw the videos and started harassing him, the lawsuit says. But Twitter did nothing until a federal agent got involved, only then suspending the accounts, which were known hubs for child porn.

Twitter’s response to The Post’s inquiries was laughable: “Twitter has zero-tolerance for any material that features or promotes child sexual exploitation,” a spokesperson said.

This week, Twitter took 17 hours to suspend an account under the name of Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, after it tweeted a death threat to Trump. The tweet pictured a likeness of Trump on a golf course and promised “Revenge is inevitable” for the ex-president’s order a year ago to kill Iranian commander and terrorist Qassem Soleimani.

Twitter later determined that account was fake, but it has failed to delete countless hateful and violent tweets from the real Khamenei over the years.

It also took two days this month to suspend the account of China’s US embassy after it tweeted that it had “emancipated” Uighur women by ensuring they were “no longer baby-making machines” — a chilling spin on Beijing’s concentration camps for Uighers and forced sterilizations.

All the evidence suggests Twitter doesn’t police according to any neutral standards, but with an eye on what bothers its woke workforce.