Twitter owner Elon Musk said the platform will be amending its rule about “showing blood” after the account of Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) was suspended due to a hunting photo he used as his profile picture.
Daines, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), was locked out of his account for hours after he uploaded a new profile picture, which shows him and his wife, Cindy, posing with a dead Montana antelope. Twitter flagged the image as a violation of the site’s standards against “graphic violence or adult content in profile images.”
“This is insane. Twitter should immediately reverse this suspension,” NRSC spokesman Philip Letsou said in a statement….