A UK Member of Parliament grilled a top Twitter executive over why the company allows posts from the Chinese Embassy that she said justify an alleged genocide but permanently kicked then-president Donald Trump off the platform. Twitter’s global head of public policy strategy and development, Nick Pickles, on Wednesday answered questions from members of the UK Home Affairs Select Committee during a session on online harms. Conservative MP Ruth Edwards challenged Pickles on what she says is an inconsistency in the way the platform applies its policies. “On one hand you have President Trump’s account suspended for inciting violence,” she said. “Fine. But on the other hand, your platform continues to allow a platform to embassies of the Chinese government based all over the world to defend and justify the violence and the genocide which they are carrying out against their own people.” Pickles said that Twitter now puts an …