Thursday evening, a tweet from the Twitter account @Beegee133 made its way on to Twitter. The tweet was sent to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ Rapid Response Director Christina Pushaw. The tweet said, “if one person deserves every horrible thing that is coming her way especially rape its Christina.”
Pushaw reposted the threat by writing, “Violent Democrat of the day”.
After seeing the tweet, I like many reported it to Twitter. Late yesterday evening, I received a response for my report from Twitter. The social media platform claimed the rape threat did not violate its “safety policies”.
This email was obviously alarming. I reached out to Twitter this morning for a response. When I messaged them, the rape threat tweet was still on Twitter. Moments later, it was removed. Twitter has not responded to my request for comment.
