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Twitter Blocks French Government’s Posts, Citing Its Own ‘Fake News’ Law

Due to technical issues involving country’s new anti-fake news law.

Twitter told the French government that it will not allow posts from its new voter-registration campaign due to issues with the country’s anti-fake news law, The Independent reported Wednesday. The law, enacted in December, requires all online political campaigns to disclose “fair, clear, and transparent” information about who paid for them and how much was spent, BBC reports. But because Twitter hasn’t yet figured out how to include that information, it’s reportedly banning French political campaigning entirely on the platform. That includes the French government’s #Ouijevote (yes, I vote) campaign, which aims to register citizens for the upcoming parliamentary elections. The move has infuriated French lawmakers: “Twitter’s priority should be to fight content that glorifies terrorism,” Interior Minister Christophe Castanter tweeted. “Not campaigns to register on the electoral lists of a democratic republic.”