SAN FRANCISCO, CA—In a new feature rolling out to users today, Twitter is going to begin issuing a warning before you compare something to a concentration camp from Nazi Germany.
“It looks like you’re trying to compare something to a concentration camp,” the warning reads. “This is probably a terrible idea. Are you sure you want to go through with this?”
The user is then prompted to click “Confirm” before they go ahead and tweet comparing something from modern-day America to the horrifying genocide of “undesirables” in the 1930s and ’40s in Germany.
“This feature should prevent a lot of politicians and political activists and unemployed people from making a cringe-inducing comparison between a mild injustice and the horrors of the Holocaust,” said one Twitter representative. “We’re just trying to help out some of our favorite left-leaning politicians from putting their foot in their mouth again.”
Unfortunately, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quickly had her aides circumvent the feature on her account.
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