Friday, December 30, 2016

How to Tweet if You’re in Government and Not Donald Trump: Write, Review, Edit, Seek Approval, Wait, Edit, (Maybe) Send

President-elect Donald Trump, poised to become the first tweeter-in-chief, will assume control of a federal bureaucracy that muffles its social-media presence under pages of rules; ‘Twitter committees’
In 2010, a top Justice Department official told the agency’s divisions they could set up Twitter accounts and he convened a “working group” to provide guidance on what, when and how the agency could tweet.
They’re still working on it.
President-elect Donald Trump is poised to become the first tweeter-in-chief, an executive comfortable making pronouncements on policy or companies with 140 characters. He will assume control of a federal bureaucracy that tries very hard to do the exact opposite, one that muffles its social-media presence under pages of rules to avoid making waves.
At the Justice Department, officials from the deputy attorney general’s office, the public affairs office, privacy lawyers, records management staffers and others are still trying to answer questions such as: When can staffers publicly distribute links to media articles? (Likely answer: rarely.) What if a U.S. attorney wrote the article? (Then it could be OK.) How about when the staffer herself is quoted in a story? (Never; it might look like she’s endorsing that publication.)
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