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There was no 'filter' prior to Trump.
It was created specially for him, for Twitter to be able to sabotage his tweets.
You will see that Twitter will not censor biden or any of the democrats anywhere.
Filter was creared because he was saying legit dangerous shit on protests and COVID. People have been shot and that "kung flu" spread like wildfire.
Twitter had to go in damage control mode.
The worrying part is why a lot of people (expecially liberals) ask private companies to be responsible for what a politician says. Twitter nor Facebook used this maliciously yet, partly because the ones who pressured them into doing this are also the ones who are capable of fact checking, partly because there was objectively little time to put effective structures in place, thus they had to rely on third parties debunking all the shit Trump writes.
I hope this stops now anyway.
But my opinion is when a politician says something provably and maliciously false there have to be real consequences for them, there are already a lot of people who don't seem to get the difference between truth and lies and this can only get worse.