“The tweet was not complete,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said when asked about the deleted tweet. “It did not have that context.”
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, who took ownership of Twitter last week, hailed the correction saying the feature that produced it “was awesome”.
“Our goal is to make Twitter the most accurate source of information on Earth, without regard to political affiliation,” Musk tweeted.
US conservatives complain of censorship on the major social networks and Musk staunchly defends looser moderation of content on Twitter in the name of free speech.
But critics and government regulators defend content rules as key to limiting harassment, hate speech and misinformation.