Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Twitter community adds a context note to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr tweet:  The official Twitter account for Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr tweeted, “Since the assassination of my father in 1968, candidates for president are provided Secret Service protection.  But not me.   Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days.  After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups by our campaign, the Biden Administration just denied our request.  Secretary Mayorkas: "I have determined that Secret Service protection for Robert F Kennedy Jr is not warranted at this time."  Our campaign's request included a 67-page report from the world's leading protection firm, detailing unique and well established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats." Twitter added a label to the post that read "Readers added context they thought people might want to know.” The added context read "The Secret Service does not provide protection to non-incumbent Presidential candidates until 120 days before the general election. The next election is Nov. 5, 2024. July 8, 2024 is 120 days prior." The note included a link to support the assertion. The label is part of Twitter’s Community Notes system. Twitter users are able to sign up as contributors to add context to tweets.

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