No Tweets for You!

“SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday locked the accounts of President Trump, which prevents him from posting messages to his more than 88 million followers on Twitter and 35 million followers on Facebook, after he published a string of inaccurate and inflammatory messages on a day of violence in the nation’s capital.

“The moves were an unprecedented rebuke of Mr. Trump by the social media companies, which have long been megaphones for the president.”

—Kate Conger, Mike Isaac & Sheera Frenkel, reporters, “Twitter and Facebook Lock* Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill,” NYTimes, Jan. 6, 2021.

 

• Editorial Comment: *For 12 hours. Seems a little light for fomenting an insurrection against the government. 

  

 

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