Facebook will keep Trump ban in place
Facebook’s Oversight Board ruled to uphold the company’s decision to indefinitely suspend former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Facebook first suspended Trump’s accounts following the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. The suspension was Facebook’s most aggressive action against Trump during his four-year term.
“We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his Facebook page at the time.
Twitter Thwarts Trump's Latest Attempt To Get Back On Platform, Bans New Account
Former President Donald Trump’s most recent attempt to get a platform has been upended.
On the heels of the launch of his new webpage, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” on Wednesday, the former president’s team created the handle @DJTDesk on Twitter. By Wednesday night, the account had been suspended.
“As stated in our ban evasion policy, we’ll take enforcement action on accounts whose apparent intent is to replace or promote content affiliated with a suspended account,” a spokesperson for Twitter said in a statement.
Trump’s “From the Desk” page is essentially a blog with a timeline format that resembles both Twitter and Facebook’s platforms. In the site’s brief life thus far, Trump has made a series of scattered, combative posts attacking the likes of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). He also lambasted Twitter, Facebook and Google by name.
Trump shuts down his blog after less than a month
The blog page that former President Donald Trump launched less than one month ago, after his team suggested he'd be launching a major new social platform, has been permanently shuttered.
Jason Miller, a senior aide to Trump, told CNBC that the page "will not be returning."
Most of the Trump written statements through May, which include falsehoods about alleged "election fraud" and attacks on Biden and anti-Trump Republicans, still appear on the ex-president's website.
Trump aides announced the blog on May 4, releasing a video that advertised "straight from the desk of Donald J. Trump" and included references to his banning from social media.
Twitter and Facebook banned Trump after his statements in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in which his supporters tried to halt the counting of electoral votes that elected Biden.
Trump's critics relished the demise of the blog.
Tweeted the anti-Trump Lincoln Project: "Gone, but [easily] forgotten."
... the blog site was poorly constructed consisting mostly of long blocks of unbroken text that few people would ever read. The site rec'd little viewership while continuing to pander for donations.
Creating a successful blog that attracts and retains readers is hard work and Trump was not up to the task. He is used to writing only short tweets that got retweeted and picked up by many media outlets. His musings and gripes were largely ignored by the media as a sign of his declining influence.
wow 6 months out of office and he's still living in y'alls head.... TDS much?
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