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For repeated violations of policy.
Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening.
āAfter close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,ā Twitter said.
āIn the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action.ā
Twitterās decision followed two tweets by Trump Friday afternoon that would end up being his last. The tweets violated the companyās policy against glorification of violence, Twitter said, and āthese two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the Presidentās statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks.ā
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Twitter bans President Trump permanently
Twitter has suspended President Donald Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening.www.cnn.com
Elon Musk, the worldās richest person, is actively using X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he bought in 2022, to promote his far-right political interests. Vittoria Elliott at WIRED writes that Musk has made the platform āhis own personal political bullhorn.ā Tech journalist Casey Newton says that X is now ājust a political project.ā
Even before his endorsement of former President Donald Trump in July, Musk had already changed X in substantial ways that favor MAGA politics and personalities. He restored accounts of far-right figures such as white nationalist Nick Fuentes and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, relaxed content moderation policies, and disposed of much of the companyās trust and safety and election integrity teams.
But after the endorsement, Muskās efforts on behalf of the Trump campaign appeared to surge. He launched a political action committee dedicated to Trumpās reelection. He hosted a livestream with the former president, whom Musk coaxed back onto the platform after he was previously banned for incitement to violence after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S, Capitol. According to The New York Times, Musk āhired a Republican operative with expertise in field organizingā to help direct his political activities. And according to Trump, Musk has agreed to head a āgovernment efficiencyā task force that aims to make ārecommendations for drastic reformsā across the entire federal government should Trump win a second term. All the while, Musk continues to promote his preferred brand of politics through posts on his own account, which has close to 200 million followers (and frequently appears in usersā feed as recommended content whether they follow him or not).
While it may be jarring for users and others who hoped the platform might not succumb so completely to the interests of its singular owner, it is Muskās prerogative to shape X to his tastes. No social media platform is truly politically neutral. And it is not a novel circumstance that the singular owner of a platform has such extraordinary influence over its operations, policies, and political decisions. But Muskās use of X to try to influence the 2024 U.S. election is the most extreme example to date of a person in his position using a major social media platform for a specific political outcome. It is so blatant and outside the norm, it can be considered a class of its own.
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Musk, X, and Trump 2024: Where are the Legal and Ethical Boundaries?
The limits and ability of social media companies to influence the outcome of elections.www.justsecurity.org
Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It
Washington is filled with lobbying offices and fund-raisers because powerful interests believe something is gained when dollars are spent. They are right. We have come to expect and accept a grotesque level of daily corruption in American politics ā abetted by a series of Supreme Court rulings that give money the protections of speech and by congressional Republicans who have fought even modest campaign finance reforms. But we have at least some rules to limit moneyās power in politics and track its movements.
The same cannot be said for attention. If Trump saves TikTok and, in return, TikTok boosts pro-Trump content before the 2026 elections to help it go viral, would that be illegal? Perhaps. But would we even know it had happened? If Elon Musk turns the dials on X to tilt the conversation in the Republican Partyās direction before the 2028 elections, who will stop him?
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Opinion | Trump Has Something He Would Like to Bring to Your Attention
Attention is the fuel of American politics, and Trump knows it.www.nytimes.com
Color me concerned that trump, who doesn't even have a passing regard for the law or ethical norms, already has the most powerful social media platform (as long as he and Elon don't have a falling out)) in his back pocket, owns one of his own, and has already been promoted on Tik Tok for thwarting a bipartisan law passed by Congress.
The influence of the combined, unchecked, disinformation being spewed on social media, far right internet sites, and cable propagandists like Fox, has never been seen before. It's an authoritarian's dream. But hey, I'm sure it will turn out okay.![]()
You mean the end of liberalism and the continuation of free speech.For repeated violations of policy.
Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening.
āAfter close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,ā Twitter said.
āIn the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action.ā
Twitterās decision followed two tweets by Trump Friday afternoon that would end up being his last. The tweets violated the companyās policy against glorification of violence, Twitter said, and āthese two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the Presidentās statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks.ā
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Twitter bans President Trump permanently
Twitter has suspended President Donald Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening.www.cnn.com
to promote his far-right political interests
And yet a manifestly unfit man won the presidency despite a litany of criminal indictments, a criminal conviction, serial sexual abuse, pathological lying, overt bigotry, ...............................
Elon Musk, the worldās richest person, is actively using X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he bought in 2022,
Elon Musk, the worldās richest person, is actively using X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he bought in 2022, to promote his far-right political interests. Vittoria Elliott at WIRED writes that Musk has made the platform āhis own personal political bullhorn.ā Tech journalist Casey Newton says that X is now ājust a political project.ā
Even before his endorsement of former President Donald Trump in July, Musk had already changed X in substantial ways that favor MAGA politics and personalities. He restored accounts of far-right figures such as white nationalist Nick Fuentes and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, relaxed content moderation policies, and disposed of much of the companyās trust and safety and election integrity teams.
But after the endorsement, Muskās efforts on behalf of the Trump campaign appeared to surge. He launched a political action committee dedicated to Trumpās reelection. He hosted a livestream with the former president, whom Musk coaxed back onto the platform after he was previously banned for incitement to violence after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S, Capitol. According to The New York Times, Musk āhired a Republican operative with expertise in field organizingā to help direct his political activities. And according to Trump, Musk has agreed to head a āgovernment efficiencyā task force that aims to make ārecommendations for drastic reformsā across the entire federal government should Trump win a second term. All the while, Musk continues to promote his preferred brand of politics through posts on his own account, which has close to 200 million followers (and frequently appears in usersā feed as recommended content whether they follow him or not).
While it may be jarring for users and others who hoped the platform might not succumb so completely to the interests of its singular owner, it is Muskās prerogative to shape X to his tastes. No social media platform is truly politically neutral. And it is not a novel circumstance that the singular owner of a platform has such extraordinary influence over its operations, policies, and political decisions. But Muskās use of X to try to influence the 2024 U.S. election is the most extreme example to date of a person in his position using a major social media platform for a specific political outcome. It is so blatant and outside the norm, it can be considered a class of its own.
![]()
Musk, X, and Trump 2024: Where are the Legal and Ethical Boundaries?
The limits and ability of social media companies to influence the outcome of elections.www.justsecurity.org
Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It
Washington is filled with lobbying offices and fund-raisers because powerful interests believe something is gained when dollars are spent. They are right. We have come to expect and accept a grotesque level of daily corruption in American politics ā abetted by a series of Supreme Court rulings that give money the protections of speech and by congressional Republicans who have fought even modest campaign finance reforms. But we have at least some rules to limit moneyās power in politics and track its movements.
The same cannot be said for attention. If Trump saves TikTok and, in return, TikTok boosts pro-Trump content before the 2026 elections to help it go viral, would that be illegal? Perhaps. But would we even know it had happened? If Elon Musk turns the dials on X to tilt the conversation in the Republican Partyās direction before the 2028 elections, who will stop him?
![]()
Opinion | Trump Has Something He Would Like to Bring to Your Attention
Attention is the fuel of American politics, and Trump knows it.www.nytimes.com
Color me concerned that trump, who doesn't even have a passing regard for the law or ethical norms, already has the most powerful social media platform (as long as he and Elon don't have a falling out)) in his back pocket, owns one of his own, and has already been promoted on Tik Tok for thwarting a bipartisan law passed by Congress.
The influence of the combined, unchecked, disinformation being spewed on social media, far right internet sites, and cable propagandists like Fox, has never been seen before. It's an authoritarian's dream. But hey, I'm sure it will turn out okay.![]()
Legal and ethical constraints are in the bin.Elon Musk, the worldās richest person, is actively using X (formerly Twitter), the social media platform he bought in 2022, to promote his far-right political interests. Vittoria Elliott at WIRED writes that Musk has made the platform āhis own personal political bullhorn.ā Tech journalist Casey Newton says that X is now ājust a political project.ā
Even before his endorsement of former President Donald Trump in July, Musk had already changed X in substantial ways that favor MAGA politics and personalities. He restored accounts of far-right figures such as white nationalist Nick Fuentes and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, relaxed content moderation policies, and disposed of much of the companyās trust and safety and election integrity teams.
But after the endorsement, Muskās efforts on behalf of the Trump campaign appeared to surge. He launched a political action committee dedicated to Trumpās reelection. He hosted a livestream with the former president, whom Musk coaxed back onto the platform after he was previously banned for incitement to violence after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S, Capitol. According to The New York Times, Musk āhired a Republican operative with expertise in field organizingā to help direct his political activities. And according to Trump, Musk has agreed to head a āgovernment efficiencyā task force that aims to make ārecommendations for drastic reformsā across the entire federal government should Trump win a second term. All the while, Musk continues to promote his preferred brand of politics through posts on his own account, which has close to 200 million followers (and frequently appears in usersā feed as recommended content whether they follow him or not).
While it may be jarring for users and others who hoped the platform might not succumb so completely to the interests of its singular owner, it is Muskās prerogative to shape X to his tastes. No social media platform is truly politically neutral. And it is not a novel circumstance that the singular owner of a platform has such extraordinary influence over its operations, policies, and political decisions. But Muskās use of X to try to influence the 2024 U.S. election is the most extreme example to date of a person in his position using a major social media platform for a specific political outcome. It is so blatant and outside the norm, it can be considered a class of its own.
![]()
Musk, X, and Trump 2024: Where are the Legal and Ethical Boundaries?
The limits and ability of social media companies to influence the outcome of elections.www.justsecurity.org
Attention Is the Fuel of American Politics, and Trump Knows It
Washington is filled with lobbying offices and fund-raisers because powerful interests believe something is gained when dollars are spent. They are right. We have come to expect and accept a grotesque level of daily corruption in American politics ā abetted by a series of Supreme Court rulings that give money the protections of speech and by congressional Republicans who have fought even modest campaign finance reforms. But we have at least some rules to limit moneyās power in politics and track its movements.
The same cannot be said for attention. If Trump saves TikTok and, in return, TikTok boosts pro-Trump content before the 2026 elections to help it go viral, would that be illegal? Perhaps. But would we even know it had happened? If Elon Musk turns the dials on X to tilt the conversation in the Republican Partyās direction before the 2028 elections, who will stop him?
![]()
Opinion | Trump Has Something He Would Like to Bring to Your Attention
Attention is the fuel of American politics, and Trump knows it.www.nytimes.com
Color me concerned that trump, who doesn't even have a passing regard for the law or ethical norms, already has the most powerful social media platform (as long as he and Elon don't have a falling out)) in his back pocket, owns one of his own, and has already been promoted on Tik Tok for thwarting a bipartisan law passed by Congress.
The influence of the combined, unchecked, disinformation being spewed on social media, far right internet sites, and cable propagandists like Fox, has never been seen before. It's an authoritarian's dream. But hey, I'm sure it will turn out okay.![]()
I would ask why you folks constantly conflate harmful disinformation with free speech but I already know.Oh my....it was fine when zuck and dorsey were using their platforms for the bidding of the demo, and biden was telling zuck to censor people...it's bad now when repubs control these things?
Who determines what "misinformation" is? We are finding out now that it was, in fact, not misinformation.I would ask why you folks constantly conflate harmful disinformation with free speech but I already know.
Supreme Court allows White House to press social media companies to remove disinformation
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the White House and federal agencies such as the FBI may continue to urge social media platforms to take down content the government views as misinformation, handing the Biden administration a technical if important election-year victory.
Of immediate significance, the decision means that the Department of Homeland Security may continue to flag posts to social media companies such as Facebook and X that it believes may be the work of foreign agents seeking to disrupt this yearās presidential race.
No, what they are actually saying is, conservative and right wing speech can't be allowed. If it is Marxist speech?
That's just fine.
That's what the marching orders are for all establishment news and media now.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Says Free Speech Doesn't Apply to Far Right Positions
Jan 21, 2025
Wrong.Who determines what "misinformation" is? We are finding out now that it was, in fact, not misinformation.
Wrong.
Whereād ya see em?Huh, I could have sworn i saw articles that said social distancing and masks had little effect..
Whereād ya see em?
Gatewaypundit?
Whatever. I donāt know why these particular orgs said what they said. Frankly I donāt care.Public Email
le.utah.gov
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The C.D.C. concedes that cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively as other masks. (Published 2022)
The update in guidance comes as coronavirus cases continue to soar.www.nytimes.com
These articles suggest the cheap cloth masks were not very effective at stopping covid.
6 foot rule was inadequate.Loadingā¦
fox40.com
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COVID ā6-feetā social distancing āsort of just appeared,ā likely lacked scientific basis, Fauci admits
Dr. Anthony Fauci confessed to lawmakers Tuesday that guidelines to keep six feet of separation ā ostensibly to limit the spread of COVID-19 ā āsort of just appearedā withouā¦nypost.com
6 foot rule not based on scientific data.