Social networking giant Meta announced Tuesday it would soon reinstate former president Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram with “new guardrails,” two years after he was banned over the 2021 US Capitol insurrection. “We will be reinstating Mr. Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks,” Nick Clegg,Continue Reading
Having been kicked off Twitter, Donald Trump is making good on his promise to launch his own social media platform. The new venture is TRUTH Social and it is the former US president’s attempt to “fight back against Big Tech”. TRUTH Social comes from the newly created Trump Media and Technology Group and DigitalContinue Reading
Trump’s “free speech” case is likely doomed by First Amendment and Section 230. Former President Donald Trump today sued Twitter, Facebook, Google subsidiary YouTube, and their CEOs, claiming that all three companies are guilty of “impermissible censorship” that violates “the First Amendment right to free speech.” Trump’s lawsuits are almostContinue Reading
The account, @DJTDesk, was suspended for violating Twitter’s policies. Twitter barred Trump from the site earlier this year after the Capitol insurrection. Twitter blocked former President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to get back on the social-media site. A new account called @DJTDesk on Thursday morning said it had been suspendedContinue Reading
Donald Trump has launched a new “communications” website, which says it will publish content “straight from the desk” of the former US president. Mr Trump was banned by Twitter and suspended by Facebook and YouTube after the Capitol riots in January. The former president has since been releasing statements byContinue Reading
Despite Trump’s defeat in November by Democrat Joe Biden, he remains influential in the Republican Party. Donald Trump plans to return to social media soon, using “his own platform” after being banned from Twitter and other outlets, a former advisor said Sunday. “I do think that we’re going to seeContinue Reading
Trump’s YouTube channel will be suspended for at least another week. engadget.com YouTube will continue blocking Donald Trump’s official channel from uploading new videos and livestreams for a minimum of seven more days. The Google—owned video platform told CNBC and Bloomberg that it extended the channel’s suspension “[i]n light of concerns about the ongoing potential forContinue Reading
Twitter and Facebook suspended Donald Trump’s accounts for the first time, finally escalating their crackdown on the president’s social media posts after he encouraged and supported rioters at the US Capitol. Twitter required Mr Trump to delete certain posts after “repeated and severe” violations of its rules on election misinformation,Continue Reading