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Earlier this month, the guy who lied over 25,000 times while in office (that we KNOW of) was bounced from Twitter, and misinformation on the platform dropped 73%. Coincidence? Antifa? Did Kayleigh McEnany forget her password to log on?
It’s pretty easy to connect the dots.
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond Scoffs At Trump Blaming Twitter Ban For His Silence: The White House Podium Is ‘Still In Working Order’ https://t.co/XJ3xBoI3pi
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) January 18, 2021
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Biden won by more than seven million votes. And that’s with the GOP’s rampant voter suppression derailing our postal system with Trump-stooge Louis DeJoy (who will hopefully be going to DeJail) getting rid of drop-off boxes in large cities with minorities, not permitting ex-felons to vote, setting up fake drop-off boxes, “poll watchers” sent to intimidate, and God knows what else they didn’t announce.
Once Trump was Twitter-less, lies about election fraud and everything being rigged plummeted from 2.5 million mentions down to 688,000.
If anything we've underestimated how important Trump's twitter ban is going to be.
It will literally transform the next phase in the history of the GOP, and thus the whole political landscape. It's all different now.
I explain here: https://t.co/5b2aGR4sRQ
— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) January 18, 2021
Screenshot of Donald J. Trump’s tweet.
It was also everyone Trump-adjacent. Four days after Benedict Donald was banned from the site, Twitter removed another 70,000 accounts “engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content.”
In fact, a study by Election Integrity Partnership found that just twenty pro-Trump Twitter accounts were responsible for 20% of retweets about voting misinformation. And this data was compiled before the election.
On Jan. 11, Facebook finally started to remove content with the phrase “Stop the Steal.” And it only took Mark Zuckerberg 69 days after the election to figure out that the propaganda that was good for his business might be bad for America. For those of you without a calendar handy, that’s also five days after the insurrection/coup/MAGA massacre at the Capitol.
Regardless of carnage, math or reality, the twice-impeached always delusional president continues to declare victory.
The president has continued to tell advisers and allies he really won the election, with less than 48 hours to go before he leaves office. On the current GOP rift, the president's anger is with every Republican who voted for impeachment but singular for McCarthy, aides say.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 18, 2021
The Jan. 8 Twitter ban will go down in infamy.
But the Jan. 20 White House ban will be even more monumental.
