Jason Miller, an adviser to Donald Trump, said the former US president plans to return to social media in the next two to three months with his own platform. He also stressed that Trump's platform will attract millions of new users and "completely redefine the game."
According to Miller, this issue will grab everyone's attention: "It will completely redefine the game and everyone will wait and watch what President Trump does, but it will be his own platform."
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Trump is trying to find a way to return to social media after being “exiled” from the most popular social media platforms in January. Specifically, Twitter and Facebook banned the former US President from posting on their platforms and blocked his accounts after his supporters attacked the Capitol. Snapchat, YouTube and other services took similar measures.
Popular social media platforms said they were removing Donald Trump in an effort to ban the platforms from being used to spread misinformation and incite violence. Before the bans were announced, Trump had posted several messages on Twitter and Facebook that contained unfounded claims about the election outcome (he claimed Biden's victory was the result of fraud). A video of the former president making these claims was removed from both platforms amid concerns about inciting more violence.
During his four years in office, Trump has been very active on social media, especially Twitter. Twitter often allowed comments that would normally violate its policies on appropriate content, but did so because it believed that tweets should be there for the public to see.
However, Twitter eventually began hiding Trump tweets that spread misinformation about the election and COVID-19, placing a warning label that included a link to more information. Users had to click on the link to read the post.
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Twitter CFO Ned Segalsaid last month that Trump would stay off the platform, even if he becomes US President again.
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“Our policies are designed to ensure that people do not incite violence and if someone does we must remove them from the service and our policies do not allow for the return of these people,” Segal said.
While president, Donald Trump has had a contentious relationship with social media, accusing many platforms of bias against conservatives. In 2018, he accused Twitter of restricting conservatives through its shadow banning. Twitter said it was a mistake. Shadow banning is a practice in which a comment or post is only visible to the user who created it.
Source: CNET
