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Trump, Twitter and the messy fight over free speech
The decision to ban the President has demonstrated the unaccountable power of the big social media companies.
San Francisco | The decision to bar the US President from the most powerful communication platforms of the age has all the ingredients of a singularly American brawl.
There is Donald Trump’s exploitation of a powerful strand of nativist populism to try to stay in power and the highly partisan right-wing media that have helped fan the election-rigging conspiracy theory that led to last week’s insurrection in the Capitol.
Financial Times
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