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special rapporteur on free expression, said on Thursday that Facebook had made the right call in banning Mr. Trump built his own social network, no other platform could offer him what Twitter and Facebook currently do: tens of millions of eyeballs from across the political spectrum, and a direct line to the assignment desks and control rooms of every news organization in the world.ĭavid Kaye, a law professor and former U.N. (On Wednesday night, Gab’s chief executive, Andrew Torba, said he was “in the process of connecting with President Trump’s team” about setting up the president’s account.)īut these apps are small and culturally insular, and wouldn’t likely satisfy the president’s desire for a mass audience. Trump, after a Twitter and Facebook ban, would be to move to one of the “alt-platforms” such as Parler and Gab, where many of his most ardent followers have flocked after being kicked off more mainstream apps. And he has expressed interest in starting his own digital media empire, where he could set his own rules. Trump airtime and attention even when he is a private citizen.

Newspapers and cable news stations, which have long treated anything a president said as inherently newsworthy, might not be able to resist giving Mr. There would still be Fox News, Newsmax, OANN and legions of pro-Trump partisans willing to repost his messages. Trump would still find ways to reach his followers without Facebook and Twitter, of course. Trump ever gets his accounts back, it’s clear that he has already jeopardized one of his most valuable assets: his ability to bully these companies into giving him a wide berth. “But that was all based on speech that was happening in the democratic process.” “You don’t want incredibly powerful information intermediaries deciding who has legitimate speech in a democracy,” Mr. Trump’s posts were an attack on democracy itself.

Trump’s account on free speech grounds, he changed his mind after Wednesday’s rampage because Mr. Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former security chief, said that although he once opposed banning Mr.
