Nuked Trump’s supporters terrorized our elected representatives and their staffs and forced them to evacuate the seat of U.S. government.
Trump is now facing a ban from Facebook and Twitter. For more than four years he has polluted the Internet. Platforms have temporarily limited his ability to post.
Dean obeidallah: nobody with a rational bone in their body is confused about the intentions of the president. He argued that Twitter should ban Trump as a form of direct action. obeidallah: Trump has worked diligently since then to stoke partisan strife throughout the country.
Facebook and Twitter are not solely responsible for president’s damage, nor that of his supporters. Julian zelizer: these platforms have immense and unprecedented power over human speech. He says Trump has been largely exempt from the restrictions placed on those who speak against him. zelizer: Trump has proven that the platforms we’ve praised for expanding speech can be hijacked to assault it.
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have declared that a physical attack on democracy is the line that ca n’t be crossed by an American president. I hope they feel the same shock and fear millions of us felt on January 6th as we watched the inner sanctum of our democracy.
129 members of Congress voted to keep inflaming the misguided passions of those who have been deluded by Internet conspiracy theories. They supported the president’s lie that the election was stolen, even after the president directed his supporters to assault the Congress.
17 names have been added to this list following a vote to object to the results of the Pennsylvania election. The vote follows a vote in favor of the result of the election.
Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Cindy hyde-smith (r-ms) are among those who have lost control of the Senate. The U.S. Senate is voting on whether to take action in the United States Senate.
