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By Melina Delkic
After the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald J. Trump suggested that social media sites, which added Twitter and Facebook, restrict hate speech and glorify violence on their platforms.
January 6, 2021: “These are the things and occasions that take place when a sacred landslide electoral victory is unceremoniously and so viciously stripped of wonderful patriots who have been treated badly and unfairly for so long,” Mr. Other’s posts come with a video telling his followers to “go home now,” while giving them encouragement like “I know how they feel. “Twitter and Facebook removed some of the posts and say the president will be suspended at least until the next day.
January 7, 2021: Facebook bans Trump until the end of his term or until January 20. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s top executive, said the dangers of Trump using the service were too great. Mr. Trump posts a video on Twitter saying he will make a nonviolent transition of power.
January 8, 2021: Twitter permanently excludes Trump from its service “due to additional incitement to violence,” cutting him off his favorite megaphone.
January 10, 2021: Stripped of a platform, Trump faces the challenge of finding a new way to get attention.
June 4, 2021: Facebook updates its position on the postponement of M’s account. Trump, saying it would last at least two years. Facebook also says it will end a policy of handling politicians’ posts than other users.
June 7, 2021: Times reporters analyze many online statements and publications and find that Trump’s most ardent supporters continued to spread his message after the ban, doing the things he himself hadn’t done.
February 18, 2022: Truth Social, Trump’s Twitter choice, has had to delay its launch, even as the box of sites posing as freer platforms becomes more crowded.
April 27, 2022: Truth Social is flooded with fake accounts and features that don’t work, writes our technical review.
May 6, 2022: A federal judgment in San Francisco, saying it is not convinced that Twitter has violated Mr. Trump, rejects Mr. Trump’s lawsuit against the company.
May 10, 2022: Elon Musk, who is in the process of buying Twitter, says he would “cancel the permanent ban” on Trump and allow him to return to the social network if the deal is successful.
May 13, 2022: Elon Musk said in a tweet that his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter is “temporarily suspended” until he can get more important points to verify that spam and fake accounts account for less than 5% of the social network’s total. Number of users.
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