SOCIAL MEDIA: “Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) has restored former U.S. President Donald Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone confirmed on Thursday, following a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Meta in January said it would lift Trump’s suspension ‘in the coming weeks’ and would institute […]
Tag: Facebook
1/2/2023
SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook has lost over 80 Billion Dollars in Value since ‘deplatforming’ President Donald J. Trump. Also, it has gotten very BORING and UNINTERESTING. That stupid, unnecessary, and probably illegal move is now considered a major business mistake. I agree!” -Donald Trump, Truth Social, January 2, 2023 […]
8/29/2022
2020 ELECTION/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump demanded reinstatement as president or ‘a new Election, immediately’ after news that Facebook temporarily limited a controversial story about Hunter Biden’s laptop in users’ news feeds before the 2020 election. Trump was responding to Facebook, now Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comments on Joe Rogan’s podcast that a New […]
8/3/2022
LAWSUIT/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “A federal judge on Wednesday [August 3, 2022] stayed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit demanding YouTube reinstate his social media account pending Trump’s appeal of the dismissal of his case against Twitter… Trump wants the judge to order YouTube to restore his account after being indefinitely suspended so that he can sell merchandise […]
10/28/2021
2020 ELECTION/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump criticized Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, in a statement. Trump said the $400 million donation that Zuckerberg made to local election offices last year makes him a “criminal.” ‘Mark Zuckerberg, in my opinion, a criminal, is allowed to spend over $400 million and therefore able to change the […]
9/14/2021
LAWSUIT/SOCIAL MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY: “So now it’s determined in a major Wall Street Journal article that Facebook is secretly protecting its so-called ‘Elite,’ making them exempt from rules. Facebook and Big Tech are so corrupt (‘unlocked boxes,’ etc.), this should help my lawsuit against Big Tech, and those people who hate America.” -Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald […]
7/7/2021
LAWSUIT/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he will lead a lawsuit over alleged censorship against Twitter, Facebook and Google – three tech companies that removed him from their platforms after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The lawsuit will be a class-action, with Trump […]
6/4/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook said on Friday [June 4, 2021] that Donald J. Trump’s suspension from the service would last at least two years, keeping the former president off mainstream social media for the 2022 midterm elections, as the company also said it would end a policy of treating posts from politicians differently from those of […]
6/4/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA: “Next time I’m in the White House there will be no more dinners, at his request, with Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. It will be all business!” -Donald Trump, “Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America,” donaldjtrump.com, June 4, 2021 […]
5/5/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA: “A Facebook-appointed panel of journalists, activists and lawyers on Wednesday upheld the social network’s ban of former President Donald J. Trump, ending any immediate return by Mr. Trump to mainstream social media and renewing a debate about tech power over online speech… But the board also kicked the case back to Facebook and […]
5/5/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA: “What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before. […]
5/4/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: “Former President Trump on Tuesday [May 4, 2021] launched a communications platform, which will eventually give him the ability to communicate directly with his followers, after months of being banned from sites like Twitter and Facebook. The platform, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” appears on www.DonaldJTrump.com/desk… The space allows Trump […]
3/31/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: “Facebook removed a video featuring former President Donald Trump, a company spokesperson confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday, citing the former president’s indefinite suspension from the platform. The removal tests just how far Facebook is willing to interpret its suspension, which followed the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The […]
3/22/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: “Trump senior advisor Jason Miller told Fox News that Trump is reviewing proposals to launch a social media endeavor of his own. ‘I do think that we’re going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform,’ said Miller… A possible […]
2/10/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Twitter will uphold its ban on former President Donald Trump, even if he were to run for office again, according to the company’s chief financial officer… ‘Our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence,’ Segal said.’“He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for […]
1/7/2021
BIDEN TRANSITION/SOCIAL MEDIA: “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden. His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his […]
1/1/2021
2020 ELECTION/DEFENSE/GEORGIA/GOP/SOCIAL MEDIA/TECHNOLOGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Republicans should have gotten rid of Section 230 in the Defense Bill, and you wouldn’t have had this problem. Never learn!!! RT @NRSC Big Tech is at it again. Facebook has shut down the ad account for the Georgia Battleground Fund, a joint fundraising committee for NRSC [National Republican Senate […]
11/1/2020
2020 ELECTION/MEDIA/NEW JERSEY/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Being restored immediately. @Facebook stated that they made an ‘enforcement error’. Thank you!” [Editor’s Note: This tweet references Facebook’s decision to remove a N.J. Women For Trump page from their site, which Trump brought attention to on October 31, 2020.] ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, November 1, 2020 4:41 am […]
10/31/2020
2020 ELECTION/MEDIA/NEW JERSEY/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@Facebook Put them back NOW! RT @njdotcom N.J. Women For Trump Facebook group, with 29K members, removed from Facebook days before election http://nj-ne.ws/jvnxCVo“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 31, 2020 6:47 pm […]
10/14/2020
CORRUPTION/JOE BIDEN/MEDIA/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “So terrible that Facebook and Twitter took down the story of ‘Smoking Gun’ emails related to Sleepy Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in the @NYPost. It is only the beginning for them. There is nothing worse than a corrupt politician. REPEAL SECTION 230!!!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 14, 2020 […]
10/6/2020
CORONAVIRUS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Facebook on Tuesday removed a post from President Donald Trump that downplayed the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic, a day after he left a hospital while recovering from the virus. Twitter restricted a similar tweet from Trump, leaving it online but placing it behind a note saying the tweet violated the company’s rules […]
8/5/2020
CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. on Wednesday removed a video posted by President Trump in which he said children are ‘almost immune from this disease,’ a claim that the companies said ran afoul their rules against harmful misinformation about Covid-19… The action marked the first time that Facebook removed Mr. Trump’s posts for […]
8/5/2020
COVID-19/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook removed a video post from President Donald Trump’s personal page on Wednesday that included a segment from a Fox News interview in which the president said children are ‘almost immune’ to COVID-19. ‘This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our […]
7/28/2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TWITTER: “I happen to think, based on what I’ve read — I’ve read a lot about hydroxy [hydroxychloroquine]. I happen to think that it has an impact, especially at the early years. There were some very good tests at Ford, and the doctor from Yale came up with a very, very strong testament to it. […]
6/22/2020
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/JOE BIDEN/TWITTER/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Today, he [President Trump] has unfurled tweet after tweet pushing baseless conspiracy theories meant to discredit vote-by-mail. Our campaign has sent letters to Twitter and Facebook demanding that this disinformation, which seeks to undermine faith in our electoral process, gets taken down immediately.” -Joe Biden Campaign Manager Jen O’Malley Dillon […]
5/28/2020
EXECUTIVE ORDER/SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “A small handful of powerful social media monopolies controls a vast portion of all public and private communications in the United States… They’ve had unchecked power to censor, restrict, edit, shape, hide, alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens and large public audiences… The choices that Twitter makes […]
5/28/2020
OBAMA/QUOTE/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “.@Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is today criticizing Twitter. ‘We have a different policy than Twitter on this. I believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online.’ Did Twitter criticize Obama for his ‘you can keep your Dr.’?“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 2:48 pm […]
3/20/2019
TWITTER/SOCIAL MEDIA: “I think that Twitter is a way that I get out the word when we have a corrupt media. And it is corrupt and it’s fake. So Twitter is a way that I can get out the word. Because our media is so dishonest — a lot of it — the mainstream. A […]
3/19/2020
FACEBOOK/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “So something is happening with those groups of folks that are running Facebook and Google and Twitter. And I do think we have to get to the bottom of it. It’s very fair — it’s collusive, and it’s very, very fair to say that we have to do something about it. And if […]