Jan. 6 hearing shows that, in spite of bans, pro-Trump social media survives
to rally his supporters to overturn what he falsely labeled a fraudulent election, tweeting in December 2020, “WE HAVE JUST BEGUN TO FIGHT!!!” and “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”by his fans, and congressional investigators on Thursday shared video testimony from rioters who said they saw them as calls to action. On Dec.
Before the hearing, Trump wrote — or, in Truth Social lingo, “truthed” — that Jan. 6 “was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country.” The morning after, heBut Trump could only shout to a diminished crowd: His Truth Social account has about 3 million followers, or less than 4 percent of the 88 million Twitter followers he had before his ban.
Whether the major social networks allow Trump to return could have a profound effect on his ability to reorganize for a 2024 run, Donovan added.While Facebook and YouTube suspended him indefinitely, leaving open the possibility that he could be back, Twitter issued a permanent ban, and Twitter spokesperson Trenton Kennedy said Friday that the company stands by that.
Allen, who said he is not a Trump fan, said that he couldn’t remember specifically what he wrote but that he didn’t think it violated the site’s rules.I didn’t “think the post was even notable,” he told The Washington Post on Friday. “It is the height of hypocrisy for Truth Social to claim to support ‘free speech’ and then ban users for talking about” the hearings.
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