How should Facebook and Twitter handle Trump after he leaves office?

A tweet by US president Donald Trump is seen being flagged as inciting violence by Twitter in this photo illustration on an Apple iPhone in Warsaw, Poland on May 29, 2020. Twitter on May 29 applied a fact-checking label to a vote-in-mail tweet by US President Donald Trump that the company considers misleading. Twitter has recently started labelling tweets with public notification and fact check labels. The labelling of Trump's tweet about the uproar following the death of George Floyd has seen the president signing an executive order targeting the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 which protects social media companies against lawsuits against them for user generated content. (Photo by Jaap Arriens / Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

In June of 2020, a Facebook account entitled “Will they suspend me” published a post that copied, word for word, Trump’s infamous “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” response to protests for racial justice. Within a week of publication, the post was flagged for violating Facebook’s community standards and the account barred from posting … Continue reading How should Facebook and Twitter handle Trump after he leaves office?