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Michelle Obama Calls on Twitter and Facebook to Permanently Ban Trump
- Post AuthorBy Henry Wolff
- Post DateFri Jan 08 2021
Former First Lady Michelle Obama urged social media companies on Thursday to permanently ban President Trump from using their platforms.
Why it matters: Her call comes after Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat took action against the president’s accounts after he repeated false claims of election fraud and defended his supporters who invaded the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
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- “Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior—and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection.”
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- Post TagsBarack Obama, Censorship, Donald Trump