Fox News contributor Lara Trump announced on Instagram today that she will interview her father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, for her show The Right View.
The Right View began as a Trump campaign product, but it has continued in recent weeks with videos that have been uploaded to Lara Trump’s Facebook page, YouTube, and a Rumble page with her name. (The Rumble videos are embedded on the show’s own website, where these social media accounts are linked from.)
Former President Trump is still suspended from Facebook after inciting the January 6 attack on the Capitol building, while the platform’s Oversight Board contemplates recommending letting him back on the platform.
A thorough Media Matters review of over 6,000 of Trump’s Facebook posts found that more than a quarter of them contained COVID-19 misinformation, election lies, or extreme rhetoric about his critics. Trump has continued spreading these lies in recent interviews.
Facebook’s refusal to draw clear lines in enforcing its own policies is at the core of this mess -- it’s no coincidence that Lara Trump broke the news on Facebook-owned Instagram.
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Donald Trump used Twitter as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the traditional media and speak directly to voters. Mr Trump was initially locked out of his Twitter account for 12 hours in January after he called the people who stormed the US Capitol "patriots". Hundreds of his supporters entered the complex as the US Congress attempted to certify Joe Biden's victory in last year's presidential election. Mr Trump was impeached by Congress for his actions but acquitted after most of the Republican party senators did not support a vote to convict.
Facebook, which also indefinitely suspended Mr Trump in January, has asked its independent oversight board to decide whether the ban should stand.
Twitter last week said it would seek public input on if, when and how it should ban world leaders with 'controversial views'. Twitter warned then it would ban Mr Trump "permanently" if he breached the platform's rules again. After being allowed back on Twitter, Mr Trump posted two tweets that the company cited as the final straws. The social media company said both of these tweets were "in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy".
In addition to Twitter and Facebook, Trump's accounts were also suspended on Facebook, popular gaming platform Twitch and the multimedia messaging app Snapchat.
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