The Trump administration is about to face “Big Tech” in its final days in power, according to a “White House adviser” who spoke to the media on Sunday on CNN.
The president wants to use “his permanent suspension from Twitter as an opportunity to change the Capitol insurrection narrative earlier in the week” and refocus attention on censoring conservative ideas and conservative commentators on major social media platforms.
President Donald Trump’s Twitter and Facebook accounts were suspended at the end of last week, and over the weekend, other social media platforms like Pinterest and Shopify promised to clean up the president’s accounts from their platforms as well. On Saturday, Amazon announced that it would remove Twitter’s alternative network, Parler, from its web services due to concerns that the platform was being used to plan new attacks on government buildings in Washington, DC
In each case, the platforms used “incitement” as an excuse, removing reports about concerns that could be used to garner support or to organize attacks similar to what happened at the United States Capitol last week. As The Daily Wire reported on Sunday, however, in some cases, the purge has inspired leftist commentators to seek the removal of conservative reporters, many of whom are distant from Wednesday’s events.
The White House adviser who spoke to CNN said that advisers are telling the president to use his Twitter ban as “an opportunity to rekindle anti-conservative bias arguments on social media” and to reframe the incident as an attack on his supporters.
“This is not just President Trump, but literally the 75 million Americans” who voted for the president, said the adviser to the network.
If Trump focuses on social media platforms again, he will have an interesting company. ACLU raised concerns about the “unverified power” of social media on Friday, according to Newsweek, shortly after Twitter permanently suspended the president’s account.
“For months, President Trump has been using social media platforms to sow doubts about the election results and to undermine voters’ will,” said ACLU senior legislative adviser Kate Ruane in a statement. “We understand the desire to suspend it permanently now, but it should concern everyone when companies like Facebook and Twitter exercise the unrestricted power to remove people from platforms that have become indispensable to the speech of billions – especially when the political reality makes these easier decisions. “
For President Trump, however, a change in government focus is unlikely to distract attention from its problems. Democrats are due to present new impeachment articles on Monday – several individual Democrats, it seems, are competing to be the first to offer their own articles – and a “close source” of Vice President Mike Pence told the media on Saturday that Pence has “not ruled out”, triggering the 25th Amendment, although it remains “highly unlikely” that Pence will make the change, as it may take up to two weeks to complete the process and Trump will be out of office on January 20.
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