What Was Donald Trump’s Twitter?
“I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all,” Donald Trump told us in 2016. Something else happened.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, at a hearing on Capitol Hill in October.Credit.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 2021
Each of the big social platforms handled the challenges of the Trump presidency in its own unique way, scrambling to address or neutralize various urgent and contradictory concerns from users, advertisers, lawmakers and occasionally the president himself.
But there was one idea that none of them could resist trying, no matter how little it had done for the last platform to use it: the informational label.