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.
The Problem With Vaccine Websites
If you’re struggling to register for a vaccine, don’t (only) blame bad tech and local officials.
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If you’re having problems registering for a coronavirus vaccine appointment, you are not alone.
There have been horror stories in places including Florida, Texas and New York of overwhelmed government hotlines or bungled online scheduling systems for vaccinations. Some health officials resorted to Eventbrite, a website typically used for organizing low-stakes events like bar crawls, to schedule residents’ shots.
It’s enraging that after the scientific marvel of inventing Covid-19 vaccines, now there are bureaucratic and technical bottlenecks that have slowed the vaccine rollout. (Feel free to scream out loud with me.) But don’t be angry about botched government technology or direct your fury only at your local officials. Be mad about the broad systemic failure.
From tariffs and trade to the status of Uber drivers, regulators are trying to install new rules or reduce regulations before President-elect Joe Biden takes over.
The app has renewed a debate about who holds power over online speech after the tech giants yanked their support for it and left it fighting for survival. Parler went dark early on Monday.
The social network, which had fast been gaining right-wing users, said that Amazon had conspired with Twitter, but did not provide any direct evidence.