As legendary CNN anchor and correspondent Christiane Amanpour predicted in 2016, journalism faced an “existential crisis” during the Trump era. Caught off guard, the press seemed to take a few years to find a way to fact-check Trump’s comments in real time and cover his presidency without helping spread his lies. Meanwhile, in the final months and weeks of his administration, and particularly in the fallout from the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, social and mainstream media started to do what many had hoped for: deplatform the president. This included major networks cutting away from Trump’s press conferences and Twitter and Facebook kicking the president off of their sites, though whether Trump will be banned from Facebook permanently is under review by the company’s oversight board. These weren’t insignificant steps, but after more than four years and with just weeks left of Trump’s administration, some pundits proclaimed they were “too little, too late.”