Trump's Twitter ban highlights need to democratise social media
Nobody was shedding tears about Trump’s removal from Twitter given how he used it to wage his unrelenting campaigns against women, Muslims, immigrants and the Black Lives Matter movement. Trump used his Twitter account to build his base; he emboldened the far right and incite the attempted coup on January 6. Trump used Twitter to spew hate and incited violence; it served as a powerful tool to advance his right-wing populist agenda. Seen this way, a Voltaire-esque defence of, or idealisation of, free speech ignores the material harm that Trump’s use of social media caused. The Twitter ban ...