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and everyone knows that. especially the other side. but you have to go home now. we have to have peace. so go home, we love you, you re very special, you ve seen what happens. you see the way others are treated. that are so bad and so evil. i know how you feel. but go home, and go home in peace. that was donald trump s video response to january 6th, issues hours after the capitol had been stormed by a violent mob of insurrectionists. he is that moment once again repeat the very election lies that motivated the rioters to storm the capitol in the first place, and then told that violent mob that they were, quote, very special. that video, and another post denying the election where the straws that finally broke the camel s back over america s largest social media companies. for years, trump had been allowed to use websites like twitter and facebook to vilify immigrants and religious groups, to promote violence against media organizations and individual journalists, the ....
Twitter and facebook to vilify immigrants and religious groups, to promote violence against media organizations and individual journalists, the spread poisonous lies to tens of billions of his followers. all of that had real world consequences. a 2018 study from the university of warwick trump s anti islamic tweets may have been associated with an increase in anti-muslim hate crimes. a 2020 analysis from the brookings institution found that severe toxicity and online threats towards trump s targets increased in the immediate aftermath of his tweets. but on january six, as the country came closer than it ever has to a violent coup, those social media companies finally realized they could not keep giving trump a platform. so, twitter and facebook banned donald trump. that was a big deal. prior to this ban, trump had nearly 88 million followers on twitter and another 35 million on facebook. facebook, in particular, had been key to donald trump s success ever since his first ....