Throughout his presidency, even before undercutting the legitimacy of the election results or, before that, mail-in ballots, the president has used social media to amplify hateful rhetoric, glorify violence, and promote conspiracy theories.īecause he has opted to use his personal Twitter account, to tweet while president-another norm-defying move-the loss of the handle may not matter all that much to Trump.

By contrast, Twitter’s warning labels on election-related misinformation and falsehoods have been successful in reducing their spread, the company said in a blog post earlier this month, but the mounting public pressure for Twitter to ban Trump’s account has significantly intensified in the aftermath of the 2020 race. The warning labels Facebook has attached to Trump’s post-election misinformation are reportedly doing nothing to stop the spread of false content across the platform, a fact the company is apparently resigned to-even as those evidence-free allegations drive engagement. He has undermined the integrity of the electoral process with baseless claims of widespread voter fraud and false declarations of victory, part of his increasingly desperate effort to reverse his loss to Biden. Since Election Day, Trump has used social media to push nonstop falsehoods about the election. The handover, which apparently does not require any information sharing between the outgoing and incoming administrations, involves archiving all existing tweets on accounts related to the presidency, wiping clean those accounts, and transferring them to the incoming Biden team. “As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration,” a Twitter spokesperson said. Twitter will do the same for other accounts, such as and tied to the presidency, according to Politico. The social media giant is “actively preparing” to do its part in the transition of digital assets by transferring the handle to Biden on Inauguration Day, regardless of whether the president has conceded by then. Twitter is getting ready to formally recognize Joe Biden as the 46th president on January 20, even as President Donald Trump marches on with his failing, conspiracy-laden crusade to overturn the election results and as many Republicans still refuse to acknowledge them.

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