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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's Time to Stop Platforming the "Big Lie" Playbook
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Citizens for Ethics
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Before, during, and after the Jan. 6 attacks, Donald Trump turned to social media to energize supporters with the Big Lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election. Today, he's using his own app to inspire political violence and civil unrest.
techpolicy.press
Its Time to Stop Platforming the Big Lie Playbook
The longer Truth Social remains available for download, the longer it serves as a threat to our democracy, says CREW's Noah Bookbinder.
1:00 PM · Sep 25, 2022
Citizens for Ethics
@CREWcrew
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Before, during, and after the Jan. 6 attacks, Donald Trump turned to social media to energize supporters with the Big Lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election. Today, he's using his own app to inspire political violence and civil unrest.
techpolicy.press
Its Time to Stop Platforming the Big Lie Playbook
The longer Truth Social remains available for download, the longer it serves as a threat to our democracy, says CREW's Noah Bookbinder.
1:00 PM · Sep 25, 2022
https://techpolicy.press/its-time-to-stop-platforming-the-big-lie-playbook/
Before, during, and after the January 6 attacks, Donald Trump turned to social media to energize supporters with the Big Lie that he had won the 2020 presidential election. Nearly two years later, Trump has a new platform to enact the same old playbook. With Truth Social emerging as a megaphone for misinformation and extremism, tech companies that are serious about upholding their publicly professed commitments to prevent the promotion of violent content must ban Truth Social from their online stores.
Back in April, and again in August of this year, my organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), called on major tech companies, like Apple and Google, to ban Truth Social from their online stores, pointing to its risk to democracy and insufficient content moderation policies. Its a step in the right direction that Google has not approved Truth Social for its online Google Play store, citing concerns over its insufficient content moderation policies. But the app still remains available for download on Apples App Store. Between February and August of this year, the app has been downloaded approximately 3 million times, with a major uptick in downloads following the FBI search of Trumps Mar-a-Lago resort.
Donald Trump launched Truth Social, a Trump Media & Technology Group product, earlier this year after he was permanently suspended from Twitter due to the risk of further incitement of violence after the January 6 insurrection. No longer able to reach his 88.7 million Twitter followers and spread election falsehoods, Trumps Truth Social platform is providing a new venue to spread misinformation-stoked militancy.
Since the federal government retrieved highly classified documents from Donald Trumps Mar-a-Lago residence this past August, Trump has repeatedly vilified the government agencies involved and has deftly used Truth Social to ensure that his anti-democratic messages are disseminated widely. Since then, researchers have tracked an escalation of violent rhetoric from the far right, mirroring the increased chatter we saw on online forums just before the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Truth Social app has seen a spike in downloads, as Trumps supporters flocked to the platform. These individuals didnt join the platform in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search simply to show solidarity. Instead, they came to Truth Social to intimidate and mobilize.
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