Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has reinstated former President Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts following a two-year suspension for violating the platform’s rules. The company’s decision to withdraw the suspension, announced Wednesday, means the former president can now reach tens of millions of followers across the two services as he makes another presidential bid.... Read more
Former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are being reinstated, the social media giant Meta announced Wednesday — a little more than two years after he was suspended from the platforms over incendiary posts on the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Trump’s accounts will be reinstated “in the coming weeks” and come with... Read more
Meta said the suspensions of Donald Trump’s accounts would be lifted “in the coming weeks,” with measures in place to discourage repeat offenses. Twitter reinstated Mr. Trump last year. Just over two years after Donald J. Trump’s accounts were suspended from Facebook and Instagram, Meta, the owner of the platforms, said on Wednesday that it... Read more
Fox News contributor Joe Concha responds to Attorney General Merrick Garland’s claim that the DOJ is ‘neutral’ and ‘nonpartisan’ and weighs in on a Peter Strzok tweet claiming Trump should be prosecuted, but Biden should not. EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump defended former Vice President Pence after it was revealed that classified records were discovered in... Read more
Former President Barack Obama’s office declined to answer questions about whether it is searching for classified documents at his residences after documents have now been found in the homes and offices of President Biden, former President Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence. “We have nothing for you at this time,” Hannah Hankins, the communications... Read more
Former President Trump called former Vice President Mike Pence “an innocent man” on Tuesday following revelations that classified documents were found at Pence’s home in Indiana. Earlier on Tuesday, revelations emerged that classified documents had been found at Pence’s Indiana home. Pence attorney Greg Jacob told the National Archives earlier this month that “a small... Read more
Taibbi was addressing his remarks to “the corporate press” and lamenting that the country is so “paralyzed by distrust of media that it prevents real dialogue.” He wrote that the situation “can’t be resolved until the corporate press swallows its pride and admits the clock has finally run out on its seven years of loony... Read more
After almost seven years of accusations coming from the Democratic Party and the media that Russia helped former President Donald Trump get into the White House with online disinformation campaigns, a prominent MSNBC columnist is finally admitting there is a lack of evidence supporting such claims. One of MSNBC’s most widely read opinion columnists, Zeeshan... Read more
A new study conducted by New York University has concluded that Russian influence operations on Twitter played no measurable role in Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election. It’s a striking finding, and one that should prompt some reflection. Some Democrats grew obsessed with Russian meddling in American affairs during the Trump era, to the... Read more
That’s the implication from a new study in Nature Communications, written by a team of six academics who tried to assess whether the Russian government’s Twitter propaganda effort during the 2016 campaign actually changed users’ minds. “We find no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in... Read more
