trump supporters on twitter twitter. arthel: thank you. eric.c: twitter and facebook's decisions, the new pressure on parlor, what you think? >> this looks like a classic case of political payback against the president who tried to crackdown on the social media giant. twitter is claiming the president was glorifying violence. maybe you could make the argument with the original 12 hour fan while the seat of the capital was taking place in terms of what president trump was tweeting but the president is saying for those who ask are not going to the inauguration january 20, that's been perceived by some people as reason to tweak threats about another assault on the capital. i don't see how you lay that . look at the contrary. the same thing today, thousands and thousands of tweets trending on twitter have the following words, hank mike pence. that is apparently okay. that's not glorification of violence, we are seeing highly selective enforcement here. eric: that's even a # right now on twitter. but what about those who say the president has brought

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the fact is, i'm going to continue to say things to my 290,000 twitter followers, and i know that twitternd the people that are monitoring it don't like what i have to say. and i know currently, they are more likely to shut me down or to sensor one of my tweets than they are a liberal or for that matter as you said earlier, iran, or some of the other evils around the world. jon: that's the double standard that many complain about. california congressman darrell issa, goods to have you on. thank you. >> thank you. jon: california governor facing growing recall effort as cases of coronavirus surge in the golden state. the details on that push, next. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ nicoreyou get advice like: smoking is hard. try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette keeping your oysters growing while keeping your business growing has you swamped. (♪ ) you need to hire i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a s

how is twitter not taking that down? inconsistent while banning the president's account. griff: that's a great point. the allegations, howie, that twitter is biased against conservatives. it's not a new debate. we talked about it. you and i on your show media buzz. when you drill down, is there any evidence that twitter is biased against conservatives? howie: there's a fair amount of anecdotal evidence where prominent conservatives have had their tweets, for example, minimized, or blocked, putting warning labels on them. during the election twitter repeatedly not just to president trump but trump campaign but didn't do it to joe biden and prominent democrats. that seems to people on the right to be one sided. i feel like this is sort of like, you know, donald trump is this great money-maker for twitter. this feels like kicking him on the way out the door when he's not quite a viable as franchisor won't be as a president and celebratory mood on many journalists online and elsewhere. this is great. not even pausing to cons

his twitter audience was something like 88 million. it's an incredibly intense following, people who are add addicted to his twitter feed. he will see this as a huge blow to him. i spoke to two people who have talked to the president the last 24 hours. they told me he wasn't yelling or raging. he's obviously very angry about it. i know inside the white house right now they're trying to turn their attention for the next few days on how they can fight back against these social media companies. so i wouldn't be surprised -- i know that one person said to me everything is on the table. i don't know what that means policy wise. i said are who we talking execue orders. they said everything. i don't know what they can do in terms of executive action. but i can tell you they're looking very, very hard at that and the president's social media guy is heavily involved in that. chris: josh, twitter is not a public utility. it's a private company. if it says, as it does, that there is continuing talk about insurrection on its platform,

twitter suspends accounts that violate the twitter rules.s always boasting how many millions of people get his information on social media. facebook suspected him, instagram suspended him. now twitter has suspended him. this is going to cause him deep, deep not only frustration but anger. and i assume he's going to try to retaliate. >> reporter: i assume he'll try to retaliate. we are expecting this evening some kind of video message from the president. now, we also have to wonder whether that video message is something that twitter did not want to put up on the platform. perhaps that's not the case. we'll have to wait and see what that video message is. these recent video messages that the president has put out there, after january 6, he's tweeted them out. he can't do that this evening. and so presumably if the white house wants to get that video message out to the american people this evening, one that we're expecting this evening, they're going to have to do it the old fashioned way, they'll have to email it to the white house press, the

but he can't because what he does with twitter and what he did with twitter was send a mob to go seemingly get his vice president and all of the members of congress counting votes. while it was going on, he also used it to call them patriots and tell them that he loved them, but please go home, you're very special. so twitter locked him out of his account, said that was enough, and they, again, several hours later, a day later they locked him out completely because he kept using his account to claim the election was fraudulent somehow -- it wasn't -- and twitter said this is going to incite another incident. we know that people are still organizing for future events right now. people on qanon right now, qanon believers are now using par ler and other channels to communicate their next sort of plan, which is, they say, organizing for the inauguration. >> sabrina, parler, a far-right alternative for twitter has been kicked off google play for failing to moderate extreme speech among its users. apple also ordered them to start policing harmful content or face removal from the app store. how w

he loved twitter. it is not like his list of social media it was twitter and other things. twitter, big gap and couple of others. to lose his first love when it social media has got to be grading. he is not muzzled. there is a press corps sitting at the white house right now. he could go up to the podium at any moment and say what he wants. questions shouted at him as he walks away and that seems to be dissuading him from doing it. twitter but with the ability to make news the traditional way presidents have doe news for centuries, what you expect the next nine days to look like? ident actually do as he loses his cabinet and his top advisers? whatjosh: i think he will certay world out final executive orders possibly around immigration for instance. i think he has certainly prepared at least some pardons. we do not know how many he is going to do. the big question is will he try to pardon himself? there is a whole mix of views on whether he can or should do that. like we say, he is going to the border. he is going to talk about the border wall. we do not know whether he will

twitter facebook the enormous power of social media has never been so clear since the rioters stormed the u.s. capitol in washington the platforms out of control and what role has opened up for new players like mv today on the. u.s. president trump pretty much government. he used twitter to speak directly to his almost 90000000 followers among them were fans and foes people in politics in business and. from the press win win situation for trump on twitter for a long time but now social media has suddenly put the brakes on by blocking its accounts private companies are banning the world's most powerful men from speaking out what does it mean when digital corporations have this much influence in the twitter account at real donald trump pad 89000000 followers now all that's left of his beloved megaphone and weapon of choice is his twitter handle. trump fired up 12200 tweets in 2020 alone often with alarming content. so. i want him with just a few words on twitter trump was able to mobilize his supporters who recently even stormed the capitol in washington d.c. trump raised them on the po

and correct me if i'm wrong, the twitter -- twitter immediately took -- took it down.is ban is if trump tries to go on anybody else's account and post, this ban applies to any of those accounts. now, these are the potus account, the white house account. these are u.s. government accounts. twitter does not want to suspend these accounts because, in about, what, 10, 11, 12 days, they are going to be transferred to joe biden. these accounts are going to be transferred to biden. so, twitter is being very careful now watching to see if trump tries to post something else. and, anderson -- >> this is nice. like, the president of the united states is now trying to trick twitter and posting -- as if it's so important that he use twitter, somehow, as opposed to just making a statement. i mean, i guess, then he would have to be open to, you know, being confronted and talked to by reporters. and we lost brian. chief ramsey, as you heard earlier, the d.c. chief of police said that there was no intelligence. that there be a breach in the capitol. what can -- what should be done diff

megaphone and weapon of choice is his twitter handle. trump fired up 12200 tweets in 2029 often with alarming content. with just a few words on twitter trump was able to mobilize his supporters who recently even stormed the capitol in washington d.c. trump raised them on the popular social media site. donald trump facebook and twitter how to accomplish what police and politicians basically failed to do prevent a further escalation in violence social media the president but this raises new questions should social media posts people if so which posts and who gets to decide meanwhile trump tweeted from other accounts rallying support and planning further action. twitter tweets and stated that any other account will be subject to suspension with many other platforms within his reach it will be hard to make his voice heard. his own platform well that's one way to stop people from silencing him many right wing conservatives had already jumped ship from twitter and facebook anyway because of blocking and the left and headed for alternative plat

twitter has permanently banned donald trump. the messaging app parler has gone offline after amazon, google, and apple withdrew support. and shopify has removed all stores affiliated with trump. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman. momentum is building to remove president trump from office following the violent attempted coup last wednesday that saw an angry mob of trump-backed insurrectionists storm the capitol, resulting in five deaths. house democrats are introducing a resolution formally calling on vice president mike pence to invoke the 25th amendment. house speaker nancy pelosi says if pence does not move to do so, the house will proceed with impeachment for the second time in trump's single term. pence has reportedly not ruled out using the 25th amendment. california congressmember ted lieu said an article of impeachment with at least 210 co-sponsors in the house will be introduced today. the draft resolution cites "incitement of insurrection."

his twitter account a steady drumbeat of lies that he, and not joe biden, won the presidency. >> twitterthe rage, the suspicion, the righteousness, and the lie that donald trump won the election. it was absolutely crucial he kept encouraging them. his followers, especially the most extremes ones of his followers, followe every tweet like it was scripture. >> by continuing to retweet the lies, by continuing to tell people the election was stolen, what he is doing is making sure that even though he won't be in the white house, that many of his supporters will not support or view president biden as a legitimate president. >> reporter: for months, twitter flagged some of the president's tweets as misleading. after the cap to titol riots, c risk of further violence, they banned him for life. >> when donald trump was banned for twitter, the word everyone tweeted to me was "gutted." it ripped his heart out. he wanted to see how many people were retweeting, liking, commenting. that's what he loved. even if it was somebody attacking him for the tweet, he didn't care, he liked to churn up the cont

removed from twitter. it is not talked about enough but in addition to accountability for what the president has done, there is a lot of thoughts being put into how is there any way to remove him from the oval office. that is man who incited a situation where the presidential line of succession, the vice president and the speaker of the house, were at risk. there appears to have been a break in the military chain of command with respect of deployment to the national guards. the issue don't get more serious than that. there is a lot of thought not exactly about accountability, that's a whole other conversation that we'll extend for a year. to answer your question when i heard that the president's twitter account had been revoked, well, that's good. that's one mean of not inciting violence but as your guests were pointing out on the show, how is he psychologically going to react to that. again, i am focused on the fact that this is a man still in charge of american's nuclear forces and still the most powerfu

twitter has permanently banned u.s. president personal account citing the risk of further incitement of violence it made the move after trump supporters stormed the capitol on wednesday twitter said trump's recent tweets calling his supporters patriots amounted to glorification of violence in response traffic used twitter of trying to silence him the company's decision comes amid concern about the president's supporters making plans for armed protests before the inauguration of president elect joe biden. well to talk about the implications of trump being cut off from his favorite social media megaphone i'm joined in the studio now by peter hart a doll from our us elections team hello to you peter king so just how much of a blow is it really for trump to be now permanently banned from twitter is this a problem i think it's a it's a big blow i mean president is increasingly find himself isolated after wednesday's bands and this certainly adds to that it comes after facebook org thursday also announced that it was. tempora

it's a big deal. >> well, twitter is his life line. twitter is his best friend. twitter seems to be where he spends an awful lot of his time when he is not watching television. it's going to be very difficult for him to figure out what to do without it. of course, they can always use until january 20th the white house account if the president has something urgent he wants to say. or retweet. but that is the official white house account. so twitter understood exactly what it was doing when they took away this toy from the president of the united states but, clearly, they felt that there is something very onerous going on here. and you can see this in what they tweeted. let me, in their blog, they made it very clear. let me read this to you. plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off twitter including a proposed secondary attack on the u.s. capitol and state capitol buildings on january 17, 2021. we at cnn of course are going to be looking into this. but they clearly believe that the president's tweets continue to talk to people who

james, did twitter make the right call? james: i think they made the right call in the sense that they are a private sense. they can make the decisions. i'm not one of these people that thinks stakeholders, so-called who don't run the company ought to tell them how to run it. once again, we are seeing an agenda at work here to silence certain voices and i know that that's a voice a lot of people would like to silence right now but -- but the -- the issue with twitter and whether they are seeking to embrace to now democratic senator, this is how they feel, what you see is a glaring double standard. they've allowed spokesman for horrible regimes around the world to use the platform. you can go on there any day of the week and see highly objectionable material that perhaps for political reasons they don't take down. i think it's a problem in terms of if they want to say they are an open forum allowing the world to communicate. article article and i get your point about some some of the otr heinous stuff that's posted on twitte

trump was a great for twitter when twitter was dying and he is the president of the united states.id it dawn on anybody and now that he's not going to be the president of the united states they don't want him tripping and undermining the new administration now that it's gone? maybe that's the reason. but i've had friends that can't offer less than he did so i don't understand the powers of social media. >> martha: the bottom line is that this is the format for speech in a big way. and you can't shut it down, regardless of whether or not you don't like the message. gentlemen, thank you. charlie and dave, good to see you tonight. more of "the story" after this period of musica.musical♪ horrible. a young thing like me? actually anyone 50 or over is at increased risk for shingles. the pain, the burning! my husband had to do everything for weeks. and the thing is, there's nothing you can do about it! well, shingles can be prevented. shingles can be whaaat? prevented. you can get vaccinated. frank! they have shingles vaccines! whaaat? that's what i said. we're taking you to the doctor. n

then viral on twitter with the capital storm. and extreme conspiracy videos as widely available on you tube moderating content is a tricky business and not exactly a success story yet. market themselves as mediators of news and an alternative to the big players. where users have freedom and the uses take this one step further as this post shows. but if you're thinking that only trigger happy right wing extremist proud these alternative platforms then think again the main investor in the network which was founded in 2018 is rebecca the most a family trumps biggest supporters many opinion leaders and republican politicians now have pollack counts a liberal groups on the ill turn it of web as well tim berners lee is on me weezer advisory board the man who is generally credited with inventing the world wide web and a long time can pay not for internet. the call for freedom of speech is of course not just the right wing phenomenon. one conspiracy theory making the rounds is that microsoft founder bill gates unleashed the corona virus

also this hour twitter permanently bans donald trump i feel seeing him of inciting violence and also some are moved by facebook raising questions over free speech. what they're doing is they're going out in expressing all the message that it's ok to go ahead and certain sort of speech if you do not agree with the problem is that trying to address the speech will not give them too much on the capital. r t here is for roger stone a former adviser to donald trump and one of the president's closest allies he thinks the crackdown by social media giants is pushing the u.s. into dangerous territory. for the 1st time in the history of our country we have the censorship of all mass communication. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teached you in moscow thanks for joining us this hour and we start with some breaking news air traffic controllers in indonesia have lost contact with a passenger jet which took off from jakarta heading for the island of borneo there were several dozen people on board and we can now cross to our teams from on quest for more on this what's

it's not just twitter.ake a look at the social media platforms right now that have kicked off the presidents of the united states, facebook,ing twitter, google, spotify, snapchat, instagram, shop phi, for whatever that is worth. reddit, twitch. youtube, tiktok and pinterest. i'm sure the president was busy i too think the most important point easy to say today someone who agree disagrees with me shut out of the conversation. that's not true. what is coming is, it's coming for you. it's coming for anyone that does not 100 percent toe the acceptable line, jedediah. jedediah: yeah, i think it's deeply concerns because of the way that policy, particularly at twitter, not just at twitter, particularly at twitter has been applied and people are saying if this is your policy as articulated it's not being applied across the board. there are people still allowed to tweet. we are going to go through a lot of that list coming up and more. you know, i think that -- i saw this coming when it came to the president when h

ed: twitter is down 1.2% on friday session.t has posted a weekly decline. -- we had several lawmakers in the u.s. basically say, why companiessocial media not act sooner in a way that could have perhaps present -- prevented the scenes that we saw in the u.s. capitol. you also saw mexican -- mexico's president calling was a bad omen. to ctually likened it [indiscernible] the market weighs outlook at happen as a biden presidency enters the white house. emily: it will certainly be an eventful two weeks between now and january 20. thank you so much for those updates. facebook, twitter, google are facing mounting pressure from groupsts the public and as more content is being posted, such as with president trump after a mob of pro-trump protesters, rioters, stormed the u.s. capitol. regained access, facebook has disbanded -- has suspended his access. employeermer twitter is who we have with us next. he has warned that politicians could misuse the five corporate i want to get your reaction to this story from the washington story -- th

twitter down by 2.4%. 6th straight day of declines. it is the worst streak for chewed -- for twitter in two years. the change now is that wall street and analysts are looking more closely at what twitter's decision to remove president trump from the platform means for its overall business. one analysts suggesting that it could result in a decrease of 6 million to 9 million monthly u.s. users. it affects that business from that decision. but snap rising for a fourth straight session. it seems immune from some of the pressures other social media stocks have been under. one reason is a lot of focus and optimism around advertising. the president speaking today, no direct rebuke of social media companies. but the president saying that free speech is under assault. emily: right, and of course, republican lawmakers, some of them, have said they will focus on banning section 230 for good. ed ludlow, thank you so much for that update. as ed mentioned, president trump saying he is at zero risk of being removed from office after encouraging suppo

the twitter statement goes on. review of recent tweets from the donald trump account in the context around them, we are permanently suspending the account due to the risk of further incitement. now, of course, they have flagged, as it were, numerous tweets in recent months from donald trump, basically questioning the veracity of the claims that have been made in those tweets. well, now, clearly in the fading days of the term presidency and the events, of course, on wednesday on capitol hill, the folks at twitter have decided enough is enough. they are closing down that vital mouthpiece for the president of the united states. and if you think, absolutely vital, 88.7 million followers that donald trump had on that account. this, of course, follows the recent suspension oi’ or the locking of his account for 12 hours. he's not had much luck with twitter at moment recently. no, he isn't, indeed. and it was very much, as i mentioned just now, his preferred platform, his preferred platform, his preferred means of communic

late friday, twitter banned the president's account permanently, a twitter spokesperson says his tweets incited violence. i'm told vice president pence will attend joe biden's inauguration on january 20th. president trump said he will not, making him the first president to skip an inauguration since 1869. chris. chris: david spunt reporting from the white house. david, thank you. and joining us now, mick mulvaney, president trump's former chief of staff who resigned this week as the administration's special envoy to northern ireland. mick, after all of the controversial things that donald trump did over the last four years, why was this week the final straw? why now, say that you could no longer be part of this administration? >> chris, good morning, thanks for having me. i think everybody recognizes that what happened on wednesday is different. you could go down the long litany of things that people complained about with donald trump, and i could probably defend many of them, many were styleistic differences. wednesday was different. it struck to the heart of what it means to be an ame

now, it is not just twitter. other popular social media have taking action toes cut him off as brian stelter explains but brian explains why using twitter is an especially hard blow to this president. >> yes, it is hard to image president trump without a twitter account. those two words, trump and twitter, have been linked together for the past four years. he has relied on his twitter account to mobilize his followers, to demean the american news media. all of that has been taken away from the outgoing president. twitter has banned him. they call it a permanent suspension. it is a ban. this is the first time any world leader is known to have been banned from twitter. it is a moment in silicone valley history and a moment in political history and one has to wonder how trump is reacting, how he is feeling about this decision. the white house did release a statement from trump. he railed against twitter's decision. he tried to get his followers to follow him to other platforms. he said he will come up with other way

twitter has banned donald trump's personal account for good.an a day after allowing him back onto the platform — following an earlier ban — twitter said that two of mr trump's tweets were highly likely to encourage more violence. here's our north america correspondent, david willis. he has been permanently banned from his preferred platform of communication. mr trump has, of course, long said he mistrusts the mainstream or, as he calls it, ‘lamestream' media, preferring instead to talk over its head directly to his supporters. and as you say, there are 88 million people who follow him on that platform, twitter. well, a short while ago, the authorities at twitter said that he was being permanent band after close review of recent tweets from his account in the context surrounding them. they go on to say: now, of course, there was a 12—hour block placed on mrtrump‘s account earlier in the week following that mass rally and the violence on the capitol, around the capitol, and now it seems that the preferred platform for mr trump is permanently clos

and then, they kick him off twitter. he sneaks into another account and he puts out some of the worst stuff he's put out. you know, basically saying, they're coming after me, they're coming after me. he is inciting, again, this guy. >> yeah. as you were saying to me, we were talking for just a second. he is capable of doing something worse, than -- than before. and that's the problem. they are not only concerned about what he has done, right? what he cdid this week inciting violence. >> he could try to declare martial law and he doesn't really know what that means or how it would work but he could say it. and, look. if he keeps telling these people -- listen. if you have people deranged enough, passionate enough, confused enough, okay, to do what they did to the u.s. capitol. >> that's a problem. >> one, you're not getting a second, free pass. they do that again on the 17th or the 20th, the same members of law enforcement they celebrate, and they should, they are going to see the other side of that situation. and you wil

which one makes you have more twitter followers than the president. >>but he was just suspended from twitter today permanently his whole account has now been white if you go to the real donald page there's nothing on it it's totally blank and basically i got a chance now since the breaking news happened to read a little bit more into what twitter is explaining as to why they're doing it they're saying that. his tweets including the last 2 even saying that he's not going to be intending the inauguration are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on january 6 and there are multiple indicators that they're being received and understood as encouragement to do so. >>yeah, i mean if you think about what's going to happen over the next 12 days you think about as events that led up to the inauguration of joe biden is the 46th president of the united states. you have martin luther king day on the 20th or as just a few days before if you will in the 18th you have the weekend prior to the inauguration is a period where right-wing

well president trump has had a tumultuous relationship with twitter for many months on may 26th twitter fact checked trump for the 1st time highlighting his tweets as potentially misleading that california was using 1000000 ballots to rig the election twitter said that it wouldn't delete messages but it would add labels to give them context well i'm a $29.00 twitter i added a label to trump's tweet that it glorifies violence after he threatened that looters will be shot during protest of the death of george floyd they're not generally 7 after trump supporters stormed capitol hill it locked his account for 12 hours and force the removal of 3 of its tweets saying it was due to a risk of violence well jim anderson is c.e.o. of social flow he says the liability of tech firms for what users post on social media is going to be a major issue going forward. under the u.s. law the tech platforms like twitter have effectively a safe harbor against whatever contents putting out a being put out on their platform as long as they adhere to a certain minimum set of rules they are not legally responsib

lovedt twitter. -- he twitter. it is not like his list of social media is twitter and other things. his first love when it comes to social media, has to be grating on him. i would add, he is not muzzled. he is still the president of the united states. there's a press corps sitting at the white house right now. he could go right up to the podium at any moment, and say what he wants to say. that would be questions potentially, for doing that, or having them shouting at him as he walks away, and that seems to be dissuading him. emily: without twitter, but with the ability to make news the term national -- traditional way that presidents have made news for centuries, what do you expect the next nine days to look like? what will the president actually do as he moves into his cabinet and top advisors, what moves will he make? >> i think he will certainly roll out final executive orders, possibly around immigration, for instance. i think he has prepared at least some pardons, we do not know how many he will do. the big question is, will he try to parted himself? there's a whole mix of view

lot of us through twitter my it's news but it's really not news. last on twitter on the long just like we do on facebook at any of these companies so why add person we would like to know what he's thinking in because he's like an emotional twitter and he is running this country so i want to know but at the same time it's not up to any company to play if you don't want to i think that's an interesting take too because i mean when i look at this right now going beyond trump there was this huge you know battle as it's kind of a me she even mention with the a.c.l.u. weighing in 2 of like you know what do we do moving forward do we allow this kind of speech moving forward from other groups or entities on twitter does the government need to get involved and regulate twitter not that there's an argument to be made that there are definitely monopolies and they definitely need to be taken out and i think there's an argument to be made that they're very selective and even hypocritical in what they decide to censor and what they don't but do you believe in ta

twitter. this is not a long-term short. you could actually, i'm wondering, could somebody, probably somebody right wing media orientsed investors decide to try to buy twitter? that's possible. it's $34 billion plus whatever premium. i don't see a blocking shareholder, i don't think if i'm wrong, tweet me tell me that jack could block a deal, but i don't know it's such a crazy time could that happen? theoretically. >> and suffer a fate like parler the interesting company here for me is amazon and amazon web services, guy, because amazon web services as a cloud service, a hosting service, has decided that this site violates its terms of use and so it has basically cut this site off, parler, at the root and the immense power that aws has displayed almost begs for regulation it seems. >> right yeah no question about it i mean, a lot of people calling for it clearly you go back over the last six months, it's extraordinary how volatile amazon has been it's giving you opportunities on both sides of t

has done here. >> chris: some of the blowback to the twitter ban is based on how twitter explained,ting off the president. i want to put up a couple of explanations. twitter said the president talking about american patriots is being interpreted on twitter as support for the mob that attacked the capital. twitter says the president announcing he won't attend the inauguration may encourage people to attack on january 20th because he won't be there. marie, is there some tortured reasoning there to ban president trump from twitter and what about the decision of amazon and other big tech companies now to basically shut down parler, a social media platform that conservatives have chosen instead of twitter and facebook? >> well, chris, donald trump has arguably violated twitter's rules that they have for their platform for years now. so while this last week's that he posted may not have been his worst, certainly he has done worse things on twitter, they where i think probably the last straw in the most interesting part of twitter's statement i think was the last statement, how they have i

twitter for what they've done and saying that twitter's a terrible company that is doing this in cahoots with the radical left democrats. he tweeted that from the official presidential twitter account, @potus. twitter pretty immediately took that statement down. so who knows what will happen? the president making noises tonight that he's going to form his own platform, and maybe he will. maybe in the interim, he'll go to one of the places where, like, the neo-nazi have to go now, these online forums where the neo-nazis have found safe haven and where his supporters ahead of this week's riot posted pictures of themselves with guns and ammunition in their cars heading to washington, d.c. the online forums where the neo-nazis are welcome and where the president's supporters plotted openly this week, how they intended to kill cops and maybe legislators and how they intended to take over and, in their words, occupy the capitol building while they were there this week. maybe the president will hop over into that little line of sewage where he can be among friends online. and once he's in those

twitter released the statement.ter close review after context around them after being received and interpreted on and off twitter, we permanently ususpe d suspended the account. risk of further iincitement of . he tried to get around that by the@potus account. those tweets were taken down by twitter. when identical tweets popped up on the campaign account, twitter suspended that account. joining me to break the story is ben collins who covers all things internet and disinformation. ben, let's start with something twitter said about the fact there is more activity that they have seen about yet another rally or protest on the 17th of january and then something else on the 19th. then talk about disrupting the inauguration on the 20th. what do we know? >> trump supporters who were at that siege of the capitol, far-right extremist like the donald and twitter said that was the beginning. we are going to -- basically we did not go far enough. we will increase the bloodshed at the future event. the planning is not as specif

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