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Rick Hasen and Nate Persily on Replatforming Trump on Social Media

The Lawfare Podcast

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The Effectiveness of De-Platforming

Nate Silver: It's difficult maybe to disentangle removing Trump from Twitter versus removing him from the presidency. But it is remarkable, isn't it, that someone who really dominated social media for many years, then once the platforms kicked him out, was unable to access that audience and get, you know, amplify the message. And so I think that there's a lesson here, which is that as much as kind of information or communication has a hydraulic relationship to these platforms where it always finds a crack in the sidewalk like water,. The friction that you add by de-platforming is considerable," he says.

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