
Rick Hasen and Nate Persily on Replatforming Trump on Social Media
The Lawfare Podcast
Introduction
Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, announced that he would be reinstating former President Donald Trump's account on the platform. Meanwhile, Meta's oversight board has set a January 2023 deadline for the platform to decide whether or not to return Trump to Facebook following his suspension after the January 6 insurrection. How should we think through the difficult question of how social media platforms should handle the presence of a political leader who delights in spreading falsehoods and jing up violence? Stanford and UCLA recently held a conference on just that. Ellen Rosenstein and I sat down with the conference's organizers, election law experts Rick Hasen and Nate Persily, to talk about whether Trump should be returned to social