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Rick Hasen and Nate Persily on Replatforming Trump on Social Media

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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

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