Wednesday’s violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by a Trump-incited mob.While initially arguing their need to be neutral on speech, Twitter and Facebook gradually yielded to public pressure drawing the line especially when the so-called Plandemic video emerged early in the coronavirus pandemic urging people not to wear masks, noted civic media professor Ethan Zuckerman of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Zuckerman expects the Trump de-platforming may spur important online shifts.
First, there may be an accelerated splintering of the social media world along ideological lines."Trump will pull a lot of audience wherever he goes,” he said.