Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his employees

Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo... by kec on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @12:23PM (#23405215)

The US president is the single most powerful person in the world. If he says "Hey $literally_any_media_outlet, I'd like to make a statement, want to swing by the rose garden in 20?" The media will fall over themselves to do so. I don't think you could come up with an example of someone who would be less harmed by being banned from social media than the potus.

Even if for some reason you don't buy that, social media could easily justify a ban by differentiating between his personal and official government accounts.

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Re:Things from leaked audio of Mark Zuckerberg and his emplo... by tarkin2 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @05:33PM (#23409069)

Both facebook and twitter give the president something more than traditional media: retweets, engagement, reaction, analysis etc.

The whole 'the only good democrat is a dead democrat' and glorifying violence would have been much harder to do with traditional potus press statements.

Twitter and Facebook allow him to use these new tools, despite his tendency to incite violence. They help to enable him. And it's their choice. And they thus make his words much more effective.

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