The former acting director of national intelligence said Trump’s social media ban was more of an attack on democracy than the attempt to overturn an election.
The conspiracy theories and election fraud claims that stoked anger before the Jan. 6 assault are still readily available online, even after Facebook, Google and Twitter removed hundreds of thousands of accounts, pages and channels that spread misinformation.
Arguably, on January 6, 2021, Trump’s fanatical allies helped finish the job begun by a band of fanatics on 9/11.
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