Donald Trump’s attacks on social media threaten the free speech rights of all Americans

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Abstract

Given that US president Donald Trump appears to use Twitter almost instinctively, his recent attacks on the platform may seem counterintuitive.

But his feud with Twitter is another example of the ways in which the president has routinely distorted the principles of the First Amendment in order to undermine the very freedoms he claims to be championing – as well as American democracy more broadly.
Original languageEnglish
Specialist publicationThe Conversation
Publication statusPublished - 29 May 2019

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