to hear more of it.

I am both confused and worried by the possible return of Donald Trump to Facebook and Twitter.

It is confusing in that he has established his own social media platform, Truth Social, a rather ironically named enterprise given his refusal to accept that he had lost the 2020 election and the lies he told about stolen elections.

Surely, he would use only his site especially as there is an exclusivity clause with Truth Social that stops him from posting on other social media sites until June. I have my toys but I want to play with yours instead? The worrying part is that he will be spreading more of this ‘truths’ and at times incomprehensible messages. Maybe I need to have a strong cup of ‘Covfefe’ which I assume might actually be a combination of coffee and poor typing skills. Social media is a source of wisdom and support but at times it also contains the worst of vitriol and extremist thinking and adding his voice will not help swing the balance back to the side of rational discourse. Would it be better to leave him with only the option of using Truth Social both because it only has a low number of followers, Wikipedia tells me it has less than two million US users whereas Twitter has about 240 million worldwide and Facebook has almost 3 billion users around the world.

I have heard his message, ignored it and don’t want

[ Editor’s Note: As much as I’ve never hidden my disdain for Trump, it’s very clear that he has millions of supporters around the country, and if we’re really champions of free speech, that means it applies to everyone, including Trump. The thing, though, is just like “ free speech” still means you can’t run into a crowded movie theater and yell “ Fire!” you also can’t use your position of power to yell “ Stolen election!” and there not be consequences. The truth (not truth social) is that Twitter and Facebook are privately owned companies that can, at their discretion, allow or not allow whoever they want to have an voice on their platforms]