Social media use by Donald Trump

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Donald Trump's use of social media attracted attention worldwide since he joined Twitter in May 2009. Over nearly twelve years, Trump tweeted around 57,000 times,^[1] including about 8,000 times during the 2016 election campaign and over 25,000 times during his presidency.^[2] The White House said the tweets should be considered official statements.^[3] When Twitter banned Trump from the platform in January 2021 during the final days of his term,^[4] his handle @realDonaldTrump had over 88.9 million followers.^[5] For most of Trump's first presidency, his account on Twitter, where he often posted controversial and false statements,^[6][7][8][9] remained unmoderated in the name of "public interest".^[10][11] Congress performed its own form of moderation,^[12] and in the face of this political censure, his tweets only accelerated.^[13]

During his 2020 reelection campaign, he falsely suggested that postal voting or electoral fraud may compromise the election,^[14][15] and after his election loss, Trump persistently undermined the election results,^[16][17] and his tweets played a role in inciting the attack of the US Capitol.^[18] Though the Senate eventually acquitted Trump during his second impeachment, social media companies swiftly banned him. Facebook and Instagram banned him for two years.^{[19][20][21][22]} During the first week in January 2021 that Trump was banned on several platforms, election-related misinformation declined 73 percent, according to research analytics firm Zignal Labs.^[23] In November 2022, Twitter's new owner, Elon Musk, reinstated his account, although Trump had stated he would not use it in favor of his own social media platform, Truth Social.^[24] In April 2023, at his arraignment hearing, Trump was warned by Acting New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan not to use social media to incite violence.^[25]