{"id":10234,"date":"2021-01-18T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=10234"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:44:33","slug":"can-twitter-ban-trump","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/can-twitter-ban-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Twitter ban Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"description\">In their contribution to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juwiss.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JuWiss<\/a>, media lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/staff\/martin-fertmann\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Fertmann<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/staff\/keno-christoffer-potthast\">Keno Potthast<\/a> discuss whether Donald Trump&#8217;s Twitter ban heralds a change in the previously privileged treatment of public officials on digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juwiss.de\/05-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the article here (in German)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>After soon-to-be former US President Trump incited supporters to storm the US Capitol on 6 January, also via social media, and then relativised it, numerous platforms have taken action against Trump. Facebook Inc. suspended Trump from its Facebook and Instagram accounts &#8220;indefinitely, but at least until the end of his presidency&#8221;, as did Snapchat and the streaming platform Twitch, TikTok removed videos of the president&#8217;s speeches (the president does not have an account there for well-known reasons), and his favourite platform Twitter initially suspended his account @realDonaldTrump temporarily, only to follow suit after the other platforms became aware of the permanent suspensions &#8220;because of the risk of further incitement to violence&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juwiss.de\/05-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fertmann, M.; Potthast, K. C. (2021): Digitale time-outs f\u00fcr Trump: Der Anfang vom Ende der privilegierten Behandlung von Amtsinhaber*innen durch soziale Netzwerke? [Digital Time-Outs for Trump: The Beginning of the End of Privileged Treatment of Incumbents by Social Networks?]. 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