By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives January 15, 2018
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"The move by the employee--who has not been named--meant that the president's @realdonaldtrump account was down for 11 minutes."How convenient that the president's personal account was "deactivated" by an unnamed employee on their "last day of work" at the social media giant.
"During the brief period of downtime, shortly before 4pm Pacific time (11pm GMT), anyone going to the @realDonaldTrump Twitter page would see the message "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" (Guardian) "After widespread speculation about what had happened, Twitter initially said the account had been inadvertently deactivated "due to human error by a Twitter employee".
"But soon after the company's @Twittergov account posted another statement revealing the outage was due to an employee's action on their final day in the job . "The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again," the company said in a statement. "Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day. We are conducting a full internal review," the new statement said. "The company did not immediately reply to Guardian requests to clarify the process. "Trump tweeted about the incident on Friday morning, hailing it as vindication that his tweeting was "having an impact":My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
"Twitter suspends accounts if they engage in abusive behavior, if they've been hacked or if they are fake or promote spam. The San Francisco-based company has in the past suspended high-profile individuals including the rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, after his sustained hate campaign against the actor Leslie Jones, and the rapper Azealia Banks, who spouted racist venom at the pop singer Zayn Malik. "Trump, who has more than 40 million followers on Twitter, is known for his love of the medium. "It's like owning your own newspaper--without the losses," Trump said of the social media tool in 2012."Unfortunately, Mr. President, you can only "own your own newspaper" if it's not a conservative one. Salacious Silicon Valley will be the eventual collapse of the Republic about whom it is said: Because Without America There is No Free World", and the death of democracy. Meanwhile, the only way readers who care can find out what social media is trying to hide is to read the full story, "How Conservatives Are Being Destroyed by Facebook, Twitter and Google Without Ever Realizing Why" here:
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Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.