A senior adviser to the former president confirmed the site’s closure, saying it was just an auxiliary tool to rebuild Trump’s presence on social media.
Former President Donald Trump completely withdrew from the internet. After Facebook and Twitter suspended his official accounts, the former president launched his own blog in May; an alternative to be able to communicate, but it did not last a month. On Wednesday, Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the former US president, confirmed the closure of this site, saying that it was only an auxiliary tool to rebuild Trump’s presence on social networks.
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The blog was created for the former president by a company run by his former campaign manager Brad Parscale, the New York Times reported, and was intended to be an online hub for Trump supporters to view his statements issued. Fox News advertised the blog as a “communication platform,” and its purpose, as the site read, was to provide a place to “speak freely and safely. Straight from the desk of Donald J. Trump. “
Your exit from social media
The suspension of Twitter was a hard blow for the ex-president, since since he assumed his presidency he dedicated himself to governing from this social network: @realDonaldTrump had more than 88 million followers. But it also became his tool for spreading conspiracy theories, fake news, and hate. According to The Washington Post , as of October 2020, he had made 15,413 false or misleading claims: 14.6 lies a day.
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“Trump’s primary use of Twitter has been to spread propaganda and manipulate public opinion,” Sam Woolley, director of propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin told CNBC. “He used Twitter to delegitimize information or to delegitimize the positions of his opponents.”
Following the closure of his Facebook and Twitter accounts, it was thought that his new site could rally his supporters, but the Washington Post reported that the blog was attracting virtually no readers. “In the past week, Trump’s website, including his new blog, fundraising page, and online storefront, attracted fewer estimated visitors than Petfinder pet adoption service and Delish recipe site,” reads the article in the American newspaper.
On the other hand, The Guardian reported that the website “mysteriously” collapsed last weekend after the former president published false news about the November elections. This time, according to the British newspaper, Trump mentioned an electoral audit (very questioned) in Arizona in which, according to the former president, there is evidence of fraud. “Shortly after the post was published, the website reported a URL processing error and the blog page went completely black,” The Guardian reported.
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For now, Facebook’s oversight committee ruled last month that its ban should not be lifted, but left the door open for a final decision within a few months.
