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Trump vs Twitter: the battle begins

29 May 2020

5:36 PM

29 May 2020

5:36 PM

When Tony Wang, general manager of Twitter in the UK, described the company as the ‘free speech wing of the free speech party’ he was expressing an ideal that would soon collapse.

This was in 2012, long before the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency was anything other than a flippant punchline in The Simpsons.

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