Trump Backs TikTok Over Facebook

Former President Donald Trump targeted Facebook when asked about whether or not TikTok should be banned in the United States during an interview this weekend. The former president restated his opposition to barring the popular social media platform owned by a Chinese tech company and instead cited Facebook’s role in the 2020 election.

The former president warned that Facebook is a “worse” platform than TikTok, which is controlled by the Chinese company ByteDance.

The former president attempted to force ByteDance to give up its stake in the American version of the app during his presidency. Trump said that his actions “gave the option of banning it” within the country.

“I didn’t do any jawboning,” he said. “I didn’t do anything.”

“I just said, ‘You guys want it banned if you want.’ And Congress probably didn’t want it banned, you know, etc. It wasn’t something that I was demanding,” Trump said, adding, “If I demanded it, I think I would have gotten it.”

The Patriot Act … don’t worry, we’re just going after terrorists. We’d never spy on you.

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TikTok … don’t worry, we’re just going after TikTok. We’d never…

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The former president said that Facebook was an “enemy of the people.”

The former president and some of his key allies have been very critical of Facebook, which played a major role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story in the lead-up to the 2020 election. Both Facebook and Twitter barred people from sharing the original New York Post story that linked Hunter Biden to the ‘laptop from hell.’

Since the election, Tesla founder Elon Musk purchased Twitter and renamed it X. The new owner also reinstated a number of banned or suspended accounts, including Trump’s.

Musk also worked with journalist Matt Taibbi to review documents from the previous Twitter leadership, nicknamed the “Twitter Files.” Taibbi’s investigation found a number of actions the previous leadership took that supported Democratic Party causes.

Some of Trump’s supporters remain adamant that the suppression of the story, which was true, played a major role in Trump’s loss in 2020. The former president lost several crucial swing states that decided the Electoral College by just 44,000 votes.