“The Distorter-in-Chief is Hosting a Summit on Distortion on Social Media”

A New Piece Published by Just Security

I published a new piece in Just Security about the intersection of a recent court ruling against President Trump and a summit that he hosted at the White House on social media. As the piece argues:

If Trump really cared about addressing the distortion of dialogue on social media, his next step would be obvious: He’d accept the Second Circuit’s unanimous decision, unblock the many people he’s blocked on Twitter who aren’t named plaintiffs in the case, and commit to something that is the responsibility of every president in the first place — abiding by the First Amendment. Instead, he’s using the White House to host a gripe session among right-wing extremists who insist — contrary to the evidence — that tech companies are treating them unfairly, without even inviting the tech companies themselves.

Read the full piece here!