Jared Kushner and Dan Scavino reportedly teamed up to keep Trump off fringe social media sites
Technology,Free Speech,Censorship,Donald Trump,Parler
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There are reportedly two big reasons President Trump hasn't joined the social media sites where his far-right supporters tend to gather.
After a violent attack by Trump's supporters on the Capitol led many major social media platforms to ban the president and some of his allies, Trump could have headed to Parler, Gab, or other sites favored by conservatives. But Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, along with White House social media manager Dan Scavino, convinced him otherwise, people familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg.
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