tweeted a conspiracy theory alleging that YouTube removed the shooter's videos quickly because of her left-leaning views.īut connecting Jones to the conservative-censorship narrative, which is largely speculative, normalizes his extreme conspiracy theories. In April 2018, in response to a shooting at YouTube's headquarters that came after the platform said it would stop promoting videos that advertised the sale of guns, Trump Jr. The idea that social-media companies censor conservative voices is something Trump Jr. "A Democrat Senator openly admitting that Big Tech's censorship campaign is really about purging all conservative media," he said. quote-tweeted Murphy's statement by connecting Infowars with other "conservative media" platforms. Chris Murphy of Connecticut called the Infowars ban the "tip of the iceberg" in social-media companies' work to rid their platforms of "hate and lies."
appeared to show support for Alex Jones of Infowars, after the conspiracy theorist was banned from Facebook and YouTube. has aligned himself with Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones previously shared a doctored Instagram image in 2018 that showed his father's approval rating as higher than it truly was. In April, Instagram flagged a post that falsely claimed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had called President Trump's travel ban on China a "war on immigrants." The Democratic senator from New York never said that, and screenshots of a purported Schumer tweet were fabricated, Instagram said. has continued to share misinformation related to the virus. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump Jr. "My only goal and my myopic focus is making sure my father gets re-elected because I want to keep the winning continuing," he said. may run for president in 2024, though he told Axios in March that he has "no intention" of that. Republican strategists and pundits have suggested that Trump Jr. Trump Jr., who was called his father's "ambassador to the fringe" by Politico in 2018, is a popular conservative figure with over 5 million Twitter followers. Since 2016, he has amplified conspiracy theories related to Hillary Clinton, shootings, birtherism, and QAnon-supporting Twitter accounts. This instance is just the latest in Don Jr.'s long history of posting misinformation on social media. The suspension lasted 12 hours before the tweet was removed from the platform and replaced with a banner noting that the tweet violated the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy. Twitter suspended Donald Trump Jr.'s account on July 27 after the president's son posted a viral video with COVID-19 misinformation in it.
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