Giganții IT, Twitter și Facebook versus Trump. Cenzură sau combaterea fake news?
Tech Giants, Twitter and Facebook versus Trump. Censorship or fighting fake news?

Summary/Abstract: In January 2021, Twitter and Facebook locked Trump's accounts after the violence in the US Congress. During the 2020 election year, the IT giants marked several of Trump's posts as misleading and deleted video content that could deceive the public. In his first conference as President, in February 2017, Trump labeled "CNN as fake news," and the next day he posted a message on Twitter accusing several media organizations (NY Times, CNN, NBC News, ABC, CBS) of being "enemies of the American people." In this study, I analyzed the NY Times discourse in the 2020 articles on the dispute between the IT giants and the incumbent President, and how the journalists reflected the content decisions taken by the social media platforms: as censorship or as legitimate fight against fake news.

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