Twitter Won’t Let Natl Archives Revive Trump Tweets

Politico reports:

Twitter will not allow the National Archives to make former President Donald Trump’s past tweets from his @realDonaldTrump account available on the social media platform, the company told POLITICO on Wednesday, in the latest display of Silicon Valley’s power over communications channels used by the U.S. government.

The statement came as the National Archives and Records Administration has been working to create an official online archive of Trump’s tweets as president, including those that prompted Twitter to permanently suspend him earlier this year as a threat to public safety.

NARA already maintains archives for the institutional and personal accounts of many other former Trump administration officials, in which the old tweets live on the Twitter platform and users can retweet, like and otherwise interact with them.

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Scoop: @Twitter won’t allow @USNatArchives to make its archived version of @realDonaldTrump available on the platform.

NARA’s already archived 45 other Trump officials’ personal accounts, but still hasn’t finished work on @realDonaldTrump… https://t.co/kFNQZg9OAY via @politico

— Quint Forgey (@QuintForgey) April 7, 2021