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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/06\/07\/technology\/trump-social-media-ban.html","crawl_time":1774202044,"first_indexed_time":1623058293,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/interactive\/2021\/06\/07\/technology\/trump-social-media-ban.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Facebook and Twitter - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["Since Facebook and Twitter banned him, Donald J. Trump, the former president, has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday,\nFacebook said\nthe former president would not be allowed back on its service until at least January 2023, citing a risk to public safety.\nSince his ban and President Biden’s inauguration, he has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks.\nThe reach of Trump’s words before and after his ban from social media\nEach circle\nrepresents a statement made by Mr. Trump. The size of a circle is determined by the number of likes and shares the statement generated across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on posts quoting it, including on Mr. Trump's own account before he was banned.\nTallies of likes and shares come from the 100 most highly liked and shared posts on Facebook and Instagram for each Trump statement. (In most cases, there were fewer than 100 posts quoting each statement.) On Twitter, any posts quoting a given Trump statement that had at least 10 retweets were included.\nThe New York Times examined Mr. Trump’s nearly 1,600 social media posts from Sept. 1 to Jan. 8, the day Mr. Trump was banned from the platforms. We then tracked the social media engagement with the dozens of written statements he made on his personal website, campaign fund-raising site and in email blasts from Jan. 9 until May 5, which was the day that the Facebook Oversight Board, which reviews some content decisions by the company,\nsaid that the company acted appropriately\nin kicking him off the service.\nBefore the ban, the social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. After the ban, that dropped to 36,000 likes and shares. Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many likes or shares as the median post before the ban, if not more.\nHow does that happen?\nMr. Trump had long been his own best promoter on social media. The vast majority of people on Twitter and Facebook interacted directly with Mr. Trump’s posts, either liking or sharing them, The Times analysis found.\nBut after the ban, other popular social media accounts often picked up his messages and posted them themselves. (Last week, Mr. Trump\nshut down\nhis blog, one of the places he made statements.)\nOn Oct. 8, Mr. Trump\ntweeted\nthat the then-Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his running mate, Kamala Harris, lied “constantly.” The post was liked and shared 501,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.\nOn March 21, Mr. Trump published a\nstatement\non his website saying that his administration had handed over “the most secure border in history.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis. “Our Country is being destroyed!” Mr. Trump said. The statement was liked and shared more than 661,000 times.\nComparing how Trump statements spread\nbefore and after the ban\nPosts quoting or originating each Trump statement, sized by total number of likes and shares\nNote: There were no Instagram posts quoting the Oct. 2020 Trump statement. Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets.\nThe Global Disinformation Index, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies disinformation, examined the political leanings of the top accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s statements online after he was barred from Facebook and Twitter. The group classified hundreds of accounts as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, relying on standards that it established through its\nwork on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media\n.\nOne thing that became immediately clear: Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself.\nThe top sharers of the March post included the right-wing publication Breitbart News (159,500 likes and shares), a Facebook page called “President Donald Trump Fan Club” (48,200 likes), Fox News (42,000 likes), and Jenna Ellis (36,700 likes), a lawyer who made regular television appearances as Mr. Trump’s proxy to trumpet his debunked claims of a rigged election.\nBut when Mr. Trump criticizes conservatives, his remarks sometimes get picked up by both the left and right.\nOn Feb. 16, for instance,\nMr. Trump derided Senator Mitch McConnell\n, the minority leader, because of Mr. McConnell’s unwillingness to back Mr. Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election.\nPosts quoting\nTrump’s Feb. 16\nstatement\nSized by total number of likes and shares\nNote: Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets and only the top 100 Facebook posts in total likes and shares.\nThe top sharers on the right, according to the Global Disinformation Index analysis, included “Fox & Friends,” the cable news show, and the right-leaning publication Washington Examiner. On the left, the top sharers included the popular Facebook page Stand With Mueller and the CNN journalist Jim Acosta.\nMany on the right shared the post while agreeing with it, while partisan pages on the left made fun of the intraparty fight. In total, the statement was shared and liked more than 345,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.\nOne topic from Mr. Trump that has not spread far: claims of widespread election fraud.\nThe Times analysis looked at the 10 most popular posts with election misinformation — judged by likes and shares — from Mr. Trump before the social media bans, and compared them with his 10 most popular written statements containing election misinformation after the ban. All the posts included falsehoods about the election -- that the process had been “rigged,” for instance, or that there had been extensive voter fraud.\nBefore the ban, Mr. Trump’s posts garnered 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, his posts earned 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook.\nDisinformation researchers say the difference points to the enormous power the social media companies have in curbing political misinformation, if they choose to wield it. Facebook and Twitter curb the spread of false statements about the November election, though Twitter has loosened its enforcement since March to dedicate more resources to fact-checking in other parts of the world.\n“As the Trump case shows, deplatforming doesn’t ‘solve’ disinformation, but it does disrupt harmful networks and blunt the influence of harmful individuals,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.\nMr. Trump’s statements that got the most engagement after his ban included topics like his commentary on the culture wars (as when he\nurged his followers to boycott baseball\n), praise for particular individuals (like for the\nradio host Rush Limbaugh\n, who recently died) and attacks on President Biden’s policies on issues like the\nborder crisis\nand\ntaxes\n.\nNow that Mr. Trump has lost both the Oval Office and his Twitter account, he has become a kind of digital leader-in-exile, Mr. Brooking said.\nMr. Trump’s supporters can refer to his statements to buttress their arguments, Mr. Brooking said, “but he’s not directly driving the agenda in the way he once was.”\nMethodology\nThis data includes statements made by former President Donald J. Trump between Sept. 1, 2020, and May 5, 2021. Statements include social media posts from Mr. Trump’s accounts and other news releases in his own words, but they do not include social media posts of article headlines or posts reshared from other accounts. To find posts on Facebook and Instagram quoting these statements, we used CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool. We searched for posts that contained exact quotes of the first eight words or complete sentences from each statement in the post — either in text or in images.\nTo measure how much Mr. Trump’s words were engaged with, we selected the posts on Facebook and Instagram with the most likes and shares for each Trump statement, up to 100 for each platform (in most cases, there were fewer than 100 such posts). On Twitter, we selected all posts that had at least 10 retweets. We then added up the total likes and shares received by these posts to determine a proxy for the total amount of interaction for each Trump statement. Mr. Trump’s own posts are included in these tallies.\nThe Global Disinformation Index classified 880 social media accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s words after his ban on Jan. 8 as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, using standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media. The index was able to classify the social media accounts that corresponded to 97 percent of all interaction data with Mr. Trump’s statements post-ban. The remaining 3 percent all had a small number of interactions","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/06\/07\/technology\/trump-social-media-ban.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/06\/07\/technology\/trump-social-media-ban.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Technology](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/technology)\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252Finteractive%252F2021%252F06%252F07%252Ftechnology%252Ftrump-social-media-ban.html&asset=masthead)\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\nTrump Administration\n\n- live[War in the Middle East](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/03\/22\/world\/iran-war-oil-trump)\n- [Pentagon Restrictions Ruling](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/20\/business\/media\/pentagon-press-restrictions-new-york-times.html)\n- [Military Housing for Officials](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-aides-military-housing.html)\n- [Harvard Lawsuit](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/20\/us\/trump-harvard-antisemitism-suit.html)\n- [Approval Rating](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html)\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/06\/07\/technology\/trump-social-media-ban.html#after-top)\n\n# What Happened When Trump Was Banned on Social Media\nBy [Davey Alba](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/davey-alba)[Ella Koeze](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/ella-koeze) and Jacob SilverJune 7, 2021\n\n[Leer en español](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/es\/interactive\/2021\/06\/14\/technology\/trump-suspension-cuenta-redes.html \"Read in Spanish\")\n\n- Share full article\n- 306\n\nWhen Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, [Facebook said](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/04\/technology\/facebook-trump-ban.html) the former president would not be allowed back on its service until at least January 2023, citing a risk to public safety.\n\nSince his ban and President Biden’s inauguration, he has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks.\n\n### The reach of Trump’s words before and after his ban from social media\n#### Each circle  represents a statement made by Mr. Trump. The size of a circle is determined by the number of likes and shares the statement generated across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on posts quoting it, including on Mr. Trump's own account before he was banned.\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\n“The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...”\n\nBoth President Trump’s own posts and those directly\n\nquoting him were liked and shared 4\\.6 million times\n\non Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\n\nOct. 2020\n\n“I WON THIS\n\nELECTION, BY\n\nA LOT!”\n\n4\\.7 million\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nJan. 2021\n\nDonald Trump\n\nbanned from\n\nsocial media\n\n“To all of those who have\n\nasked, I will not be going\n\nto the Inauguration on\n\nJanuary 20th.”\n\n“This has been yet another\n\nphase of the greatest\n\nwitch hunt in the history\n\nof our Country...”\n\n2\\.5 million\n\nPosts quoting this Trump\n\nstatement on his second\n\nimpeachment got 2 million\n\nlikes and shares, even\n\nwithout Mr. Trump being\n\nable to post it himself.\n\nApril\n\nMAY\n\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\n“The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...”\n\nBoth President Trump’s own posts and those directly\n\nquoting him were liked and shared 4\\.6 million times\n\non Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\n\nOct. 2020\n\n“I WON THIS\n\nELECTION,\n\nBY A LOT!”\n\n4\\.7 million\n\nNov.\n\nDec.\n\nJan. 2021\n\nDonald Trump banned\n\nfrom social media\n\n“To all of those who have\n\nasked, I will not be going\n\nto the Inauguration on\n\nJanuary 20th.”\n\nFeb.\n\n2\\.5 million\n\n“This has been yet another phase\n\nof the greatest witch hunt in the\n\nhistory of our Country...”\n\nMarch\n\nPosts quoting this Trump statement\n\non his second impeachment got\n\n2 million likes and shares across social\n\nmedia, even without Mr. Trump being\n\nable to post it himself.\n\nApril\n\nMAY\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/2021\/04\/19\/trump-words\/24e89619020f5c84bb023465a44d93f7d2b01fdf\/overall-update-900.png)\n\nDonald Trump banned\n\nfrom social media\n\n“The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...”\n\nBoth President Trump’s own posts and those directly\n\nquoting him were liked and shared 4\\.6 million times\n\non Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.\n\n“I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!”\n\n4\\.7 million\n\n“This has been yet another phase of the greatest\n\nwitch hunt in the history of our Country...”\n\nPosts quoting this Trump statement on his second\n\nimpeachment got 2 million likes and shares across social\n\nmedia, even without Mr. Trump being able to post it himself.\n\n“To all of those who have asked, I will not be\n\ngoing to the Inauguration on January 20th.”\n\n2\\.5 million\n\nOctober 2020\n\nNovember\n\nDecember\n\nJanuary 2021\n\nFebruary\n\nMarch\n\nApril\n\nMAY\n\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\n“The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...”\n\n“I WON THIS ELECTION,\n\nBY A LOT!”\n\nBoth President Trump’s own posts and those\n\ndirectly quoting him were liked and shared\n\n4\\.6 million times on Twitter,\n\nFacebook and Instagram.\n\n4\\.7 million\n\nDonald Trump\n\nbanned from social media\n\n“This has been yet another phase of the greatest\n\nwitch hunt in the history of our Country...”\n\nPosts quoting this Trump statement on his second impeachment\n\ngot 2 million likes and shares across social media, even without\n\nMr. Trump being able to post it himself.\n\n“To all of those who have asked, I will not be\n\ngoing to the Inauguration on January 20th.”\n\n2\\.5 million\n\nOctober 2020\n\nNovember\n\nDecember\n\nJanuary 2021\n\nFebruary\n\nMarch\n\nApril\n\nMAY\n\nTallies of likes and shares come from the 100 most highly liked and shared posts on Facebook and Instagram for each Trump statement. (In most cases, there were fewer than 100 posts quoting each statement.) On Twitter, any posts quoting a given Trump statement that had at least 10 retweets were included.\n\nThe New York Times examined Mr. Trump’s nearly 1,600 social media posts from Sept. 1 to Jan. 8, the day Mr. Trump was banned from the platforms. We then tracked the social media engagement with the dozens of written statements he made on his personal website, campaign fund-raising site and in email blasts from Jan. 9 until May 5, which was the day that the Facebook Oversight Board, which reviews some content decisions by the company, [said that the company acted appropriately](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) in kicking him off the service.\n\nBefore the ban, the social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. After the ban, that dropped to 36,000 likes and shares. Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many likes or shares as the median post before the ban, if not more.\n\nHow does that happen?\n\nMr. Trump had long been his own best promoter on social media. The vast majority of people on Twitter and Facebook interacted directly with Mr. Trump’s posts, either liking or sharing them, The Times analysis found.\n\nBut after the ban, other popular social media accounts often picked up his messages and posted them themselves. (Last week, Mr. Trump [shut down](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) his blog, one of the places he made statements.)\n\nOn Oct. 8, Mr. Trump [tweeted](http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201213013711\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1314234952612024322) that the then-Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his running mate, Kamala Harris, lied “constantly.” The post was liked and shared 501,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.\n\nOn March 21, Mr. Trump published a [statement](https:\/\/www.45office.com\/news\/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_4) on his website saying that his administration had handed over “the most secure border in history.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis. “Our Country is being destroyed!” Mr. Trump said. The statement was liked and shared more than 661,000 times.\n\n### **Comparing how Trump statements spread** **before and after the ban**\n#### Posts quoting or originating each Trump statement, sized by total number of likes and shares\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\nLeft-leaning accounts\n\nRight-leaning accounts\n\nMixed politics\n\nAn Oct. 8, 2020 statement with\n\nabout half a million total likes and shares\n\nFacebook\n\n250,000 likes and shares on 57 posts\n\nDonald J. Trump post\n\n253,000 likes and shares\n\nCNN News18\n\nTwitter\n\n250,000 likes and retweets on 2 posts\n\n@realDonaldTrump post\n\n248,000 likes and retweets\n\n@MallinenMatti\n\nA March 21, 2021 statement with\n\nabout half a million total likes and shares\n\nFacebook\n\n390,000 likes and shares on 100 posts\n\nTrending\n\nPolitics\n\n33,000\n\nBreitbart\n\n83,000\n\nPresident\n\nDonald Trump\n\nFan Club\n\n48,000\n\nI Love My\n\nFreedom\n\n47,000\n\nTwitter\n\n110,000 likes and retweets on 21 posts\n\n@JennaEllisEsq\n\n37,000\n\nInstagram\n\n170,000 likes and reposts on 14 posts\n\nDonald\n\nTrump\n\nFan Page\n\n31,000\n\nBreitbart\n\n77,000\n\nFox News\n\n43,000\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/2021\/04\/19\/trump-words\/24e89619020f5c84bb023465a44d93f7d2b01fdf\/post-1-600.png)\n\nLeft-leaning accounts\n\nMixed politics\n\nRight-leaning accounts\n\nAn Oct. 8, 2020 statement with\n\nabout half a million total likes and shares\n\nTwitter\n\n250,000 likes and\n\nretweets on 2 posts\n\nFacebook\n\n250,000 likes and\n\nshares on 57 posts\n\n@realDonaldTrump post\n\n248,000 likes and retweets\n\nDonald J. Trump post\n\n253,000 likes and shares\n\n@MallinenMatti\n\nCNN News18\n\nA March 21, 2021 statement with\n\nabout half a million total likes and shares\n\nInstagram\n\n170,000 likes and reposts on 14 posts\n\nFacebook\n\n390,000 likes and shares on 100 posts\n\nDonald\n\nTrump\n\nFan Page\n\n31,000\n\nTrending\n\nPolitics\n\n33,000\n\nBreitbart\n\n77,000\n\nBreitbart\n\n83,000\n\nFox News\n\n43,000\n\nPresident\n\nDonald Trump\n\nFan Club\n\n48,000\n\nI Love My\n\nFreedom\n\n47,000\n\n@JennaEllisEsq\n\n37,000\n\nTwitter\n\n110,000 likes\n\nand retweets\n\non 21 posts\n\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\nLeft-leaning accounts\n\nRight-leaning accounts\n\nMixed politics\n\nAn Oct. 8, 2020 statement with\n\nabout half a million total likes and shares\n\nA March 21, 2021 statement with\n\nabout half a million total likes and shares\n\nInstagram\n\n170,000 likes and reposts on 14 posts\n\nFacebook\n\n390,000 likes and\n\nshares on 100 posts\n\nDonald\n\nTrump\n\nFan Page\n\n31,000\n\nFacebook\n\n250,000 likes\n\nand shares\n\non 57 posts\n\nTrending\n\nPolitics\n\n33,000\n\nDonald J. Trump post\n\n253,000 likes and shares\n\nBreitbart\n\n77,000\n\nBreitbart\n\n83,000\n\nFox News\n\n43,000\n\nCNN News18\n\nPresident\n\nDonald Trump\n\nFan Club\n\n48,000\n\nI Love My\n\nFreedom\n\n47,000\n\nTwitter\n\n250,000 likes\n\nand retweets\n\non 2 posts\n\n@JennaEllisEsq\n\n37,000\n\n@realDonaldTrump post\n\n248,000 likes and retweets\n\nTwitter\n\n110,000 likes\n\nand retweets\n\non 21 posts\n\n@MallinenMatti\n\nNote: There were no Instagram posts quoting the Oct. 2020 Trump statement. Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets.\n\nThe Global Disinformation Index, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies disinformation, examined the political leanings of the top accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s statements online after he was barred from Facebook and Twitter. The group classified hundreds of accounts as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, relying on standards that it established through its [work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media](https:\/\/disinformationindex.org\/the-index\/).\n\nOne thing that became immediately clear: Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself.\n\nThe top sharers of the March post included the right-wing publication Breitbart News (159,500 likes and shares), a Facebook page called “President Donald Trump Fan Club” (48,200 likes), Fox News (42,000 likes), and Jenna Ellis (36,700 likes), a lawyer who made regular television appearances as Mr. Trump’s proxy to trumpet his debunked claims of a rigged election.\n\nBut when Mr. Trump criticizes conservatives, his remarks sometimes get picked up by both the left and right.\n\nOn Feb. 16, for instance, [Mr. Trump derided Senator Mitch McConnell](https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america), the minority leader, because of Mr. McConnell’s unwillingness to back Mr. Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election.\n\n### **Posts quoting** **Trump’s Feb. 16** **statement**\n#### Sized by total number of likes and shares\n![](data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==)\n\nLeft-leaning accounts\n\nRight-leaning accounts\n\nMixed politics\n\nFacebook\n\n230,000 likes and shares on 100 posts\n\nAmerica's Voice News\n\nStandwithMueller\n\n12,000\n\n5,000\n\nNewsmax\n\n49,000\n\nBBC\n\nNews\n\nFox &\n\nFriends\n\n19,000\n\n15,000\n\nWashington\n\nExaminer\n\nTwitter\n\n120,000 likes and retweets on 26 posts\n\n@MZHemingway\n\n17,000\n\n14,000\n\n@kylegriffin1\n\n@JackPosobiec\n\n31,000\n\n6,000\n\n9,000\n\n@Acosta\n\nInstagram\n\n300 likes and reposts on 2 posts\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/newsgraphics\/2021\/04\/19\/trump-words\/24e89619020f5c84bb023465a44d93f7d2b01fdf\/post-2-600.png)\n\nLeft-leaning accounts\n\nRight-leaning accounts\n\nMixed politics\n\nTwitter\n\n120,000 likes and retweets\n\non 26 posts\n\nFacebook\n\n230,000 likes and shares on 100 posts\n\nWashington\n\nExaminer\n\n@MZHemingway\n\n15,000\n\n@JackPosobiec\n\n31,000\n\nNewsmax\n\n49,000\n\nAmerica's\n\nVoice\n\nNews\n\n17,000\n\n12,000\n\nFox &\n\nFriends\n\n19,000\n\n@Acosta\n\n9,000\n\nBBC\n\nNews\n\n6,000\n\n14,000\n\n@kylegriffin1\n\n5,000\n\nInstagram\n\n300 likes and reposts on 2 posts\n\nStandwithMueller\n\nNote: Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets and only the top 100 Facebook posts in total likes and shares.\n\nThe top sharers on the right, according to the Global Disinformation Index analysis, included “Fox & Friends,” the cable news show, and the right-leaning publication Washington Examiner. On the left, the top sharers included the popular Facebook page Stand With Mueller and the CNN journalist Jim Acosta.\n\nMany on the right shared the post while agreeing with it, while partisan pages on the left made fun of the intraparty fight. In total, the statement was shared and liked more than 345,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.\n\nOne topic from Mr. Trump that has not spread far: claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nThe Times analysis looked at the 10 most popular posts with election misinformation — judged by likes and shares — from Mr. Trump before the social media bans, and compared them with his 10 most popular written statements containing election misinformation after the ban. All the posts included falsehoods about the election -- that the process had been “rigged,” for instance, or that there had been extensive voter fraud.\n\nBefore the ban, Mr. Trump’s posts garnered 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, his posts earned 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook.\n\nDisinformation researchers say the difference points to the enormous power the social media companies have in curbing political misinformation, if they choose to wield it. Facebook and Twitter curb the spread of false statements about the November election, though Twitter has loosened its enforcement since March to dedicate more resources to fact-checking in other parts of the world.\n\n“As the Trump case shows, deplatforming doesn’t ‘solve’ disinformation, but it does disrupt harmful networks and blunt the influence of harmful individuals,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.\n\nMr. Trump’s statements that got the most engagement after his ban included topics like his commentary on the culture wars (as when he [urged his followers to boycott baseball](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNL5ITjA6kC\/)), praise for particular individuals (like for the [radio host Rush Limbaugh](https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1362122520036585473), who recently died) and attacks on President Biden’s policies on issues like the [border crisis](https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennaEllisEsq\/status\/1373763865058680833) and [taxes](https:\/\/twitter.com\/RSBNetwork\/status\/1377316916453380098).\n\nNow that Mr. Trump has lost both the Oval Office and his Twitter account, he has become a kind of digital leader-in-exile, Mr. Brooking said.\n\nMr. Trump’s supporters can refer to his statements to buttress their arguments, Mr. Brooking said, “but he’s not directly driving the agenda in the way he once was.”\n\nMethodology\n\nThis data includes statements made by former President Donald J. Trump between Sept. 1, 2020, and May 5, 2021. Statements include social media posts from Mr. Trump’s accounts and other news releases in his own words, but they do not include social media posts of article headlines or posts reshared from other accounts. To find posts on Facebook and Instagram quoting these statements, we used CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool. We searched for posts that contained exact quotes of the first eight words or complete sentences from each statement in the post — either in text or in images.\n\nTo measure how much Mr. Trump’s words were engaged with, we selected the posts on Facebook and Instagram with the most likes and shares for each Trump statement, up to 100 for each platform (in most cases, there were fewer than 100 such posts). On Twitter, we selected all posts that had at least 10 retweets. We then added up the total likes and shares received by these posts to determine a proxy for the total amount of interaction for each Trump statement. Mr. Trump’s own posts are included in these tallies.\n\nThe Global Disinformation Index classified 880 social media accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s words after his ban on Jan. 8 as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, using standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media. The index was able to classify the social media accounts that corresponded to 97 percent of all interaction data with Mr. Trump’s statements post-ban. 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Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, [Facebook said](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/04\/technology\/facebook-trump-ban.html) the former president would not be allowed back on its service until at least January 2023, citing a risk to public safety.\n\nSince his ban and President Biden’s inauguration, he has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks.\n\n### The reach of Trump’s words before and after his ban from social media\n#### Each circle  represents a statement made by Mr. Trump. The size of a circle is determined by the number of likes and shares the statement generated across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on posts quoting it, including on Mr. Trump's own account before he was banned.\nTallies of likes and shares come from the 100 most highly liked and shared posts on Facebook and Instagram for each Trump statement. (In most cases, there were fewer than 100 posts quoting each statement.) On Twitter, any posts quoting a given Trump statement that had at least 10 retweets were included.\n\nThe New York Times examined Mr. Trump’s nearly 1,600 social media posts from Sept. 1 to Jan. 8, the day Mr. Trump was banned from the platforms. We then tracked the social media engagement with the dozens of written statements he made on his personal website, campaign fund-raising site and in email blasts from Jan. 9 until May 5, which was the day that the Facebook Oversight Board, which reviews some content decisions by the company, [said that the company acted appropriately](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) in kicking him off the service.\n\nBefore the ban, the social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. After the ban, that dropped to 36,000 likes and shares. Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many likes or shares as the median post before the ban, if not more.\n\nHow does that happen?\n\nMr. Trump had long been his own best promoter on social media. The vast majority of people on Twitter and Facebook interacted directly with Mr. Trump’s posts, either liking or sharing them, The Times analysis found.\n\nBut after the ban, other popular social media accounts often picked up his messages and posted them themselves. (Last week, Mr. Trump [shut down](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) his blog, one of the places he made statements.)\n\nOn Oct. 8, Mr. Trump [tweeted](http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201213013711\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1314234952612024322) that the then-Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his running mate, Kamala Harris, lied “constantly.” The post was liked and shared 501,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.\n\nOn March 21, Mr. Trump published a [statement](https:\/\/www.45office.com\/news\/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_4) on his website saying that his administration had handed over “the most secure border in history.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis. “Our Country is being destroyed!” Mr. Trump said. The statement was liked and shared more than 661,000 times.\n\n### **Comparing how Trump statements spread** **before and after the ban**\n#### Posts quoting or originating each Trump statement, sized by total number of likes and shares\nNote: There were no Instagram posts quoting the Oct. 2020 Trump statement. Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets.\n\nThe Global Disinformation Index, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies disinformation, examined the political leanings of the top accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s statements online after he was barred from Facebook and Twitter. The group classified hundreds of accounts as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, relying on standards that it established through its [work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media](https:\/\/disinformationindex.org\/the-index\/).\n\nOne thing that became immediately clear: Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself.\n\nThe top sharers of the March post included the right-wing publication Breitbart News (159,500 likes and shares), a Facebook page called “President Donald Trump Fan Club” (48,200 likes), Fox News (42,000 likes), and Jenna Ellis (36,700 likes), a lawyer who made regular television appearances as Mr. Trump’s proxy to trumpet his debunked claims of a rigged election.\n\nBut when Mr. Trump criticizes conservatives, his remarks sometimes get picked up by both the left and right.\n\nOn Feb. 16, for instance, [Mr. Trump derided Senator Mitch McConnell](https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america), the minority leader, because of Mr. McConnell’s unwillingness to back Mr. Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election.\n\n### **Posts quoting** **Trump’s Feb. 16** **statement**\n#### Sized by total number of likes and shares\nNote: Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets and only the top 100 Facebook posts in total likes and shares.\n\nThe top sharers on the right, according to the Global Disinformation Index analysis, included “Fox & Friends,” the cable news show, and the right-leaning publication Washington Examiner. On the left, the top sharers included the popular Facebook page Stand With Mueller and the CNN journalist Jim Acosta.\n\nMany on the right shared the post while agreeing with it, while partisan pages on the left made fun of the intraparty fight. In total, the statement was shared and liked more than 345,000 times on Facebook and Twitter.\n\nOne topic from Mr. Trump that has not spread far: claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nThe Times analysis looked at the 10 most popular posts with election misinformation — judged by likes and shares — from Mr. Trump before the social media bans, and compared them with his 10 most popular written statements containing election misinformation after the ban. All the posts included falsehoods about the election -- that the process had been “rigged,” for instance, or that there had been extensive voter fraud.\n\nBefore the ban, Mr. Trump’s posts garnered 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, his posts earned 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook.\n\nDisinformation researchers say the difference points to the enormous power the social media companies have in curbing political misinformation, if they choose to wield it. Facebook and Twitter curb the spread of false statements about the November election, though Twitter has loosened its enforcement since March to dedicate more resources to fact-checking in other parts of the world.\n\n“As the Trump case shows, deplatforming doesn’t ‘solve’ disinformation, but it does disrupt harmful networks and blunt the influence of harmful individuals,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation.\n\nMr. Trump’s statements that got the most engagement after his ban included topics like his commentary on the culture wars (as when he [urged his followers to boycott baseball](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CNL5ITjA6kC\/)), praise for particular individuals (like for the [radio host Rush Limbaugh](https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1362122520036585473), who recently died) and attacks on President Biden’s policies on issues like the [border crisis](https:\/\/twitter.com\/JennaEllisEsq\/status\/1373763865058680833) and [taxes](https:\/\/twitter.com\/RSBNetwork\/status\/1377316916453380098).\n\nNow that Mr. Trump has lost both the Oval Office and his Twitter account, he has become a kind of digital leader-in-exile, Mr. Brooking said.\n\nMr. Trump’s supporters can refer to his statements to buttress their arguments, Mr. Brooking said, “but he’s not directly driving the agenda in the way he once was.”\n\nMethodology\n\nThis data includes statements made by former President Donald J. Trump between Sept. 1, 2020, and May 5, 2021. Statements include social media posts from Mr. Trump’s accounts and other news releases in his own words, but they do not include social media posts of article headlines or posts reshared from other accounts. To find posts on Facebook and Instagram quoting these statements, we used CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool. We searched for posts that contained exact quotes of the first eight words or complete sentences from each statement in the post — either in text or in images.\n\nTo measure how much Mr. Trump’s words were engaged with, we selected the posts on Facebook and Instagram with the most likes and shares for each Trump statement, up to 100 for each platform (in most cases, there were fewer than 100 such posts). On Twitter, we selected all posts that had at least 10 retweets. We then added up the total likes and shares received by these posts to determine a proxy for the total amount of interaction for each Trump statement. Mr. Trump’s own posts are included in these tallies.\n\nThe Global Disinformation Index classified 880 social media accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s words after his ban on Jan. 8 as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, using standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media. The index was able to classify the social media accounts that corresponded to 97 percent of all interaction data with Mr. Trump’s statements post-ban. The remaining 3 percent all had a small number of interactions","meta_canonical":null}

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Boilerpipe Text	When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, Facebook said the former president would not be allowed back on its service until at least January 2023, citing a risk to public safety. Since his ban and President Biden’s inauguration, he has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks. The reach of Trump’s words before and after his ban from social media Each circle represents a statement made by Mr. Trump. The size of a circle is determined by the number of likes and shares the statement generated across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on posts quoting it, including on Mr. Trump's own account before he was banned. Tallies of likes and shares come from the 100 most highly liked and shared posts on Facebook and Instagram for each Trump statement. (In most cases, there were fewer than 100 posts quoting each statement.) On Twitter, any posts quoting a given Trump statement that had at least 10 retweets were included. The New York Times examined Mr. Trump’s nearly 1,600 social media posts from Sept. 1 to Jan. 8, the day Mr. Trump was banned from the platforms. We then tracked the social media engagement with the dozens of written statements he made on his personal website, campaign fund-raising site and in email blasts from Jan. 9 until May 5, which was the day that the Facebook Oversight Board, which reviews some content decisions by the company, said that the company acted appropriately in kicking him off the service. Before the ban, the social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. After the ban, that dropped to 36,000 likes and shares. Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many likes or shares as the median post before the ban, if not more. How does that happen? Mr. Trump had long been his own best promoter on social media. The vast majority of people on Twitter and Facebook interacted directly with Mr. Trump’s posts, either liking or sharing them, The Times analysis found. But after the ban, other popular social media accounts often picked up his messages and posted them themselves. (Last week, Mr. Trump shut down his blog, one of the places he made statements.) On Oct. 8, Mr. Trump tweeted that the then-Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his running mate, Kamala Harris, lied “constantly.” The post was liked and shared 501,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. On March 21, Mr. Trump published a statement on his website saying that his administration had handed over “the most secure border in history.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis. “Our Country is being destroyed!” Mr. Trump said. The statement was liked and shared more than 661,000 times. Comparing how Trump statements spread before and after the ban Posts quoting or originating each Trump statement, sized by total number of likes and shares Note: There were no Instagram posts quoting the Oct. 2020 Trump statement. Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets. The Global Disinformation Index, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies disinformation, examined the political leanings of the top accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s statements online after he was barred from Facebook and Twitter. The group classified hundreds of accounts as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, relying on standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media . One thing that became immediately clear: Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself. The top sharers of the March post included the right-wing publication Breitbart News (159,500 likes and shares), a Facebook page called “President Donald Trump Fan Club” (48,200 likes), Fox News (42,000 likes), and Jenna Ellis (36,700 likes), a lawyer who made regular television appearances as Mr. Trump’s proxy to trumpet his debunked claims of a rigged election. But when Mr. Trump criticizes conservatives, his remarks sometimes get picked up by both the left and right. On Feb. 16, for instance, Mr. Trump derided Senator Mitch McConnell , the minority leader, because of Mr. McConnell’s unwillingness to back Mr. Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election. Posts quoting Trump’s Feb. 16 statement Sized by total number of likes and shares Note: Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets and only the top 100 Facebook posts in total likes and shares. The top sharers on the right, according to the Global Disinformation Index analysis, included “Fox & Friends,” the cable news show, and the right-leaning publication Washington Examiner. On the left, the top sharers included the popular Facebook page Stand With Mueller and the CNN journalist Jim Acosta. Many on the right shared the post while agreeing with it, while partisan pages on the left made fun of the intraparty fight. In total, the statement was shared and liked more than 345,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. One topic from Mr. Trump that has not spread far: claims of widespread election fraud. The Times analysis looked at the 10 most popular posts with election misinformation — judged by likes and shares — from Mr. Trump before the social media bans, and compared them with his 10 most popular written statements containing election misinformation after the ban. All the posts included falsehoods about the election -- that the process had been “rigged,” for instance, or that there had been extensive voter fraud. Before the ban, Mr. Trump’s posts garnered 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, his posts earned 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook. Disinformation researchers say the difference points to the enormous power the social media companies have in curbing political misinformation, if they choose to wield it. Facebook and Twitter curb the spread of false statements about the November election, though Twitter has loosened its enforcement since March to dedicate more resources to fact-checking in other parts of the world. “As the Trump case shows, deplatforming doesn’t ‘solve’ disinformation, but it does disrupt harmful networks and blunt the influence of harmful individuals,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation. Mr. Trump’s statements that got the most engagement after his ban included topics like his commentary on the culture wars (as when he urged his followers to boycott baseball ), praise for particular individuals (like for the radio host Rush Limbaugh , who recently died) and attacks on President Biden’s policies on issues like the border crisis and taxes . Now that Mr. Trump has lost both the Oval Office and his Twitter account, he has become a kind of digital leader-in-exile, Mr. Brooking said. Mr. Trump’s supporters can refer to his statements to buttress their arguments, Mr. Brooking said, “but he’s not directly driving the agenda in the way he once was.” Methodology This data includes statements made by former President Donald J. Trump between Sept. 1, 2020, and May 5, 2021. Statements include social media posts from Mr. Trump’s accounts and other news releases in his own words, but they do not include social media posts of article headlines or posts reshared from other accounts. To find posts on Facebook and Instagram quoting these statements, we used CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool. We searched for posts that contained exact quotes of the first eight words or complete sentences from each statement in the post — either in text or in images. To measure how much Mr. Trump’s words were engaged with, we selected the posts on Facebook and Instagram with the most likes and shares for each Trump statement, up to 100 for each platform (in most cases, there were fewer than 100 such posts). On Twitter, we selected all posts that had at least 10 retweets. We then added up the total likes and shares received by these posts to determine a proxy for the total amount of interaction for each Trump statement. Mr. Trump’s own posts are included in these tallies. The Global Disinformation Index classified 880 social media accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s words after his ban on Jan. 8 as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, using standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media. The index was able to classify the social media accounts that corresponded to 97 percent of all interaction data with Mr. Trump’s statements post-ban. The remaining 3 percent all had a small number of interactions
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Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, [Facebook said](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/technology/facebook-trump-ban.html) the former president would not be allowed back on its service until at least January 2023, citing a risk to public safety. Since his ban and President Biden’s inauguration, he has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks. ### The reach of Trump’s words before and after his ban from social media #### Each circle represents a statement made by Mr. Trump. The size of a circle is determined by the number of likes and shares the statement generated across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on posts quoting it, including on Mr. Trump's own account before he was banned. ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) “The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...” Both President Trump’s own posts and those directly quoting him were liked and shared 4\.6 million times on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Oct. 2020 “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” 4\.7 million Nov. Dec. Jan. 2021 Donald Trump banned from social media “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” “This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country...” 2\.5 million Posts quoting this Trump statement on his second impeachment got 2 million likes and shares, even without Mr. Trump being able to post it himself. April MAY ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) “The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...” Both President Trump’s own posts and those directly quoting him were liked and shared 4\.6 million times on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Oct. 2020 “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” 4\.7 million Nov. Dec. Jan. 2021 Donald Trump banned from social media “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” Feb. 2\.5 million “This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country...” March Posts quoting this Trump statement on his second impeachment got 2 million likes and shares across social media, even without Mr. Trump being able to post it himself. April MAY ![](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/04/19/trump-words/24e89619020f5c84bb023465a44d93f7d2b01fdf/overall-update-900.png) Donald Trump banned from social media “The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...” Both President Trump’s own posts and those directly quoting him were liked and shared 4\.6 million times on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” 4\.7 million “This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country...” Posts quoting this Trump statement on his second impeachment got 2 million likes and shares across social media, even without Mr. Trump being able to post it himself. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” 2\.5 million October 2020 November December January 2021 February March April MAY ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) “The First Lady and I tested positive for COVID-19 ...” “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” Both President Trump’s own posts and those directly quoting him were liked and shared 4\.6 million times on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. 4\.7 million Donald Trump banned from social media “This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country...” Posts quoting this Trump statement on his second impeachment got 2 million likes and shares across social media, even without Mr. Trump being able to post it himself. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” 2\.5 million October 2020 November December January 2021 February March April MAY Tallies of likes and shares come from the 100 most highly liked and shared posts on Facebook and Instagram for each Trump statement. (In most cases, there were fewer than 100 posts quoting each statement.) On Twitter, any posts quoting a given Trump statement that had at least 10 retweets were included. The New York Times examined Mr. Trump’s nearly 1,600 social media posts from Sept. 1 to Jan. 8, the day Mr. Trump was banned from the platforms. We then tracked the social media engagement with the dozens of written statements he made on his personal website, campaign fund-raising site and in email blasts from Jan. 9 until May 5, which was the day that the Facebook Oversight Board, which reviews some content decisions by the company, [said that the company acted appropriately](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) in kicking him off the service. Before the ban, the social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. After the ban, that dropped to 36,000 likes and shares. Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many likes or shares as the median post before the ban, if not more. How does that happen? Mr. Trump had long been his own best promoter on social media. The vast majority of people on Twitter and Facebook interacted directly with Mr. Trump’s posts, either liking or sharing them, The Times analysis found. But after the ban, other popular social media accounts often picked up his messages and posted them themselves. (Last week, Mr. Trump [shut down](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) his blog, one of the places he made statements.) On Oct. 8, Mr. Trump [tweeted](http://web.archive.org/web/20201213013711/https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1314234952612024322) that the then-Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his running mate, Kamala Harris, lied “constantly.” The post was liked and shared 501,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. On March 21, Mr. Trump published a [statement](https://www.45office.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_4) on his website saying that his administration had handed over “the most secure border in history.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis. “Our Country is being destroyed!” Mr. Trump said. The statement was liked and shared more than 661,000 times. ### Comparing how Trump statements spread before and after the ban #### Posts quoting or originating each Trump statement, sized by total number of likes and shares ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) Left-leaning accounts Right-leaning accounts Mixed politics An Oct. 8, 2020 statement with about half a million total likes and shares Facebook 250,000 likes and shares on 57 posts Donald J. Trump post 253,000 likes and shares CNN News18 Twitter 250,000 likes and retweets on 2 posts @realDonaldTrump post 248,000 likes and retweets @MallinenMatti A March 21, 2021 statement with about half a million total likes and shares Facebook 390,000 likes and shares on 100 posts Trending Politics 33,000 Breitbart 83,000 President Donald Trump Fan Club 48,000 I Love My Freedom 47,000 Twitter 110,000 likes and retweets on 21 posts @JennaEllisEsq 37,000 Instagram 170,000 likes and reposts on 14 posts Donald Trump Fan Page 31,000 Breitbart 77,000 Fox News 43,000 ![](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/04/19/trump-words/24e89619020f5c84bb023465a44d93f7d2b01fdf/post-1-600.png) Left-leaning accounts Mixed politics Right-leaning accounts An Oct. 8, 2020 statement with about half a million total likes and shares Twitter 250,000 likes and retweets on 2 posts Facebook 250,000 likes and shares on 57 posts @realDonaldTrump post 248,000 likes and retweets Donald J. Trump post 253,000 likes and shares @MallinenMatti CNN News18 A March 21, 2021 statement with about half a million total likes and shares Instagram 170,000 likes and reposts on 14 posts Facebook 390,000 likes and shares on 100 posts Donald Trump Fan Page 31,000 Trending Politics 33,000 Breitbart 77,000 Breitbart 83,000 Fox News 43,000 President Donald Trump Fan Club 48,000 I Love My Freedom 47,000 @JennaEllisEsq 37,000 Twitter 110,000 likes and retweets on 21 posts ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) Left-leaning accounts Right-leaning accounts Mixed politics An Oct. 8, 2020 statement with about half a million total likes and shares A March 21, 2021 statement with about half a million total likes and shares Instagram 170,000 likes and reposts on 14 posts Facebook 390,000 likes and shares on 100 posts Donald Trump Fan Page 31,000 Facebook 250,000 likes and shares on 57 posts Trending Politics 33,000 Donald J. Trump post 253,000 likes and shares Breitbart 77,000 Breitbart 83,000 Fox News 43,000 CNN News18 President Donald Trump Fan Club 48,000 I Love My Freedom 47,000 Twitter 250,000 likes and retweets on 2 posts @JennaEllisEsq 37,000 @realDonaldTrump post 248,000 likes and retweets Twitter 110,000 likes and retweets on 21 posts @MallinenMatti Note: There were no Instagram posts quoting the Oct. 2020 Trump statement. Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets. The Global Disinformation Index, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies disinformation, examined the political leanings of the top accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s statements online after he was barred from Facebook and Twitter. The group classified hundreds of accounts as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, relying on standards that it established through its [work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media](https://disinformationindex.org/the-index/). One thing that became immediately clear: Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself. The top sharers of the March post included the right-wing publication Breitbart News (159,500 likes and shares), a Facebook page called “President Donald Trump Fan Club” (48,200 likes), Fox News (42,000 likes), and Jenna Ellis (36,700 likes), a lawyer who made regular television appearances as Mr. Trump’s proxy to trumpet his debunked claims of a rigged election. But when Mr. Trump criticizes conservatives, his remarks sometimes get picked up by both the left and right. On Feb. 16, for instance, [Mr. Trump derided Senator Mitch McConnell](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america), the minority leader, because of Mr. McConnell’s unwillingness to back Mr. Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election. ### Posts quoting Trump’s Feb. 16 statement #### Sized by total number of likes and shares ![](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhCgAKAIAAAB8fHwAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAAKAAoAAAIIhI+py+0PYysAOw==) Left-leaning accounts Right-leaning accounts Mixed politics Facebook 230,000 likes and shares on 100 posts America's Voice News StandwithMueller 12,000 5,000 Newsmax 49,000 BBC News Fox & Friends 19,000 15,000 Washington Examiner Twitter 120,000 likes and retweets on 26 posts @MZHemingway 17,000 14,000 @kylegriffin1 @JackPosobiec 31,000 6,000 9,000 @Acosta Instagram 300 likes and reposts on 2 posts ![](https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/04/19/trump-words/24e89619020f5c84bb023465a44d93f7d2b01fdf/post-2-600.png) Left-leaning accounts Right-leaning accounts Mixed politics Twitter 120,000 likes and retweets on 26 posts Facebook 230,000 likes and shares on 100 posts Washington Examiner @MZHemingway 15,000 @JackPosobiec 31,000 Newsmax 49,000 America's Voice News 17,000 12,000 Fox & Friends 19,000 @Acosta 9,000 BBC News 6,000 14,000 @kylegriffin1 5,000 Instagram 300 likes and reposts on 2 posts StandwithMueller Note: Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets and only the top 100 Facebook posts in total likes and shares. The top sharers on the right, according to the Global Disinformation Index analysis, included “Fox & Friends,” the cable news show, and the right-leaning publication Washington Examiner. On the left, the top sharers included the popular Facebook page Stand With Mueller and the CNN journalist Jim Acosta. Many on the right shared the post while agreeing with it, while partisan pages on the left made fun of the intraparty fight. In total, the statement was shared and liked more than 345,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. One topic from Mr. Trump that has not spread far: claims of widespread election fraud. The Times analysis looked at the 10 most popular posts with election misinformation — judged by likes and shares — from Mr. Trump before the social media bans, and compared them with his 10 most popular written statements containing election misinformation after the ban. All the posts included falsehoods about the election -- that the process had been “rigged,” for instance, or that there had been extensive voter fraud. Before the ban, Mr. Trump’s posts garnered 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, his posts earned 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook. Disinformation researchers say the difference points to the enormous power the social media companies have in curbing political misinformation, if they choose to wield it. Facebook and Twitter curb the spread of false statements about the November election, though Twitter has loosened its enforcement since March to dedicate more resources to fact-checking in other parts of the world. “As the Trump case shows, deplatforming doesn’t ‘solve’ disinformation, but it does disrupt harmful networks and blunt the influence of harmful individuals,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation. Mr. Trump’s statements that got the most engagement after his ban included topics like his commentary on the culture wars (as when he [urged his followers to boycott baseball](https://www.instagram.com/p/CNL5ITjA6kC/)), praise for particular individuals (like for the [radio host Rush Limbaugh](https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1362122520036585473), who recently died) and attacks on President Biden’s policies on issues like the [border crisis](https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1373763865058680833) and [taxes](https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1377316916453380098). Now that Mr. Trump has lost both the Oval Office and his Twitter account, he has become a kind of digital leader-in-exile, Mr. Brooking said. Mr. Trump’s supporters can refer to his statements to buttress their arguments, Mr. Brooking said, “but he’s not directly driving the agenda in the way he once was.” Methodology This data includes statements made by former President Donald J. Trump between Sept. 1, 2020, and May 5, 2021. Statements include social media posts from Mr. Trump’s accounts and other news releases in his own words, but they do not include social media posts of article headlines or posts reshared from other accounts. To find posts on Facebook and Instagram quoting these statements, we used CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool. We searched for posts that contained exact quotes of the first eight words or complete sentences from each statement in the post — either in text or in images. To measure how much Mr. Trump’s words were engaged with, we selected the posts on Facebook and Instagram with the most likes and shares for each Trump statement, up to 100 for each platform (in most cases, there were fewer than 100 such posts). On Twitter, we selected all posts that had at least 10 retweets. We then added up the total likes and shares received by these posts to determine a proxy for the total amount of interaction for each Trump statement. Mr. Trump’s own posts are included in these tallies. The Global Disinformation Index classified 880 social media accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s words after his ban on Jan. 8 as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, using standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media. The index was able to classify the social media accounts that corresponded to 97 percent of all interaction data with Mr. Trump’s statements post-ban. 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Readable Markdown	When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, [Facebook said](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/technology/facebook-trump-ban.html) the former president would not be allowed back on its service until at least January 2023, citing a risk to public safety. Since his ban and President Biden’s inauguration, he has posted statements online far less often. But some of his statements have traveled just as far and wide on social networks. ### The reach of Trump’s words before and after his ban from social media #### Each circle represents a statement made by Mr. Trump. The size of a circle is determined by the number of likes and shares the statement generated across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on posts quoting it, including on Mr. Trump's own account before he was banned. Tallies of likes and shares come from the 100 most highly liked and shared posts on Facebook and Instagram for each Trump statement. (In most cases, there were fewer than 100 posts quoting each statement.) On Twitter, any posts quoting a given Trump statement that had at least 10 retweets were included. The New York Times examined Mr. Trump’s nearly 1,600 social media posts from Sept. 1 to Jan. 8, the day Mr. Trump was banned from the platforms. We then tracked the social media engagement with the dozens of written statements he made on his personal website, campaign fund-raising site and in email blasts from Jan. 9 until May 5, which was the day that the Facebook Oversight Board, which reviews some content decisions by the company, [said that the company acted appropriately](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) in kicking him off the service. Before the ban, the social media post with the median engagement generated 272,000 likes and shares. After the ban, that dropped to 36,000 likes and shares. Yet 11 of his 89 statements after the ban attracted as many likes or shares as the median post before the ban, if not more. How does that happen? Mr. Trump had long been his own best promoter on social media. The vast majority of people on Twitter and Facebook interacted directly with Mr. Trump’s posts, either liking or sharing them, The Times analysis found. But after the ban, other popular social media accounts often picked up his messages and posted them themselves. (Last week, Mr. Trump [shut down](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-blog.html) his blog, one of the places he made statements.) On Oct. 8, Mr. Trump [tweeted](http://web.archive.org/web/20201213013711/https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1314234952612024322) that the then-Democratic presidential candidate Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his running mate, Kamala Harris, lied “constantly.” The post was liked and shared 501,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. On March 21, Mr. Trump published a [statement](https://www.45office.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america_4) on his website saying that his administration had handed over “the most secure border in history.” He went on to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of the border crisis. “Our Country is being destroyed!” Mr. Trump said. The statement was liked and shared more than 661,000 times. ### Comparing how Trump statements spread before and after the ban #### Posts quoting or originating each Trump statement, sized by total number of likes and shares Note: There were no Instagram posts quoting the Oct. 2020 Trump statement. Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets. The Global Disinformation Index, a nonpartisan nonprofit that studies disinformation, examined the political leanings of the top accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s statements online after he was barred from Facebook and Twitter. The group classified hundreds of accounts as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, relying on standards that it established through its [work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media](https://disinformationindex.org/the-index/). One thing that became immediately clear: Mr. Trump’s most ardent supporters continue to spread his message — doing the work that he had been unable to do himself. The top sharers of the March post included the right-wing publication Breitbart News (159,500 likes and shares), a Facebook page called “President Donald Trump Fan Club” (48,200 likes), Fox News (42,000 likes), and Jenna Ellis (36,700 likes), a lawyer who made regular television appearances as Mr. Trump’s proxy to trumpet his debunked claims of a rigged election. But when Mr. Trump criticizes conservatives, his remarks sometimes get picked up by both the left and right. On Feb. 16, for instance, [Mr. Trump derided Senator Mitch McConnell](https://www.donaldjtrump.com/news/statement-by-donald-j-trump-45th-president-of-the-united-states-of-america), the minority leader, because of Mr. McConnell’s unwillingness to back Mr. Trump’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election. ### Posts quoting Trump’s Feb. 16 statement #### Sized by total number of likes and shares Note: Only includes Twitter posts that had at least 10 retweets and only the top 100 Facebook posts in total likes and shares. The top sharers on the right, according to the Global Disinformation Index analysis, included “Fox & Friends,” the cable news show, and the right-leaning publication Washington Examiner. On the left, the top sharers included the popular Facebook page Stand With Mueller and the CNN journalist Jim Acosta. Many on the right shared the post while agreeing with it, while partisan pages on the left made fun of the intraparty fight. In total, the statement was shared and liked more than 345,000 times on Facebook and Twitter. One topic from Mr. Trump that has not spread far: claims of widespread election fraud. The Times analysis looked at the 10 most popular posts with election misinformation — judged by likes and shares — from Mr. Trump before the social media bans, and compared them with his 10 most popular written statements containing election misinformation after the ban. All the posts included falsehoods about the election -- that the process had been “rigged,” for instance, or that there had been extensive voter fraud. Before the ban, Mr. Trump’s posts garnered 22.1 million likes and shares; after the ban, his posts earned 1.3 million likes and shares across Twitter and Facebook. Disinformation researchers say the difference points to the enormous power the social media companies have in curbing political misinformation, if they choose to wield it. Facebook and Twitter curb the spread of false statements about the November election, though Twitter has loosened its enforcement since March to dedicate more resources to fact-checking in other parts of the world. “As the Trump case shows, deplatforming doesn’t ‘solve’ disinformation, but it does disrupt harmful networks and blunt the influence of harmful individuals,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies disinformation. Mr. Trump’s statements that got the most engagement after his ban included topics like his commentary on the culture wars (as when he [urged his followers to boycott baseball](https://www.instagram.com/p/CNL5ITjA6kC/)), praise for particular individuals (like for the [radio host Rush Limbaugh](https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1362122520036585473), who recently died) and attacks on President Biden’s policies on issues like the [border crisis](https://twitter.com/JennaEllisEsq/status/1373763865058680833) and [taxes](https://twitter.com/RSBNetwork/status/1377316916453380098). Now that Mr. Trump has lost both the Oval Office and his Twitter account, he has become a kind of digital leader-in-exile, Mr. Brooking said. Mr. Trump’s supporters can refer to his statements to buttress their arguments, Mr. Brooking said, “but he’s not directly driving the agenda in the way he once was.” Methodology This data includes statements made by former President Donald J. Trump between Sept. 1, 2020, and May 5, 2021. Statements include social media posts from Mr. Trump’s accounts and other news releases in his own words, but they do not include social media posts of article headlines or posts reshared from other accounts. To find posts on Facebook and Instagram quoting these statements, we used CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social media analytics tool. We searched for posts that contained exact quotes of the first eight words or complete sentences from each statement in the post — either in text or in images. To measure how much Mr. Trump’s words were engaged with, we selected the posts on Facebook and Instagram with the most likes and shares for each Trump statement, up to 100 for each platform (in most cases, there were fewer than 100 such posts). On Twitter, we selected all posts that had at least 10 retweets. We then added up the total likes and shares received by these posts to determine a proxy for the total amount of interaction for each Trump statement. Mr. Trump’s own posts are included in these tallies. The Global Disinformation Index classified 880 social media accounts sharing Mr. Trump’s words after his ban on Jan. 8 as either left- or right-leaning, or a mix of the two, using standards that it established through its work on disinformation risk ratings for news sites and other online media. The index was able to classify the social media accounts that corresponded to 97 percent of all interaction data with Mr. Trump’s statements post-ban. The remaining 3 percent all had a small number of interactions
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