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Wikipedia founder slams Facebook, Twitter for not silencing Donald Trump sooner

Updated: January 15, 2021 at 6:58 pm EST  See Comments

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January 15, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – While internet platforms embark on an unprecedented push to censor President Donald Trump and his supporters, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales suggests that Big Tech should have been more censorious to the president earlier.

Claiming that blame for last week’s Capitol Hill riot rests “100 percent at the feet of Donald Trump,” Wales told Agence France-Presse in a new interview that Big Tech “did a poor job of dealing with him for a very, very long time. He was clearly spreading disinformation, he was clearly being abusive to people.”

“They (social media platforms) have a business model that says, ‘We need as many eyeballs as possible, we need as many page views as possible,’” Wales adds. “Now it’s also damaging for their brand. So they have to deal with that. But I think they’re going to struggle.”

Dozens of protesters broke into the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6 after the “March to Save America” rally where the president said supporters would march “over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” where “we’re

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