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When will Twitter treat Biden like Trump?

With the conclusion of the disastrously-executed Afghanistan withdrawal, the attention of Joe Biden and his loyal media apparatchiks has turned to dealing with the ordeal’s political damage. The last few weeks have seen Biden lose significant support, most notably among independent voters, and Republicans are already incorporating the Afghan debacle into their pre-2022 midterm messaging. Biden’s response to all this is to provide more evidence that he – contrary to the claims of many American liberals – is just as willing to dissemble and misrepresent as Trump. But there’s one crucial difference: Biden has Silicon Valley on his side.

Twitter famously never missed an opportunity to slap a ‘misleading information’ label on Trump’s tweets or ban users from replying to them – before they decided to censor him by deleting his account entirely. Indeed, the social media giant was so committed

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