Social Media
The president lost 204,000 of his 53.4 million followers in July, when Twitter started its purge of suspicious accounts.
"You can’t be that racist on Twitter without people calling you out."
Governments should leave the internet alone, but the claim that Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp are an antidote to state-controlled media is looking increasingly thin.
"I just won’t share them anymore."
The ban is ostensibly to stop the spread of misinformation but Facebook and social media have created a space for public conversation in a country with a long history of censoring the press
This wasn’t just a mojito … it was an M&S mojito
"This sort of negativity towards blackness is all around us."
It would be easy to dismiss those spreading racial hatred as fringe actors if some were not rewarded with verified social media accounts, mainstream media appearances, or political normalisation.
Those of us in the UK still reeling from the implications of the success of the Leave campaign will be acutely familiar with the dangers of populist rhetoric driving public opinion.
Tech firms will have responsibilities outlined in a mandatory 'duty of care'.