Donald Trump is launching his own social media platform after being banned by Twitter, Facebook ETC

Donald Trump will soon use “his own platform” to return to social media, an adviser said on Sunday, months after the former president was banned from Twitter for inciting the US Capitol riot.

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Recently he has released short statements which many have likened to his tweets of old. The temporary suspension marked the first time that Twitter, which had been flagging certain posts Trump made containing misinformation in the weeks leading up to the January riot, locked the then-president out of his account. 

Not long after the temporary suspension, Twitter announced it would make the ban permanent, citing the “risk of further incitement of violence” posed by the then-president’s posts. 

Speculation has been rife that Trump might seek to create his own TV network in an attempt to prise viewers from Fox News, which was first to call the crucial state of Arizona for Joe Biden on election night, to Trump’s considerable anger. 

But on Sunday adviser Jason Miller said social media was the immediate target.