SOUND OF SILENCE
FB & Insta scrub Trump interview
Facebook and Instagram removed an interview with former President Donald Trump by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, simply because it “featured Trump speaking” and the “voice of Donald Trump,” Facebook said in an internal e-mail.
As big tech companies continue their bid to cancel the ex-commander in chief, audio from the podcast “The Right View With Lara Trump,” was yanked from Facebook Tuesday night and reportedly later removed by Instagram.
Lara Trump, who also contributes to Fox News, shared a screenshot of an e-mail sent by a Facebook employee, saying the company would be taking down the interview.
“We are reaching out to let you know that we removed content from Lara Trump’s Facebook page that featured President Trump speaking,” the e-mail she posted states.
“In line with the block we placed on Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, further content posted in the voice of Donald Trump will be removed and result in additional limitations on the accounts,” the e-mail continued.
Lara Trump was outraged, fuming on Instagram, “And just like that, we are one step closer to Orwell’s 1984. Wow.”
Eric Trump also posted a copy of an e-mail he received from a Facebook employee, saying that the guidance applied to all campaign accounts and pages, including Team Trump, other campaign messaging vehicles and former surrogates of the 45th president.
“This is so horrible – what is our country becoming?” Trump’s son wrote on Instagram.
In the interview, the former president blasted social media and news outlets for suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop series published by The Post during Trump’s bid for re-election last fall.
“When they didn’t show any of that during the campaign — they just cut it out, like, canceled I guess, you could call it cancel culture, right — to me that was really the beginning, because it was bad, it’s been bad for a really long time, it’s been fake for a long time,” Trump said.
On Tuesday, Lara Trump had touted the sit-down interview with Trump, saying, “I have quite a surprise for you this evening . . . Guess who’s gonna be in that chair?”
A message seeking comment from Facebook was not immediately returned Wednesday.
The former president and former First Lady Melania Trump launched their official Web site Monday after he was banned from most social media sites in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
Trump at the time said the companies had done him a “favor.” Trump’s senior adviser, Jason Miller, told Fox News Sunday Trump would return to social media in “probably two or three months” with his own platform.