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Published 21:37 21 Mar 2021 GMT
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Donald Trump could return to social media with the creation of his own platform. (Photo: Getty)[/caption]
However, he could return to social media in the near future according to those closest to him.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump advisor Jason Miller said:
"I do think that we're going to see President Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here with his own platform.
"This is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media."
Miller added that Trump's own platform will "completely redefine the game" of social media.
In related news, a March 2020 tweet posted by Donald Trump has been linked to a rise in anti-Asian xenophobia.
Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Trump referred to Covid-19 as the "Chinese / China virus" or the "kung flu" on Twitter.
Academics from the University of California San Francisco set out to examine "the extent to which the phrases, 'COVID-19' and 'Chinese virus' were associated with anti-Asian sentiments".
To make this judgement, they collated tweets from the period March 9th to March 23rd, 2020, broadly corresponding to the week before and after Trump first tweeted the incendiary phrase "Chinese virus".
All in all, nearly 700,000 tweets containing around 1.3 million hashtags were examined. The results were alarming.

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