Bill Gates says social-media bans aren’t answer to divisiveness


Gates believes there must be a way to ‘draw the line so we keep the open debate without the corrosive parts’ on social media. — AP

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said social-media silencing such as Twitter Inc’s lifetime ban on former President Donald Trump risk leading to even more divisiveness in the US.

Trump said many things questioning the legitimacy of the 2020 election “that are corrosive”, Gates said on Fox News Sunday. “But the idea that you end up with a lifetime ban – that, it seems like we should discuss.”

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