{"id":1937806,"date":"2023-05-25T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-explains-why-he-chose-twitter-to-announce-2024-run\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T09:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:22:45","slug":"desantis-explains-why-he-chose-twitter-to-announce-2024-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-explains-why-he-chose-twitter-to-announce-2024-run\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis chose Twitter to announce 2024 run."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-explains-why-he-chose-twitter-to-announce-2024-run%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1937806&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Chooses Twitter for Presidential Candidacy Announcement<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0525\/a7a3628d-cc11-4a78-9c5b-6c6fbed12ded\/audio.mp3?length=2005965&#038;duration=167\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently announced his presidential candidacy on Twitter, citing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/securities-and-exchange-commission-goes-woke-ig-says-it-should-copy-k-12-equity-efforts\/\" title=\"Securities And Exchange Commission Goes Woke, IG Says It Should Copy K-12 Equity Efforts\">data-driven approach<\/a> to dealing with COVID-19 as the reason for his decision. However, the announcement was not without its hiccups.<\/p>\n<h3>Twitter Spaces Discussion Crashes<\/h3>\n<p>The Twitter Spaces discussion hosted by CEO Elon Musk crashed for about 20 minutes, with the platform unable to handle the more than 600,000 listeners tuning in. Musk later attributed the glitches to \u201cscaling issues\u201d tied to his account.<\/p>\n<h3>Free Speech on Social Media<\/h3>\n<p>Despite the technical difficulties, Governor DeSantis praised Twitter as a bastion for free speech, which he believes is crucial, especially during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf we can\u2019t have an honest debate in a free country about issues that affect hundreds of millions of people, like lockdowns, then what good is the first amendment at that point?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are precisely the times when we needed to have debate be robust.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>DeSantis also applauded Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter, stating that the platform is now in the hands of a free speech advocate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe truth was censored repeatedly. And now that Twitter is in the hands of a free speech advocate, [the censorship] would not be able to happen again on this Twitter platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk responded to DeSantis\u2019 comments, assuring him that his platform is \u201cabsolutely committed to free speech and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brexit-trade-deal-published-as-uk-calls-for-end-to-ugly-divisions\/\" title=\"Brexit trade deal published as UK calls for end to \u2018ugly\u2019 divisions\">level playing field<\/a> and just a vigorous debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis cited his data-driven approach to COVID-19 as the reason for announcing his presidential candidacy on Twitter. Despite some challenges with the tech platform, he believes in making decisions based on data rather than following popular opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1843,"featured_media":1937807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4506,8173,4980,9250,4253],"class_list":["post-1937806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-4506","tag-chose","tag-desantis","tag-run","tag-twitter"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1937807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}