Communications Major

Democrats are breathing easier. Republicans are crying censorship. For all of the country’s news consumers, a strange quiet has descended after a four-year bombardment of presidential verbiage.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday that the company is blocking US President Donald Trump from its platform “indefinitely.” The ban will be in place for “at least the next two weeks,” the company said.

This is the first time a major platform has banned Trump.

The transition of official White House social media handles is more complicated now than four years ago.