In response to the 2021 Capitol insurrection (Links to an external site.), social media companies like Twitter and Facebook took a substantial step to take down former President Trump's accounts (Check this news article, for example: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-facebook-twitter-decided-take-down-trump-s-accounts-n1254317 (Links to an external site.))

What implications would these decisions have for political audience researchers who want to use Twitter or Facebook as social data on political topics?  Is there a problem of "drifting" that the textbook discusses? How so?

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