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Alexandra Petri: 11 minutes in heaven: When Trump disappeared from Twitter

Suddenly, the news seemed realer. Everyone ran to the newspapers and marveled at all the actual facts that they contained.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., center, speaks next to a poster depicting a retweet from President Donald Trump that Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said was a retweet from an account that spreads factually incorrect information as Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, Twitter's Acting General Counsel Sean Edgett, and Google's Law Enforcement and Information Security Director Richard Salgado, testify during a Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct.