New White House digital staffer cheered social media ban on Trump: 'What took them so long?'

FIRST ON FOX: A newly hired White House digital staffer celebrated social media companies "finally, mercifully" banning President Trump on their platforms and asked "What took them so long?" in a 2021 blog post days before President Biden took office.

Andy Volosky, who posted a picture on social media Monday in front of the White House with the caption "Started the new gig today," joined the White House's Office of Digital Strategy as the "deputy director of platforms," according to his Linkedin profile.

In Volosky's blog post, published on the website of a previous employer, he called the action from social media companies to ban Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots "welcome steps to limiting anyone’s ability to incite real-world violence."

In a subsection of his article, titled "A New, and Hopefully Welcome, Standard," Volosky warned that "Twitter still allows the accounts of various world leaders, governments, and spokespeople, who use Twitter for what one can only describe as propaganda as cover for autocracy, to continue to use their platform.

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"While these speeches’ consequences are far from most of the world’s eyes, and certainly from those of most Americans, the effects are real all the same," he continued.

He went on to say that Democrats have "long advocated for regulating the [social media] platforms" and emphasized how active social media users like himself and others can "keep the platforms honest."

"As social professionals, this is initially scary; we know these platforms inside and out, and unknown regulations affecting our day to day work aren’t exactly something we list on our to-do," Volosky added. "But with the