Rush Limbaugh and The Platforming of Hate

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I didn’t know much about Rush Limbaugh before February 17, 2021. That day, I popped onto Twitter to see what was trending and discovered his name at the top of the list, alongside the hashtags #rotinhell and #goodriddance. A bit of scrolling revealed that Limbaugh had died earlier that day from stage 4 lung cancer.