Following Facebook, social media application Twitter has permanently suspended the account of American President Donald Trump.
Twitter took this decision after a series of tweets from the account of President Trump that came out on Friday. The social media application feared that Trump tweets might further incite violence leading them to permanently suspend his account
“After a close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account,” Twitter said in a blog post explaining its decision, “we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
“In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action. Our public interest framework exists to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly. It is built on a principle that the people have a right to hold power to account in the open,” said Twitter in a detailed statement.
An extraordinary statement — read till the end.
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/xHRunQEQtV
— Salman Shaikh (@Salman_Shaikh1) January 9, 2021
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“However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules entirely and cannot use Twitter to incite violence, among other things. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.
The below is a comprehensive analysis of our policy enforcement approach in this case,” the statement read further.
Earlier, this week Twitter and other social media platforms had temporarily suspended the account of the President following a violent attack on the Capitol Hill building in Washington DC by the supporters of Trump.
Twitter and Facebook had suspended Donald Trump on Wednesday over posts accused of inflaming violence in the US Capitol, as social media scrambled to respond to mayhem by supporters buying into his baseless attacks on the integrity of the election.
The unprecedented sanctions came after the president took to social media to repeat his numerous false claims about fraud and other impropriety in the election he lost to Joe Biden.
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“This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump’s video,” said Facebook vice president of integrity Guy Rosen.
“We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.”