Twitter permanently suspends Donald Trump's account "due to the risk of further incitement to violence" | The State
Trump had returned to the platform on Thursday afternoon after a temporary suspension.
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Twitter announced that it permanently suspended the president’s account Donald trump during the night of this Friday.
After a detailed review of the recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context surrounding them, specifically how they are being received and interpreted inside and outside Twitter, we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement to violenceSays the statement in the Blog of the company.
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https: //t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
– Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
Also the accounts of Michael flynn, former national security and Sidney Powell, Trump’s attorney, were permanently suspended.
The decision was made by the social network Twitter after the violent events during the capture of the Capitol on Wednesday, January 6 when Trump He spoke with his supporters and asked them to go to the seat of the legislative branch at the time that Congress was voting to confirm the results of the presidential election. Trump showed his support for the protesters through his account of Twitter and on the platform Facebook.
This Thursday Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, reported that he banned the account of the US president indefinitely because “it disturbed the population and the rest of the world” due to the risk that his statements could generate more violence, while Twitter allowed Trump to return to the social network after a temporary suspension.
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