Twitter bans Trump PERMANENTLY: President's account is taken down for good because of the 'risk of further incitement of violence' after he praised Capitol rioters.

The Twitter account of President Donald Trump has been permanantly deleted, the company accounced in a blog post on Friday
The social media giant said it was due to the risk that the account would be used for 'further incitement to violence'
The account had 88.7million followers.

The social media giant said in a blog post that it moved to take away the president's account due to risk of 'further incitement to violence' after his supporters rioted through the U.S. Captiol on Wednesday.

'After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,' the company said in a blog post.

The account had 88.7million followers, which is nearly half of the company's total base of monetizable daily active users.

Donald Trump Jr. immediately spoke out about the ban, taking to his own Twitter account to claim that 'free-speech no longer exists in America'.

'We are living Orwell’s 1984,' he fumed. 'It died with big tech and what’s left is only there for a chosen few. This is absolute insanity".


Facebook had already banned the president's account 'at least' until his term is over on January 20.

Twitter said it made the decision after deeming that two Trump tweets from Friday were in breaching of its Glorification of Violence policy.

The first tweet read: 'The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future.

'They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!'

In the second called out by Twitter, the president wrote that he would not be attending Joe Biden's inauguration.

Twitter claimed that the tweets had to be 'read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks'.
Twitter concluded in the blog post that Trump stating he would not attend the inauguration is him indictating it 'would be a “safe” target' for his loyalists to attack.
The company said that Trump was guilty of the glorification of violence by calling Wednesday's rioters 'American patriots' in the first tweet.


It claimed that the tweet could be interpreted as a sign that Trump agreed that there should be no 'orderly transition' as they warned of information is already circling on the social media platform about 'a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17'.

It comes after hundreds of Twitter employees signed a letter to CEO Jack Dorsey asking for the account to be removed as Trump contineud to praise the Capitol rioters.


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'Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump's megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th,' the employees wrote.


On Friday evening as the Twitter announcement was made, social media app Parler crashed as it appeared that Donald Trump's followers fled to the more conservative-leaning platform.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128103/Twitter-PERMANENTLY-bans-President-Trump.html

They put America first. Can Seun put Nigeria first and ban all the IPOB miscreants on this forum

Am not surprised with his reaction, trump is a typical business man, in business all some are concern about is winning, bkos when you win naturally money follows and you shame losers, now he lost the election and you want him to celebrate with Biden?

He never taught he could lose, hence the shock, he is still recovering. Lols, a big lesson for those in the political space. Until the chips are down don't be too sure.

Free speech should always be allowed. Posting false news or information should attract forum penalties though.

OyigboUpdate:
They put America first. Can Seun put Nigeria first and ban all the IPOB miscreants on this forum