Washington: Twitter has announced that it has permanently suspended the account of the incumbent President Donald Trump due to the “risk of further violence and incitement”. Three days earlier, Trump’s supporters entered the Capitol building and committed violence in which five people died. The unprecedented move by the California-based social media company came after Trump’s tweet that he would not attend the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected US President Joe Biden on January 20.
Twitter said in a statement on Friday, “After an in-depth review of a recent tweet from Donald Trump’s account and especially given the context of his interpretation on and off Twitter, we have further violence The account has been permanently banned due to the risk of At the time of permanent suspension, Trump had 8.87 crore followers and was following 51 people.
At the same time, Donald Trump has been indefinitely banned from Facebook and Instagram (Instagram). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has written a post informing him of taking action against Trump.
