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Twitter and Facebook have temporarily suspended the accounts of US President Donald Trump, as tech giants scrambled to counter his unfounded claims about the presidential election, amid riots in Washington D.C.
Twitter withheld Trump’s three tweets and requested that they be deleted “as a result of the continuing and unprecedented violent situation in Washington, D.C” after pro-Trump protesters stormed the Congress building in an attempt to force Congress to block confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Facebook later said it would block the Trump page from posting for 24 hours due to two violations of the site’s policy.
Twitter said that it suspended Trump’s account for 12 hours, and that if the tweets are not deleted, the account will remain closed, which means that the president will not be able to publish tweets from this account. She added in a tweet that any future violations of the rules would lead to the account being suspended permanently.
Facebook and Youtube deleted a video of Trump in which he continued to make unsubstantiated claims that the elections had been rigged, even though he had called on the protesters to leave.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said the video had also been removed from Instagram and that the president’s account would remain suspended for 24 hours.
Facebook and Twitter had put it in place with warnings and took measures initially to slow the spread of the video.
