It is not usual for president accounts to be suspended on social networks.
Twitter said Friday that it had permanently suspended President Trump from his service “due to the risk of further incitement to violence,” effectively cutting him off his megaphone Favorite to communicate with Americans and the world.
“We have determined that these tweets violate the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be permanently and immediately suspended from the service, ”said Twitter in a blog post .
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. https://t.co/NrANZJcAfo
– Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 8, 2021
Twitter earlier had warned: “In the context of this week’s horrific events, we made it clear Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules could result in this same course of action. ”
The suspension announced by Twitter occurs one day after a Trump’s Twitter account was suspended for 12 hours , after the assault on the Capitol made on Wednesday by his followers, which caused the interruption of the session of the Congress that ratified the result of the elections issued by the Electoral Colleges, in favor of Joe Biden .
Facebook also suspended Donald Trump’s account for the remainder of his term, and several other digital platforms limited Trump from their services.