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Trump announced that he plans to have his own platform to transmit his messages Several social networks deactivated Trump’s accounts. Photo: Pexels
By: EFE 12 from January 2021
WASHINGTON – Outgoing President Donald Trump on Friday condemned Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend his account on the social network and said he is considering creating his own platform to spread his messages without filters.
“They will not silence us!”, Exclaimed Trump in a statement distributed by the White House after Twitter announced that it had permanently deprived him of his personal account on the social network, @realDonaldTrump.
” I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with several other sites, and we will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building our own platform in the near future ”, he added.
The president The outgoing said that Twitter “has gone further and further in prohibiting freedom of expression,” and accused them of having “coordinated with Democrats and the radical left” to delete his account.
“They have silenced me and YOU, the 75 millions of great patriots who voted for me, ”said Trump, who also complained about the protections enjoyed by Twitter and other social networks, which exempt them from legal consequences for what third parties publish on their websites.
Twitter’s move deprives Trump of his main megaphone, an account with which he has broadcast more than 55, messages for more than eleven years and that had 89 million followers.
The social network temporarily suspended Trump’s account this Wednesday for 12 hours, after what The president justified in a tweet the assault on the Capitol by his sympathizers, which resulted in five deaths, at least thirteen police officers injured and all kinds of damage to the Legislative headquarters.
Twitter later returned the account to him with the warning that “any further violation of Twitter rules would result ”in a permanent suspension, and this Friday, after analyzing Trump’s last two tweets, he decided to take that ext extraordinary measure.
“Following a careful review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the surrounding context, we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement to violence, “said Twitter in a statement published on its official blog.
The social network explained that Trump’s tweets, in which he defended his voters and announced that he would not attend the 55 from January to the inauguration of Joe Biden, were being interpreted on social networks as “a reversal of your previous commitment” with an “orderly transition.”
In addition, his messages “can serve as encouragement to those who may be considering violent acts (by making it clear) that the investiture would be a ‘safe’ objective, because he will not attend,” he added Twitter.
Twitter is the technology’s most definitive measure against Trump’s speech after the assault on the Capitol, but not the only one: both Facebook and Instagram blocked the president’s access to his account at least until the handover of power is completed on 20 January, and Twitch and Snapchat have deactivated your profile indefinitely.
Many Trump followers spread their messages less and less on Twitter and more on a recently created alternative social network, called Parler, but that platform has also begun to suffer consequences after the attack on the Capitol: this Friday, Google removed its application from its On-line shop.
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