Twitter allegedly suspending accounts that share Trump blog content
Posted by Catherine Reed / May 7, 2021Following Trump’s rabble-rousing, which led to a group of out-of-control rioters storming the United States Capitol, Twitter suspended Trump’s account for 12-hours and forced him to delete several tweets. Subsequently, Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump, citing rumors circulating of a January 17 armed protest.
Twitter has also banned some 150,000 QAnon supporters following the January 6 riots. At the beginning of the year, Twitter announced that it banned some 70,000 accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory. Twitter has also permanently banned Donald Trump, citing rumors circulating of a January 17 armed protest. Before that, Trump angrily ranted about Twitter (on Twitter, as usual), implying it was a threat to national security and expressing the desire to change the laws in order to shut it down.
Earlier this week, a Facebook-appointed panel has upheld Trump’s prohibition on the platform.Facebook banned Trump from its platform for the rest of his term following the violence at the Capitol. Following Trump’s rabble-rousing, which led to a group of out-of-control rioters storming the United States Capitol, Twitter also suspended Trump’s account for 12-hours and forced him to delete several tweets. Twitter has promised to ban Trump if he continues to incite violence.
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