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Update (7:45PM CT): After being permanently suspended from his personal Twitter account on Friday evening, President Trump used his official government account, @POTUS, to deliver a message — which was subsequently removed by Twitter within minutes.
Here was the president’s message, according to screenshots:
“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great
“…patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long. I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we …”
“…also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely…
“…STAY TUNED!”
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Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of US President Donald Trump Friday, following a chaotic protest at the US Capitol earlier this week.
On Friday, Twitter released a statement claiming they were preventing @realDonaldTrump from making a “further incitement of violence.”
Trump Is Now Permanently Banned On Twitter
“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company wrote in a statement Friday afternoon.
The ban comes on the heels of a 12-hour suspension of the president’s Twitter account earlier this week after the company claimed he was “inciting violence,” despite him urging protesters for calm and asking them to go home amid the deadly siege on the US Capitol.
The loss of the Twitter platform is especially detrimental to the president as it was his main vehicle of communication to his over 80 million followers.
Twitter is merely the latest social media platform to restrict the president’s use after Facebook and Instagram banned him earlier this week.
The permanent ban also follows a message from former First Lady Michelle Obama to Big Tech companies Thursday encouraging them to take Trump off their platforms indefinitely.
“Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior – and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection,” Obama said in a statement.
On Friday, Twitter additionally banned the accounts of former Trump National Security adviser Michael Flynn and pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, claiming “The accounts have been suspended in line with our policy on Coordinated Harmful Activity,” according to NBC News.
Other companies that have banned the president this week include: Shopify (which shut down the shop.donaldjtrump.com store), Snapchat and Twitch.
Disclose.tv reports President Trump has joined Twitter’s free-speech alternative Parler, according to Sean Hannity.
JUST IN – President Trump has just joined Parler, according to Sean Hannity.
— Disclose.tv
(@disclosetv) January 8, 2021
More on this as it develops…
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