Twitter and Facebook suspend Donald Trump’s accounts – U.S. election 2020

“Due to the unprecedented and ongoing situation of violence in Washington, we have demanded the deletion of three tweets” from the president’s account, the network reported in a thread on its official security Twitter account.

“This means the @realDonaldTrump account will be blocked for 12 hours after deleting these tweets” and, if queried messages are not deleted, “the account will remain blocked.”

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Twitter did not specify which messages are disputed by the president, who during the day wrote several times on the social network, confirming his opinion that he was the victim of electoral fraud, attributing to this alleged reason the riots on Wednesday afternoon in Washington. and questioning Vice President Mike Pence for acknowledging the triumph of President-elect Joe Biden.

“These are the things and events that occur when a sacred and overwhelming election victory is so brutally and unceremoniously stripped of the great patriots who have been treated badly and unfairly for so long,” Trump wrote as the riots continued. . that caused the death of a person.

Soon after, Facebook announced a similar move, but for 24 hours.

“We have analyzed two violations of our policy on President Trump’s page, which will result in a 24-hour block, meaning he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time,” the company reported. via your press office’s Twitter account.