President Trump
GOP leader Donald TrumpHouse tells members to stop spreading riots due to riots, the Antifa DC attorney general says the Trump organization has improperly paid the K bill incurred during the inauguration 70,000 QAnon Twitter accounts suspended as a result of Capitol riot MORE took a turn on social media platforms on Tuesday after the tech giants ’decision last week to ban the president’s accounts for his comments about a crowd of supporters who stormed the Capitol in a deadly riot.
“I think Big Tech is doing something horrible for our country and for our country and I think it will be a catastrophic mistake for them,” Trump told reporters.
He accused the companies of “splitting” and said it is “very, very bad for our country”.
Twitter, which was Trump’s most used social media account, outright banned Trump last week from his platform. The company said Trump’s publications pose “the risk of a new incitement to violence” and noted that the platform had seen plans for new armed action at the U.S. Capitol and Capitol buildings. State that would lead to the president-elect. Joe Biden
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Facebook hasn’t gone as far as Twitter yet. The platform indefinitely banned Trump’s account at least until Biden took office, with the CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg
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Along with Twitter and Facebook, major social media platforms, including Reddit, Snapchat and YouTube, took general measures last week to ban or restrict the president after riots in Washington violated Capitol security by forcing lawmakers, media outlets. communication and staff to be evacuated from the chambers of Congress. to undisclosed locations.
The attacks left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer who suffered head injuries before dying.
Before Twitter and Facebook suspended Trump, they were among the platforms to withdraw the president’s video posted after the riot in which he continued to spread misinformation about election fraud.
It was the strongest action the platforms had taken against the president. Previously, some of Trump’s posts were labeled, but he largely avoided withdrawal and suspensions for violating platform policies because of his position as a public figure.
Trump held a rally shortly before the attack where he urged his supporters to march on the Capitol as he continued to repeat false allegations of widespread electoral fraud that he said contaminated the 2020 presidential election.
The statements have become the basis of a dismissal article against him stating that the president committed high crimes and misdemeanors “deliberately inciting violence against the U.S. government.”
Trump on Tuesday defended his statements to supporters as “totally appropriate.”
“They analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence, and everyone, in the T, thought it was totally appropriate,” Trump told reporters.
While as major social media platforms repress this content, Trump supporters have used marginal trend platforms to post about future demonstrations that experts warn could become violent. Publications have indicated that potentially violent events may take place on January 17 and 20.