US President Donald TrumpTwitter Inc and Facebook Inc on Wednesday temporarily locked the accounts of U.S. President Donald Trump, as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about the U.S. presidential elections amid riots in the capital. Facebook later tweeted it would block Trump’s page from posting for 24 hours due to two policy violations. Twitter locked Trump’s account for 12 hours and said that if the tweets are not removed, the account would remain locked, meaning the president would be unable to tweet from @realDonaldTrump. Trump on Wednesday blamed Vice President Mike Pence for lacking “courage” to pursue those claims in a tweet that Twitter later took down. Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos tweeted: “Twitter and Facebook have to cut him off.”Civil rights groups including The Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change called for social media companies to suspend Trump’s accounts permanently.

Source: Standard Digital January 07, 2021 05:51 UTC