Social Media giants Youtube, Twitter and Facebook have taken action on President Donald Trump's posts during the riots at the US Capitol - removing a video and, in Twitter and Facebook's case, temporarily suspending his account. "This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video. This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video. Earlier in the day Twitter deployed a new label for Donald Trump's tweets, despite broad calls for the social network to outright ban him from its platform. The platform later began removing some of Trump's tweets and also announced his account had been suspended for 12 hours.

Source: New Zealand Herald January 06, 2021 21:52 UTC