speaks to the press in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the
White House on November 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. U.S.
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Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday temporarily
suspended President Donald Trump’s channel and removed a video for
violating its policy against inciting violence, joining other
social media platforms in banning his accounts after last week’s
Capitol riot.
Trump’s access to the social media platforms he has used as a
megaphone during his presidency has been largely cut off since a
violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington DC
last week.
Operators say the embittered leader could use his accounts to
foment more unrest in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s
inauguration.
“In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence,
we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for
violating our policies,” YouTube said in a statement.
The channel is now “temporarily prevented from uploading new
content for a ‘minimum’ of 7 days,” the statement read.
The video-sharing platform also said it will be “indefinitely
disabling comments” on Trump’s channel because of safety
concerns.
Facebook last week suspended Trump’s Facebook and Instagram
accounts following the violent invasion of the US Capitol, which
temporarily disrupted the certification of Biden’s election
victory.
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In announcing the suspension last week, Facebook chief Mark
Zuckerberg said Trump used the platform to incite violent and was
concerned he would continue to do so.
Twitter went a step further by deleting Trump’s account,
depriving him of his favorite platform. It was already marking his
tweets disputing the election outcome with warnings.
The company also deleted more than 70,000 accounts linked to the
bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims, without any
evidence, that Trump is waging a secret war against a global cabal
of satanist liberals.
Trump also was hit with suspensions by services like Snapchat
and Twitch.
The president’s YouTube account has amassed 2.77 million
subscribers.
The home page of the Trump channel featured a month-old video of
Trump casting doubt on the voting process in November’s
presidential election, and had logged some 5.8 million views.
On Tuesday, an activist group called on YouTube to join other
platforms in dumping Trump’s accounts, threatening an advertising
boycott campaign.
AFP
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