“As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy,” a Twitter announcement reads.
“This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked,” the statement proceeds.
“Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.”
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Facebook and the Facebook-owned Instagram later followed suit in temporarily locking Trump out of his accounts.
Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube have all removed a video of the president calling on protesters to go home. “You have to go home now. We have to have peace. We have to have law and order, we have to respect our great people in law and order,” Trump said in the removed video. Why would they remove a post of him denouncing violence and calling for peace? What do they hold against Trump?
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Facebook was first to remove the video, which was up for just a few hours on late Wednesday afternoon.
A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to news outlets, “The violent protests in the Capitol today are a disgrace. We prohibit incitement and calls for violence on our platform. We are actively reviewing and removing any content that breaks these rules.”
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Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, said in a statement, “This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump’s video. We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.”
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Trump had not requested violence in his speech.
Prior to the removal of the video, Facebook flagged the president’s video that connected to its “Voting information center,” which shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as the winner of the November 2020 election. The Facebook label at the time read: “The US has laws, procedures, and established institutions to ensure the integrity of our elections. Get Accurate Election Info.”
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Twitter removed the same video from its platform within an hour of Facebook’s video removal, substituting the post with the message, “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules,” and linked to the platform’s “enforcement options” page.
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