Distinguished Harvard Law School fellow Vivek Wadhwa says he would ‘not be surprised’ if President Trump’s social media accounts were suspended for a week at a time, as ‘further restrictions’ are expected.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attacked Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday night in a tweet that seemed to blame the Facebook foundation for the ensuing violence on the United States Capitol.
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“This is called the domino effect,” Musk wrote alongside a meme that apparently linked Zuckerberg’s Facebook origins to the crowd that broke into the Capitol building to protest the presidential election results.
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The meme that Musk posted depicted a pile of tiles lined up like dominoes. The smallest tile has a caption next to it that says “a website to evaluate women on campus”, which was a reference to FaceMash, the Facebook predecessor that Zuckerberg developed in 2003 to allow people to judge the appearance of his colleagues.
The biggest tile in the meme was tagged with a post by Mark Leibovich, the main national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine.
“The Capitol appears to be under the control of a man in a Viking hat,” read Leibovich’s post.
Musk’s tweet, which has since garnered more than 204,000 likes, was posted hours after Trump supporters went to Washington to protest Congress’s formal approval of Biden’s victory, resulting in dozens of arrests and four deaths.
However, Musk’s comments came even when Twitter took an unprecedented step to temporarily suspend Trump from posting on the platform.
TWITTER, FACEBOOK LOCK TRUMP ACCOUNT FOR BREACH POLICIES, ‘PERMANENT SUSPENSION’ NOTICE
Prior to Wednesday, Trump claimed that there was widespread election fraud to explain his defeat and encouraged his supporters to come to Washington through several social media posts.
Trump spent preparations for the process publicly intimidating Pence, who had a largely ceremonial role, to help in the effort to reject the results.
Twitter, as well as Facebook and Instagram, both Mark Zuckerberg’s companies, suspended him from posting on their platforms after they said he violated his policies.
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After Twitter blocked Trump from his account for 12 hours, Facebook and Instagram followed suit. On Thursday, they both extended the blockade indefinitely, Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his personal Facebook account.
“We assessed two policy violations against President Trump’s page, which will result in a 24-hour resource block, which means that he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time,” tweeted Facebook on Wednesday night .
Representatives from Elon Musk and Facebook did not immediately respond to FOX Business’s request for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.