Sen. Joe Manchin
Joseph (Joe) ManchinGOP senators urging Trump officials not to step down after the chaos of the Capitol Night defense: Capitol overrun by pro-Trump rioters | All DC National Guard activated | 38-year-old soldier dies of COVID-19 Twitter and Facebook slap Trump with temporary suspensions MORE (DW.Va.) on Friday urged Twitter to suspend President Trump
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“The next 12 days are fundamental for the preservation of our democracy. @jack, once again I ask you to suspend the @realDonaldTrump @twitter account in the interest of our national and public security. @TwitterSupport. ”
The next 12 days are critical to the preservation of our democracy. @jack, again, I ask you to suspend the @realDonaldTrump @Twitter account in the interest of our national security and public security. @TwitterSupport
– Senator Joe Manchin (@Sen_JoeManchin) January 8, 2021
Twitter and Facebook temporarily suspended Trump’s reports on Wednesday about posts about the Capitol crowd that the platforms said violated his policies.
One of the posts was a one-minute video in which Trump urged the crowd to go home, but also repeated allegations of unfounded electoral fraud. The second reached a similar tone, but repeated its false claims about its “overwhelming victory”.
The posts were deleted from the Twitter account, and Trump later recovered access to the account. However, Wednesday’s actions were the most drastic taken against Trump’s accounts.
In response to Manchin’s tweet, a Twitter spokesman told The Hill “any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in the permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account. “
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot ZuckerbergHillicon Valley: Facebook extends Trump suspension at least until day of inauguration | Trump deletes tweets that led to Twitter blocking | The federal judiciary was probably compromised as part of the SolarWinds hack. Trump deleted tweets that led to the Twitter block. Facebook extends Trump’s suspension to at least Biden ownership MORE announced Thursday that his suspension will remain at least until the president-elect Joe Biden
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“His decision to use his platform to tolerate, rather than condemn, the actions of his supporters in the Capitol building, rightly upset people in the United States and around the world,” Zuckerberg wrote on facebook. “We believe that the risks of allowing the president to continue using our service during this period are simply too great.”
Snapchat too suspended Trump’s account indefinitely following the riot, and Shopify removed Trump’s official storms from his platform.