“The risks of allowing you to continue using our service are too great”
Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Donald Trump’s profiles on his social networks will remain closed “indefinitely and for at least two weeks.” The decision of the CEO of Facebook comes after in the last hours Twitter, Facebook, Instagram y Snapchat have deleted the last post and have locked temporarily to the outgoing president of the United States Donald Trump, in an unprecedented measure decided on Wednesday after the events in Washington, carried out by supporters of the Republican millionaire.
“Your decision to use your platform to approve rather than condemn actions of his supporters in the Capitol Building has rightly disturbed people in the United States and around the world, “Zuckerberg explained in a statement.
Twitter, the platform most used by Trump during his mandate and electoral campaign, has blocked his account for at least 12 hours after deleting his last three posts, alleging “risk of violence” and violation of its civic integrity policy.
“As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, DC, we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted today by serious and repeated violations of our civic integrity policy“declared Twitter.
Various political representatives have been those who requested the blockade to Twitter and Facebook, including the chairman of the United States Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Democratic Congressman Frank Pallone.
In recent months, both Facebook and Twitter have repeatedly limited Trump’s messages without actually blocking him, a fact that Zuckerberg has also spoken about. “We have allowed President Trump to use our platform. We did so because we believe that the public has the right to the widest possible access to political speech, including controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, which implies the use of our platform to incite a violent insurrection against a democratically elected government, “he explained.
America lives a emergency situation after thousands of Trump supporters, who participated in a demonstration in his favor in the US capital, surrounded the Capitol after being incited by the outgoing president, where senators and congressmen were gathered to officialize Biden’s electoral victory.
They stormed the building, breaking windows and access doors. Before the assault, Trump had addressed his followers ruining the Democratic victory again in the elections, with his unfounded accusations of electoral fraud.
Have dead at least four people in the assault, and local authorities have ordered a curfew in Washington.
Snapchat developer Snap Inc has also joined the blockade, as has Facebook. Both this network and YouTube have proceeded to delete a video that, according to Guy Rose, President of Facebook Integrity, “contributes to increasing the risk of ongoing violence”. Alphabet has signaled that it will ban appeals to carry weapons across the country and remove any form of support for the assault.
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