Twitter Locks Trump's Account, Facebook and YouTube Remove Video After His Continuing Lies …

Twitter has stepped in to lock President Trump’s account for 12 hours and blocked access to several tweets from Wednesday citing risks of violence, and along with Facebook and YouTube they have removed a video Trump posted from the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.Twitter and CEO Jack Dorsey have suggested in recent months that Trump won’t have a Twitter presence after he’s no longer a head of state, and today’s events may have further solidified that stance. After Trump’s own words incited violence and a riotous breach of the Capitol Building on Wednesday, Twitter has moved to both remove several tweets — along with the Rose Garden video in which he continued to insist the election was “stolen” — as well as at least one other tweet in which he attacked Vice President Trump, and his account has been locked for 12 hours. That means that, temporarily, he can not post any tweets, and these several tweets can’t be retweeted. Still, other tweets from the last 24 hours including this one continue to be wildly amplified and retweeted — which is an argument for shutting his account down completely.As Time reports, Twitter locked the president’s account early Wednesday evening in addition…
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