Twitter deletes new Trump tweets on @POTUS, suspends campaign account
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[January 09, 2021]
(Reuters) - Twitter Inc on Friday
deleted new tweets posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on official
government account @POTUS and suspended the account of his presidential
campaign, after booting his personal account off the platform
permanently.
Trump tweeted "We will not be SILENCED!" from the @POTUS government
account, with 33.4 million followers. Twitter had permanently suspended
the president's go-to megaphone, his @realDonaldTrump personal account,
hours earlier.
The company said accounts used by Trump to try to get around the ban
could face permanent suspension as well under its "ban evasion"
policies.
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"Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH," Trump wrote in the now-deleted
tweets, adding that he is considering building his own social media
platform in the near future.
Twitter shut down his @TeamTrump campaign account shortly after it sent
out a tweet with a "statement from President Trump" accusing Twitter of
"banning free speech" and coordinating with "the Democrats and the
Radical Left" to silence him.
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A photo illustration shows the suspended Twitter account of U.S.
President Donald Trump on a smartphone at the White House briefing
room in Washington, U.S., January 8, 2021. REUTERS/Joshua
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The account shortly before that had pointed its 2.3 million
followers to its account on Parler, which is popular with
conservatives for its hands-off approach to content moderation.
Alphabet Inc's Google suspended Parler on Friday, citing posts
inciting violence, while Apple Inc gave the service 24 hours to
submit a detailed moderation plan.
(Reporting by David Shepardson and Katie Paul; Editing by Leslie
Adler and Sonya Hepinstall)
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