Twit er permanently suspends Trump

Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has permanently suspended U. S. President Donald Trump’s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

“After close review of recent Tweets from the @ realdonaldtrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” the company said in a tweet.

On Wednesday, Twitter temporarily blocked Trump’s account, which had more than 88 million followers, following the siege of Capitol Hill by pro-trump protesters, and warned that additional violations by the president’s accounts would result in a permanent suspension.

The White House did not immediately comment.

Hundreds of Twitter employees demanded in a letter Friday that the company’s leaders permanently suspend Trump’s Twitter account because of his actions surrounding the storming of the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, calling the company’s response insufficient.

In an internal letter addressed to chief executive Jack Dorsey and his top executives viewed by The Washington Post, roughly 350 Twitter employees asked for a clear account of the company’s decision- making process regarding the president’s tweets the day that a pro-trump mob breached the Capitol.

“Despite our efforts to serve the public conversation, as Trump’s megaphone, we helped fuel the deadly events of January 6th,” the employees wrote. “We request an investigation into how our public policy decisions led to the amplification of serious anti- democratic threats. We must learn from our mistakes in order to avoid causing future harm.”

“We play an unprecedented role in civil society and the world’s eyes are upon us. Our decisions this week will cement our place in history, for better or worse,” the added.

Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Friday suspended the Parler social networking app from its Play Store until the app adds “robust” content moderation while Apple Inc gave the service 24 hours to submit a detailed moderation plan.

Parler is a social network to which many supporters of Trump have migrated after being banned from services including Twitter.

In a statement, Google cited continued posts in the Parler app that seek “to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.”

Google said, “For us to distribute an app through Google Play, we do require that apps implement robust moderation for egregious content. In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app’s listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.”

In a letter from Apple’s App Store review team to Parler seen by Reuters, Apple cited instances of participants using the service to make plans to descend on Washington, D. C., with weapons after a mob stormed the U. S. Capitol building on Wednesday.

“Content that threatens the well-being of others or is intended to incite violence or other lawless acts has never been acceptable on the App Store,” Apple said in the letter.

Apple gave Parler 24 hours to “remove all objectionable content from your app ... ” The company also demanded that Parler submit a written plan “to moderate and filter this content” from the app.