Twitter and Facebook both announced Wednesday evening that they are temporarily suspending President Trump’s accounts after his posts about the mob that overran the Capitol violated platform guidelines.
Twitter is suspending the president’s account for 12 hours. Though the platform has added previously added labels to Trump’s tweets, this marks the first time the social media giant has taken the step of locking the president out of his account.
If Trump does not delete two tweets to which the company objected, the account will remain locked. Continue reading.