Social media giants Twitter, Facebook and Instagram locked United States President Donald Trump’s page on their respective platforms.
Instagram confirmed on January 6 that it is suspending Donald Trump’s account for 24 hours. This came shortly after Facebook and Twitter said they were suspending the outgoing US president’s accounts over policy violations following the storming of the US Capitol by his supporters.
“We’ve assessed two policy violations against President Trump’s Page which will result in a 24-hour feature block, meaning he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time,” Facebook said.
“We are locking President Trump’s Instagram account for 24 hours as well,” Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri said in a Twitter post.
We are locking President Trump’s Instagram account for 24 hours as well. https://t.co/HpA79eSbMe
— Adam Mosseri ???? (@mosseri) January 7, 2021
Twitter locked Trump out of his account for 12 hours and said that future violations by Trump could result in a permanent suspension. The company required the removal of three of Trump’s tweets, including a short video in which he urged those supporters to “go home” while also repeating falsehoods about the integrity of the presidential election.
Snapchat spokesperson as confirming that the company had locked Trump’s Snapchat account, making it the fourth major platform to take action against the outgoing president’s social media accounts.