

Dominion Voting Systems sues Trump lawyer for $1.3B in defamation lawsuit over election-rigging claims."Given the renewed potential for violence surrounding this type of behaviour in the coming days, we will permanently suspend accounts that are solely dedicated to sharing QAnon content," Twitter said in an email statement Friday. 6 in the days leading up to a Washington rally for Trump, expressing hope that Biden's victory would be overturned. Loyalists banned amid QAnon purgeĮarlier, the company banned Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn and pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell as part of a purge of QAnon accounts following Wednesday's attack on the Capitol.ĭozens of QAnon social media accounts were hyping up Jan. Twitter said its policy enables world leaders to speak to the public but that these accounts "are not above our rules entirely" and can't use Twitter to incite violence. Capitol and state capitol buildings on Jan. The company said "plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the U.S.

6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so." Twitter said these statements "are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on Jan. Calls to invoke the 25th amendment or to impeach him are intensifying. President Donald Trump has finally said he will peacefully leave office and let Joe Biden become president. "In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action," Twitter said on Friday.ĭuration 4:45 U.S. Five people died, including a Capitol Police officer. Trump posted a video on Twitter calling the mob "very special" people and saying he loved them.

Capitol to try to stop Congress from affirming president-elect Joe Biden's victory. Trump was locked out of his account on his preferred social media platform for 12 hours earlier this week after a violent mob loyal to him stormed the U.S. "After close review of recent Tweets from the account and the context around them - specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter - we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter said in a statement. President Donald Trump's account, the social media company announced Friday, citing the risk of "incitement of violence."
