88 million Twitter followers, gone in an instant. Poof. End of an era.
Twitter said that Trump's final two tweets violated its glorification of violence policy: cnn.com/2021/01/08/tec…
It’s important to note that the Twitter ban narrowly addresses “the @realDonaldTrump account” and not Trump, the man.
This seems to suggest there’s nothing preventing him from creating new accounts or tweeting from a US government account like @POTUS or @WhiteHouse.
In the same blog post where they announce the ban, Twitter says it's seen some people making plans for "future armed protests" and "secondary attacks" on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings.
I've asked Twitter whether these have been reported to law enforcement.
@realDonaldTrump@POTUS@WhiteHouse Twitter tells me it will enforce its policies against ban evasions to ensure Trump does not circumvent his personal account's suspension.
Separately:
1. YouTube tells me it has banned Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast channel and one other associated channel, and
2. Google tells me it has dropped Parler from the Google Play Store
I am extremely reminded of this @AdamS remark tonight.
Confirming @BuzzFeedNews' scoop, I've independently obtained a copy of the letter that Amazon sent to Parler announcing plans to boot the company off AWS.
Parler will be deplatformed from AWS at 11:59 pm Pacific time on Sunday for what Amazon told it was repeated examples of violent rhetoric and incitement.
Amazon told Parler that it flagged 98 examples of this type of content and that it will no longer host Parler's website.
Parler’s CEO confirms and says Parler could be off of the internet for up to a week:
And within seconds, they were gone, already restricted under the terms that Twitter had laid out in its earlier statements.
In his now-unavailable tweets from @POTUS, Trump disclosed negotiations with "various other sites" and a forthcoming announcement, as well as hints of "building out our own platform in the near future."
Seems this could be a part of a potential post-WH Trump media empire.
YouTube tells me it is accelerating its enforcement of voter fraud claims, in a move that could lead to a permanent ban of President Trump.
YouTube last month said it would begin removing new videos that make false claims of voter fraud surrounding the 2020 elections, and that it would begin assigning strikes to channels under its three-strike rule after Jan. 20.
Now the platform is moving that up by two weeks.
The company will now be handing out first strikes for those violations immediately, a penalty that involves a one-week restriction on uploading and live-streaming.
NEW: Trump appears to have complied with Twitter’s requirement that he delete three violative tweets in order to restore his account access, meaning he could be up and tweeting again as soon as tomorrow morning.
Earlier this evening, I asked Twitter to clarify its statement announcing a 12-hour lock on Trump's account beginning after he deletes the tweets.
The statement led to confusion because from the average user's perspective, the tweets had already vanished, replaced by a label.
Turns out Twitter had not removed Trump's tweets but simply masked them, meaning they were still technically on Trump's profile. Hence the requirement that he delete the tweets himself. This is the SOP for accounts locked due to violative content, Twitter later told me.
Trump just fired @CISAKrebs on Twitter, one of the top election security officials in the country. Krebs had consistently said that the election was conducted securely.