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8 Jan, 7 tweets, 5 min read

#BREAKING Twitter permanently suspends Trump account after Capitol riots over 'risk of further incitement of violence'

#UPDATE Twitter said its decision to permanently block Trump's account came after "close review of recent tweets" u.afp.com/UJj9

#BREAKING Trump accuses Twitter of conspiring 'to silence me'

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#UPDATES Using official @POTUS account Trump says Twitter employees had coordinated with “the Democrats and the Radical Left” to remove his account “to silence me -- and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me"

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#BREAKING Twitter blocks Trump effort to tweet using @POTUS

#UPDATES Two days after Trump sent a mob of followers to march on Congress, his presidency is in freefall, with allies walking away, opponents sharpening their teeth and Twitter permanently suspending his account u.afp.com/UJ9M

Twitter' decision to permanently suspend Trump is considered overdue by critics who argue he has gotten away with abuses, but has inflamed members of the far-right who equate fact-checking with stifling free speech u.afp.com/UJ9d

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