A photo illustration shows the suspended Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump on a smartphone and a lit window in the White House residence in Washington, US on January 8, 2021. - Reuters
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Jan 9 (Reuters): Twitter Inc said late on Friday (Jan 8) that it has permanently suspended U.S. President Donald Trump's account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday.
The suspension of Trump's account, which had more than 88 million followers, silences his primary megaphone days before the end of his term and follows years of debate about how social media companies should moderate the accounts of powerful global leaders.
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