Amazon’s Twitch disables Donald Trump account, citing ‘incendiary rhetoric’


Trump’s Twitch account will be disabled at least through the end of his presidential term this month. — Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES: Twitch has joined the widening movement to deplatform Donald Trump from Internet services, following the rioting and violence by a pro-Trump horde on Jan 6 in Washington, D.C.

Trump launched an account on Twitch, the game-centered livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, in the fall of 2019 as part of expanding his reelection campaign messaging.

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