Why was Donald Trump evicted from many platforms including Twitter, know what is the whole matter!
Twitter vs Trump: In such a situation, the question arises that why the world's most powerful leader was evicted from many social media platforms including Twitter. What were the serious allegations against Trump. Which platforms had banned Trump.
Twitter has finally acquitted former US President Donald Trump of the allegations leveled against him. Now crores of Trump's supporters will be able to see and hear him on Twitter. In such a situation, the question arises that why the world's most powerful leader was evicted from many social media platforms including Twitter. What were the serious allegations against Trump. Which platforms had banned Trump. In this episode, we will tell you how many times Twitter evicted him from its site, how many times he was issued a warning.
What was Trump's dispute with Twitter
1- On January 9, 2021, Donald Trump's account was suspended forever. Trump was warned earlier. Twitter's argument was that the decision has been taken in view of the apprehension of promoting such violence. Earlier his account was locked for 12 hours. Twitter had strongly objected to Trump's post, in which he called violent supporters patriots. After this statement, there was a lot of increase in violence in America. Hundreds of Trump supporters had entered the Congress Capitol Building. At that time, the process of formally confirming the victory of newly elected President Joe Biden was going on in America.
2- Earlier in the year 2020, Twitter had taken action against former US President Donald Trump. At that time, Twitter had linked his tweet to Fact Check. At that time, Trump had 88 million followers on Twitter. During the presidential
election in America, Trump was claiming rigging in the postal ballot. The Black Lives Matter movement was going on in America. At that time, Trump had threatened to deploy the army and said that the looters would be shot. After this statement of his, the politics in America got hot.
3- During that time many US MPs had demanded the removal of Trump from Twitter. Not only this, Michelle Obama also demanded the removal of Trump from Twitter. At that time, Twitter kept every tweet of Trump on fact check. Not only this, Twitter had forever banned former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and Attorney Sidney Powell, two loyalists of Donald Trump. Through a letter, 350 Twitter employees asked the company's CEO Jack Dorsey to ban Trump's account over capital violence.
Twitter explained the reason for the ban
1- Twitter wrote on its blog post that dangerous things have happened in America this week. Twitter had clearly told Trump that action would be taken if our rules were violated. Twitter had given the main reason for suspension from its platform due to spreading misinformation on Trump, giving fake news, posts inciting violence. Twitter had said that we have a public interest framework. It provides a platform to hear directly from world leaders and elected officials.
2- Twitter said that our principle is that people have the right to keep their account open, but the account cannot go beyond the rules. Twitter made it clear that this platform cannot be used to spread violence. However, this platform had a lot of advantage due to the presence of Trump on Twitter. Twitter has been a platform to interact with the most powerful man in the world. Twitter took this decision 48 hours after the violence on the Capitol Building. At that time it was not easy for Twitter to take this decision.
Many social platforms removed Trump from their sites
Not only Twitter, other famous social media platforms of the world also evicted Trump from their platforms. Popular gaming platform Twitch banned Trump's channel indefinitely. Actually, Trump used to broadcast his rallies through this channel. Apart from this, e-commerce company Shopify also removed all the election campaigns of Donald Trump from its store. Explain that Shopify is an online store platform. It is a Canadian company. Banning Trump, the company claimed that it contained material that incited violence. In addition, Reddit also banned the Donald Trump forum.