Twitter Under Pressure to BAN the President of the United States

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Twitter under pressure to ban President Donald J. Trump from the platform

Twitter has come under increasing pressure from liberal groups to ban President Donald Trump’s account from the platform.

Democrats and liberals don’t want a sitting President of the United States to have a voice online. The news comes as votes continue to be counted in the 2020 presidential election.

The groups sent a joint letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey calling for Trump’s account to be suspended over “repeated violations” of the platform’s Civic Integrity Policy. 

“We fear that, in the absence of action by Twitter, the President may be successful in his goal of delegitimizing the integrity of our democratic processes for many, and not just Twitter users but other voters and members of the public, sowing uncertainty about the voting and elections process, and potentially inciting violence against civil servants or others,” Common Cause president Karen Hobert Flynn and Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law executive director Kirsten Clarke wrote in the letter.

Democratic Reps. David Cicilline and Gerry Connolly have also joined the call to remove POTUS from Twitter.

Thehill.com reports: As of Thursday afternoon, Twitter has hidden eight Tweets posted by Trump since Election Day behind a label that warns “some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is doubted and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.” Twitter has also limited the spread of such tweets. 

Trump’s post-Election Day tweets are not the first to be flagged by the social media giant, as Flynn and Clarke write in the letter. The platform has labeled misleading or false claims the president has tweeted about the coronavirus as well as mail-in ballots in recent months. 

“If Twitter’s rules are to have any meaning, they must be enforced, and we would expect any other Twitter users who repeatedly and deliberately violated Twitter’s terms of service in this manner would also have their account locked,” they wrote. 

“President Trump’s continued use of Twitter’s platform to spread disinformation may incite the public in ways that could prove harmful to public safety, if it has not done so already,” they added. 

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed in a statement the company received the letter Thursday and said “we intend to respond.”

Their letter comes after several Democratic lawmakers issued similar calls for Twitter to suspend Trump’s account.

“Suspend his account, @Twitter. This is pure disinformation. Valid votes are being counted. This is America, not Russia,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) tweeted Wednesday in response to one of Trump’s labeled tweets about the election. 

Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), the chairman of the House antitrust subcommittee, also called for Twitter to suspend Trump’s account “for “posting lies and misinformation at a breathtaking clip.”

“It is a threat to our democracy and should be suspended until all the votes are counted,” Cicilline said, according to Politico

As several battleground states are still counting ballots, Trump and his team have been making statements on Twitter spreading misinformation and in some cases prematurely claiming victory.

The platform labeled posts Wednesday from Eric Trump, one of the president’s two adult sons, claiming “We have won Pennsylvania!” around 3:30 p.m. EST. At that time, more than one million mail-in ballots were still uncounted. Ballots in the key battleground state still remain uncounted as of Thursday afternoon. 

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted around the same time claiming “VICTORY” for the president in the state, and her post received the same label. 

A spokesperson for the Trump campaign was not immediately available for comment.

2 Comments

  1. Go ahead try it! The penalty for treason and pedophilia is death… google is complicit in horrific crimes. Just about time to sanitize!!!

  2. And in tbe end times the stench of corruption shall reach all the way to heaven The msm stink so bad I cant even watch tv or go online really The evil is everywhere ,laughing gloating like they just won lotto Now they can start thieving again and enslaving tbe people with socialist day dreams when in reality they just want the masses the 6 billion basically ,to be their servants ,grateful for a crumb off their table .Food glorious Food Bank and Community cabbage patches as their rewards All that evil

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