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Who is Vijaya Gadde, the Indian-American Woman Who Spearheaded Twitter s Ban on Donald Trump?
Vijaya Gadde led the move to ban Donald Trump from Twitter following Capitol Hill violence | Image credit: ANI/Reuters
Vijaya Gadde is the head of Legal, Policy and Trust & Safety at Twitter and has for nearly a decade shaped the company s policies as a corporate lawyer.
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Outgoing United States President Donald Trump s permanent suspension from the microblogging site Twitter caused a storm on social media with many users boycotting the site. And the woman who spearheaded the move is none other than an Indian-American woman by the name of Vijaya Gadde.
File photo of Donald Trump. | AFP
Outgoing United States President Donald Trump on Thursday conceded defeat to President-Elect Joe Biden and condemned the previous day’s violence at the US Capitol in Washington DC. He called it a “heinous attack” and said he was “outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem”.
“America is and must always be a nation of law and order,” Trump said in a video message on Twitter. “To demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol: you have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those who engage in the acts of violence and destruction: you do not represent our country. And to those who broke the law: you will pay.”