Risk of Further Incitement : Twitter Suspends Donald Trump s Account Permanently
It was the first time Twitter has banned a head of state, the company confirmed.
A photo illustration shows the suspended Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump on a smartphone at the White House briefing room in Washington, U.S., January 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Joshua Roberts/Illustration
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Washington/New York: Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has permanently suspended US 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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WASHINGTON The Rev. and Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock shares more than a party with President-elect Joe Biden: Both Democrats made faith a central part of their political identity on the campaign trail and their victories are emboldening religious liberals.
Warnock, who leads the Atlanta church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, will become Georgia’s first African American senator after a hard-fought runoff that saw GOP opponent Kelly Loeffler cite his sermons in attack ads that portrayed him as radical.
His self-identification as a ” pro-choice pastor “ angered conservatives, but Warnock’s win in a state that Biden turned blue for the first time since 1992 has religious progressives hopeful that Democrats will keep broadening their outreach to voters of faith.
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Tapping into ‘the GOP’s zeitgeist’
Donald Trump will be out of the White House in less than two weeks, but Trumpism isn’t going anywhere. The question is, how powerful a grip on the Republican Party will it hold after this week’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol?
Pro-Trump rioters stole Nancy Pelosi s and other top lawmakers laptops and iPads, Democrats say Salon 1/8/2021 © Provided by Salon Rioter in Nancy Pelosi Richard Barnett, a supporter of US President Donald Trump sits inside the office of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as he protest inside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 6, 2021. - Demonstrators breeched security and entered the Capitol as Congress debated the a 2020 presidential election Electoral Vote Certification. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Numerous computers and electronic devices were stolen during the pro-Trump Capitol riot on Wednesday, potentially posing a national security risk, according to the Justice Department.
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