Twitter bids farewell to Donald Trump, bans him permanently for glorifying violence

After Facebook and Instagram, Twitter has also banned the outgoing US President Donald Trump permanently.

The microblogging site has held that his two recent tweets glorified violence and violated Twitter Rules.

Post violent protest at Capitol Hills, Twitter had initially restricted him from using his handle for 12 hours. It had warned that additional violations of Twitter Rules would result in a permanent ban.

However, Trump posted two tweets on January 8, which according to Twitter, have “the risk of further incitement of violence.”

In the first tweet, Trump had posted, “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

Shortly thereafter, he tweeted, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

Twitter says that it assessed the two Tweets referenced above under its “Glorification of Violence policy”.

The policy aims to “prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts and determined that they were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

Twitter has provided five analysis that how the tweets might incite violence.

“President Trump’s statement that he will not be attending the Inauguration is being received by a number of his supporters as further confirmation that the election was not legitimate and is seen as him disavowing his previous claim made via two Tweets (1, 2) by his Deputy Chief of Staff, Dan Scavino, that there would be an “orderly transition” on January 20th,” Twitter said in its first analysis.

“As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so,” it concluded.