Twitter locks Trump’s account as video taken down

As Mr Trump again repeated baseless claims of election fraud in the video statement and several tweets, Twitter suspended his account for 12 hours.

Mr Trump was instructed to remove tweets in violation of “the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies”, or the account would be permanently suspended.

Twitter at first blocked retweets and likes on Mr Trump’s video “due to a risk of violence”, but later removed it along with two other tweets of Mr Trump’s that again made the same claim.

In a statement, Twitter said they had removed the posts “for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy”.

Copies of the video were also removed from YouTube and Facebook.

Facebook’s vice president of integrity, Guy Rosen, tweeted the social media company believed the video “contributes to, rather than diminishes, the risk of ongoing violence”, saying the action was part of “appropriate emergency measures”.