The Trump channel’s homepage featured a month-long video of Trump casting doubt on the voting process.
Google-owned YouTube blocked Donald Trump’s channel and posted a video for violating his anti-incitement policy against violence – the latest sanction imposed by the Giants. social media against US president.
Online platforms and social media companies are separating themselves from, and taking action from, those who incited or were involved in last week’s deadly violence on U.S. Capitol by supporters the president.
“Despite concerns about the continuing potential for violence, we have removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump’s channel in violation of our policies,” YouTube said in a statement.
The channel is now “temporarily banned from uploading new content for at least 7 days,” he said.
The video-sharing platform also said it will “remove non-stop comments” on the Trump channel due to safety concerns.
On the Trump channel’s homepage was a month-long video of Trump casting doubt on the voting election process that recorded some 5.8 million views. The free channel itself has 2.77 million people.
Trump supporters blocked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, trying to block a Congressional testimony of President Joe Biden’s election election.
Trump, who has challenged the legitimacy of Biden’s influence without releasing evidence, initially praised his supporters but later admitted the violence.
Politicians were forced to flee as the building was occupied by protesters who handed over security forces. Five people died in the violence, including one Capitol Police officer.
In the aftermath of the incident, Twitter and Facebook removed Trump accounts and have deleted content in support of the attack, while Amazon.com stopped Parler – the best social media platform with many Trump supporters – from their web hosting service.
‘Stop the theft’
Facebook said Monday that it is taking such care in the wake of Biden’s inauguration as president on Jan. 20. Announcing the ban last week, Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said he used to Trump took the stage to incite violence and was worried he would continue to do so.
Content containing the phrase “stop the theft” will be removed from Facebook and Instagram, according to officials Monika Bickert and Guy Rosen.
Facebook also blocks all advertisements in the United States about politics or elections, meaning that ads from politicians do not include Trump.
Twitter went a step further by deleting Trump’s account, removing him from his favorite platform. He was already marking his tweets controversy over the outcome of the election with warnings.
The company also deleted more than 70,000 accounts linked to QAnon’s conspiracy theory, which states that, without any evidence, Trump is secretly waging a global cabal of satanist liberals.
Trump was also hit with shows by services like Snapchat and Twitch.
The #StopHateForProfit campaign on Tuesday called for YouTube to downplay Trump’s confirmation channel as it allows the president to “continue to spread false information” about the legitimacy of the election.
“If YouTube does not agree with us and join the other platforms in banning Trump, we are going to go to the advertisers next thing,” said a senior. Common Sense Media officer Jim Steyer, campaign organizer.