China News Service, January 7 reported that on the afternoon of January 6, local time, the two houses of the US Congress held a joint meeting to verify the election results. Hundreds of protesters gathered in Washington, DC to demonstrate support for US President Trump.
Trump has expressed his stance on multiple social media accounts.
Subsequently, platforms including "Twitter," "Facebook," Instagram, and YouTube have taken actions to delete or restrict postings on Trump's social accounts.
On January 6, local time, the joint meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to confirm the results of the Electoral College vote was interrupted due to large-scale riots caused by supporters of the current President Trump breaking into the Capitol.
The picture shows a Trump supporter being subdued.
According to reports, that night, the "Twitter" company issued a statement saying: "Trump's account will be frozen for 12 hours." And said that if there are further violations of platform rules in the future, its account will be permanently suspended. .
On the same day, "Twitter" also deleted several related tweets of Trump on the violence in the U.S. Capitol.
“Facebook” issued a statement stating, “We have assessed two violations of the policy against Trump’s page, which will result in a 24-hour feature blockade, which means that during this period, he will not be able to access the platform. Post on."
"Facebook" vice president Guy Rosen said that day, Facebook "is taking appropriate emergency measures, including the deletion of President Trump's video."
Trump earlier released a video telling the protesters who stormed into Congress to "go home now", but he still insisted that the election was "stolen."
In addition, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, a social media platform owned by Facebook, also confirmed that Trump’s Instagram account will also be locked for 24 hours.
In addition, YouTube also deleted videos posted by Trump's account.
YouTube said in a statement that the videos in question violated "policies on content that claimed widespread fraud or mistakenly altered (election) results."