Facebook considers it too risky for Donald Trump to be present on the community site. The ban is now indefinite instead of 24 hours.

Biden Won, Trump Still Fighting: 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

On November 3, a presidential election was held in the United States. The competition between Republican Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden was very close in several states, so it was only on November 7 that it turned out that Joe Biden would be the 46th president of the United States. Follow the events and possible consequences of the prolonged presidential election on hvg.hu.

Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog post Thursday afternoon that even after the 24-hour ban announced Wednesday through Thursday night, Donald Trump will not be allowed on Facebook, the US President’s access will be suspended. ” indefinitely. “

The company decided to take the move after supporters protesting alongside Donald Trump marched to the Capitol on Wednesday, where, after the president made it clear he refused to resign and his vice president openly turned on him, the crowd stormed. .

Zuckerberg put it this way:

The shocking events of the past 24 hours have shown that Donald Trump is using his remaining term to undermine the peaceful transfer of power to newly elected President Joe Biden.

The Facebook boss also said the indefinite ban will last at least two weeks, until the transfer takes place, and will also affect Trump’s Facebook page and Instagram account.

Zukerberg also writes that Trump’s entries did not convict the robbers in the Capitol building, he “forgave” them. These posts were removed from the platform by Facebook on Wednesday.

It must be clear to the entire country that the transfer of power will take place peacefully in the next 13 days.

He wrote in his post.

On Tuesday, Facebook, YouTube and later Twitter also made inaccessible the video message of the outgoing president of the United States, in which he continued to mention himself as the real winner of the presidential election.

Trump was previously banned from Twitter, where he was banned for 12 hours. The company also said that if Trump violates the terms of use again after his release, he will be banned from Twitter forever.

Although this 12-hour ban has expired, Donald Trump has yet to post another post on Twitter.

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