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Although Donald Trump continues to reject the results of the presidential elections, Twitter and Facebook will pass control of the account from @POTUS (President of the United States) to Joe Biden on January 20, 2021, the date on which the president-elect will take office. possession.
In a statement to Reuters, Twitter announced that it is “actively preparing to support the transfer of institutional accounts from the White House”, as it did in 2017, when the Trump administration took office.
“In 2017, we worked simultaneously with the Obama and Trump Administration to ensure that the transition to Facebook and Instagram pages was as smooth as possible on January 20 and we hope to do the same,” the company told the news agency. Directed by Mark Zuckerberg. .
On the day of the inauguration, both social networks will also transfer the accounts @VP (Vice President) and @FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States), from Mike Pence and Melania Trump to Kamala Harris and Jill Biden.
Although the passage does not require any type of information exchange between the teams of both Administrations, Twitter will meet with collaborators of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and those responsible for the transition will decide how the official White House account will be used (@casa White).
It is recalled that despite having access to the @POTUS account on Twitter, Donald Trump preferred to use his personal account (@realDonaldTrump) to communicate with his followers and multiple of his publications have been highlighted by Jack Dorsey’s social network as false information or misleading.
Recently, when Christopher Krebs, head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) since 2018, resigned via Twitter, the outgoing president’s posts, alleging the existence of vote counting fraud, were reported by Twitter as potentially information. misleading.
The end of Donald Trump’s term also means that his privileges as a “world leader” on Twitter will end as soon as Joe Biden takes office. The social network confirmed that your personal account must follow the same rules as other users, including the possibility of being expelled for messages that incite violence and provide false information.
