Twitter said on Wednesday that former President Donald Trump will remain banned forever from the soc🐟ial media platform, even if he runs for office again.
“When you are removed from the platform, you are🀅 removed from the platform,” Twitter’s chief financial officer, Ned Segal, “Whether you are a commentator, you’re a CFO, or you are a former or current public official.”
“Remember, our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence. A🧸nd if anybody does that,♐ we have to remove them from the service. And our policies don’t allow people to come back,” he added.
Twitter banned Trump’s account “permanently” on Jan. 8, two days after a crowd of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as lawmakers gathered to certify the Electoral College 🦹vote for President Biden.
The decision, Twitter said, was “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” and cite🐈d Trump’s comments and posts claiming the Novemb💫er election had been stolen from him.
Facebook has also ba🔜nned Trump from its platform.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey pointed to a 1🍃0 percent surge in shares to show that the social media giant is not feeling any ill effects from banning Trump.
“We’re a platform that is obviouꦆsly much larger than any one topic or any one account,” Dorsey said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday, CNBC reported.
He also said Twitter has💃 the strength of a w🎃orldwide market.
“We have a global service. We are also not just dependent upon just news and politics being wh🎐at drives Twitter,” Dorsey said.
Facebook also announced in Januar🐠y that the ♔company has “no plans” to lift its ban on Trump’s account.
Speaking to Reuters columnis𒊎t Gina Chon , ⭕Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg defended the decision as preventing a “risk to democracy.”
“In this moment, the risk to our democracy was too big that we felt we had to take the unprecedented step of what is an indefinite ban,” she said at the time. “And I’m glad ♏we did.”
Asked about the length of the ban, Facebook’s No. 2 did not provide a timeline:🦄 “Our ban is indefinite. We’ve said at least through the transition, but we have no plans to lift it.”