US President Donald Trump was blocked on all major platforms, including Facebook and Twitter, which permanently suspended his account, after the 6 January riot at the US Capitol in Washington when a group of suppers of the president stormed the building, clashed with the police and damaged property.
The Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, compared on Thursday social media bans of US President Donald Trump’s accounts to a “nuclear explosion” in the cyber sector, slamming this as a blow on democratic values that the West claims to be attached to.
According to the spokeswoman, this decision by the US online platforms “can be compared to a nuclear explosion in the cyber sector, where consequences are more dramatic than destruction itself.”
After the storming of Capitol Hill on 6 January, social media giants Twitter and Facebook, and Google’s YouTube suspended Donald Trump from their platforms.
Earlier today, Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey stated that the decision to ban Trump from the platform was right.
At the same time, Google, Apple and Amazon suspended their services to Parler – a social network popular with Trump supporters – accusing it of failing to act on posts related to the Capitol Hill violence.
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