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“WE HAVE PERMANENTLY SUSPENDED THE ACCOUNT.”

—Twitter stated that it has permanently banned account from its platform, citing the risk of the US president using the platform to incite further violence, following the storming of Capitol Hill by his supporters. “Twitter was a political tool that had helped get him elected and a digital howitzer that he relished firing,” wrote last year, in a piece on how Trump reshaped the presidency with tweets. Other online platforms that have outright removed or restricted Trump’s

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