Mark Zuckerberg Bans Donald Trump's Facebook And Instagram Account.| Globecalls.Com

The massive protest of Trump supporters wreaked havoc in the Capitol yesterday prompting Facebook and Instagram owner Mark Zuckerberg to ban the outgoing President’s account on both platforms due to failure to use the platform to condemn the violence but condone it.

This was according to the latter’s post on Facebook and Instagram about the restrictions laid on the president’s account.

According to him, the action is to prevent the outgoing president from inciting more havoc on the democracy of the United States to pace the way for the democratically elected President Joe Biden and his Vice Kamala Harris to be inaugurated on the 20th of Jan. 2021.

The shocking events of the last 24 hours demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.

His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect — and likely their intent — would be to provoke further violence.

Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and by established democratic norms.

Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving the use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.

We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete. He wrote on both platforms.