SAN BRUNO (KPIX) – Add YouTube to the growing list of online social media that have suspended President Donald Trump.
The San Bruno-based video-sharing website is the latest platform to ban President Trump.
YouTube announced Wednesday night that it was shutting down Donald J. Trump’s official channel for at least a week, citing lingering concerns about potential violence.
Google is the parent company of YouTube.
After the deadly Jan.6 attack on Capitol Hill as Congress convened to count the electoral votes for each state and confirm that President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were the winners, other platforms- Forms, including Twitter, Facebook and Google, have announced similar bans on President Trump’s accounts.
1 / After review, and in light of concerns about the potential for continued violence, we have removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies. He now has his first warning and temporarily cannot upload new content for a * minimum * of 7 days.
– YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) January 13, 2021
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2 / Given the lingering concerns about violence, we will also be turning off comments on President Trump’s channel indefinitely, as we have on other channels where security concerns can be found in the comments section. https://t.co/1aBENHGU5z
– YouTubeInsider (@YouTubeInsider) January 13, 2021
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