New York: While former US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new communications platform called ‘From the Desk of Donald J Trump’ after being banned from social media giants Twitter Inc suspended several accounts this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of Trump’s website, saying they broke its rules against evading an account ban.
Donald Trump had been banned from social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, after his posts about the US general elections triggered insurrection at the US Capitol days before he was to hand over the office to successor Joe Biden.
On Tuesday, a page was added to Trump’s site, dubbed “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” where he posts messages that can be shared by his audience to both Twitter and Facebook.
“As stated in our ban evasion policy, we’ll take enforcement action on accounts whose apparent intent is to replace or promote content affiliated with a suspended account,” a Twitter spokesman said in a statement.
A Trump representative said they had nothing to do with the suspended accounts, which included @DJTDesk, @DJTrumpDesk, @DeskofDJT and @DeskOfTrump1.
Twitter, which has said that its ban on Trump is permanent even if he runs for office again, has said users can share content from the Trump page as long as it does not fall foul of its ban evasion rules.
Facebook’s oversight board is set to decide whether he would be allowed to re-join the social media platform or not.
