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Twitter permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s account on Friday.

The company said in a tweet it made the decision “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”

Twitter said it feared Trump’s most recent tweets were being interpreted as supporting the rioters and that plans for future armed protests had already been proliferating both on and off the platform, including a proposed attack on the U.S. Capitol and state capitol buildings on Jan. 17.

The suspension amounts to a ban: Trump can no longer access his account and his tweets and profile picture have been deleted. Trump had 88.7 million followers prior to his suspension. Institutional accounts such as @POTUS and @WhiteHouse are still active.

Trump later tweeted a statement from the @POTUS account before it appeared to be deleted. Later Friday, the same statement was shared by the Trump campaign’s Twitter account before that entire account was permanently.

“As we’ve said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules,” a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.

Twitter said it would not suspend institutional accounts like @POTUS unless it had to in order to avoid real-world harm, but that it could limit those accounts’ capabilities. Those accounts will be transferred to the next administration.

In Trump’s statement, he accused Twitter employees of having “coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me — and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me. Twitter may be a private company, but without the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long.”

Trump was referring to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the law that protects tech platforms from legal liability for their users’ posts and for moderating them. The Trump campaign account also shared an image of the usually blue Twitter logo in red with a yellow hammer and sickle, symbols associated with communism.

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