A Twitter account posting messages from former President Donald Trump has been suspended.
The social media platform, which permanently suspended Trump in January, struck down user @DJTDesk on Thursday, citing its ban evasion policy.
“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 spokesperson told the Washington Examiner.
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The bio for the account said it “posts copied from Save America on behalf of the 45th POTUS,” according to a screenshot of the account. The bio also said Trump was not tweeting through the account.
Twitter suspended the Trump blog account @DJTDesk. Twitter spokesperson said: 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. pic.twitter.com/v2RYslP8Xg
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Company policy prohibits users from operating on behalf of a suspended account or have a suspended user permanently take over someone else’s account. Twitter also does not allow someone to imitate a suspended account if the user’s goal is to replace the one that was taken down, according to its guidelines.
However, NBC News reported that Jason Miller, a spokesman and adviser to Trump, said that the account had no affiliation with the former president.
Trump, who frequented Twitter before and throughout his presidency to express his opinions, attack opponents, and announce policy decisions, was permanently suspended from the platform after a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Trump was also banned from other social media platforms, including Facebook, and in recent months has turned to sending out messages through his Save America PAC and a new platform this week.
Although Trump is banned, it is commonplace for his supporters, journalists, and others to post screenshots of his missives to Twitter without any sort of crackdown by the social media platform.
On his website on Thursday, Trump wrote about his beliefs that the 2020 election was riddled with voter fraud, lamenting that the news media, Democrats, and Big Tech were working in conjunction to perpetuate the narrative that election fraud was Trump’s “Big Lie.”
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Election officials, including members of his own administration, have insisted the 2020 election was secure, and dozens of lawsuits filed after the November contest that alleged voter fraud or other irregularities were dismissed by the courts.
