Some Twitter employees have set their accounts to private and scrubbed their online biographies over concerns they may be targeted by supporters of President Trump. Some Twitter executives have been assigned personal security as the company reckons with its decision to bar one of its loudest voices.

Trump’s @ realDonaldTrump account was permanently suspended from Twitter January 8th,’due to the risk of further incitement of violence’. The president told supporters at a rally just before an attack on the Capitol January 6th they would’have to show strength’ and’fight much harder’.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was not convinced a temporary ban on the president was the right decision. Twitter executives said the response to trump’s tweets suggested there was great potential for more real-world violence.

More than 300 Twitter employees had signed an internal petition calling for a permanent Trump suspension. Snapchat issued its own permanent ban, and Twitch and Facebook put indefinite bans on President Trump’s accounts.

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