Big Tech’s crusade to silence President Donald Trump kicked it up a notch on Tuesday night.
Google suspended the president’s YouTube account and disabled its comments.
The company confirmed that it issued the White House a warning for violating its terms of service. Google maintains a three-strike rule, and the first strike results in a temporary account suspension.
YouTube did not identify what content violated its policies.
“After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies,” the company said in a statement on social media Wednesday evening. “Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.”
This comes as Facebook, Twitter, and a growing number of other social media companies targeted Trump over manufactured and feigned outrage.
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