Four people died on Capitol grounds in the chaos, including a woman who was shot and killed inside the building. Twitter locked Trump's account until 12 hours after he deletes those tweets and a video in which he alleged the presidential election was fraudulent and urged protesters to go home. Former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos likewise tweeted: "Twitter and Facebook have to cut him off." Some Facebook staffers joined calls for Trump's accounts to be shut down and demanded transparency from executives about how they were handling the situation, according to internal posts seen by Reuters. He said Facebook was treating the situation as an emergency and "implementing additional measures to keep people safe," without elaborating.

Source: bd News24 January 07, 2021 16:18 UTC