YouTube suspends Trump's channel for at least seven days

Several people check their electronic devices in front of the YouTube logo.Dado Ruvic / Reuters

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, owned by Google, suspended on Tuesday for "at least seven days" the channel of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and deleted one of his videos for violating its policy against hate speech.

The political leader faces similar measures on other social networks after his followers stormed the Capitol last week.

"Given concerns about the current risk of violence, we have suppressed new content posted on Donald J. Trump's channel for violation of our policies," the video platform wrote in a statement.

The president's channel was "temporarily disabled to download new content for at least seven days," added YouTube, which also specified that comments will remain disabled "indefinitely", as has been done "with other channels where there are security concerns."

This is the latest in a series of measures adopted by social networks after Trump supporters attacked the US Legislative complex on January 6, causing five deaths, including a police officer.

Last Friday, Twitter permanently suspended Trump's account, after having done so temporarily, due to "the risk of further incitement to violence."

With this tool, the outgoing president had issued more than 55,000 messages for more than eleven years and his profile had 89 million followers.

Facebook and Instagram also blocked the president's access to his account at least until the transfer of power was completed on January 20, and Twitch and Snapchat deactivated his profile indefinitely.