Vivek Wadhwa, a leading Harvard Law School associate, said he would not be “surprised” if President Trump’s social media accounts were suspended for a week at a time, as “more persistence” was expected.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave Mark Zuckerberg a twist on Wednesday night in a tweet that appears to be blaming the founding of Facebook for the violence that erupted at the U.S. capital.
| Ticker | Safety | Last | Alter | Alter% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSLA | TESLA INC. | 804.95 | +48,97 | + 6.48% |
“This is called the domino effect,” Musk co-wrote with a meme that apparently linked the origins of Zuckerberg’s Facebook to the mob that stormed the Capitol building to challenge the outcome of the presidential election.
| Ticker | Safety | Last | Alter | Alter% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FB | FACEBOOK INC. | 268.26 | +4.92 | + 1.87% |
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The meme that Musk posted set up a stack of tiles like dominoes. The smallest tile contains a caption that reads “a website to rate women on campus,” which referred to FaceMash, the predecessor to Facebook that Zuckerberg developed in 2003 to let people rate what their classmates look like.
The largest tile in the meme was marked with a message from Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent of The New York Times Magazine.
“The Capitol appears to be under the control of a man in a Viking hat,” reads Leibovich’s report.
Musk’s tweet, which has since garnered more than 204,000 likes, was posted hours after Trump supporters descended on Washington to protest Congress’ formal approval of Biden’s victory, which led to dozens of arrests and four deaths. resulted.
Musk’s comments, however, come even when Twitter took an unprecedented step to suspend Trump temporarily to post on the platform.
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In the run-up to Wednesday, Trump claimed there was widespread fraud in the election to declare his defeat and encouraged his supporters to come to Washington through numerous social media posts.
Trump spent the run-up to the proceedings to publicly use Pence, who had a largely ceremonial role, to help drive the results.
Twitter, as well as Facebook and Instagram, both Mark Zuckerberg companies, have suspended him for posting on their platforms after they said he was violating their policies.
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After Twitter shut Trump out of his account for 12 hours, Facebook and Instagram followed suit. On Thursday, both extended the block indefinitely, Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his personal Facebook account.
“We have reviewed two policy violations against President Trump’s page, which will result in a 24-hour feature block, meaning he will lose the ability to post on the platform during that time,” Facebook tweeted Wednesday night.
Representatives of Elon Musk and Facebook did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.