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(Reuters) -Facebook Inc said it would block U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s accounts for at least the next two weeks and perhaps indefinitely with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying the risks of allowing him to use the platform were \u201csimply too great.\u201d<\/p>

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS\/Jim Bourg<\/figcaption>

The block by Facebook, which was joined by live-streaming platform Twitch and photo-sharing service Snap Inc, is the most significant sanction of the president by a major social media company. Tech giants have been scrambling to crack down on the president\u2019s baseless claims about the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election after hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in unrest that resulted in four deaths.<\/p>\n

“The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Thursday. (Post: bit.ly\/2Lc6Xj1)<\/p>\n

He said the action on Trump\u2019s Facebook page, which has 35 million followers, would last at least until President-elect Joe Biden takes office on Jan. 20 and would also apply to Facebook-owned Instagram.<\/p>\n

Twitter Inc temporarily locked Trump\u2019s accounts on Wednesday. Twitter said its freeze of @realDonaldTrump, which has more than 88 million followers, would last until 12 hours after Trump removes three tweets. Trump has not tweeted since the being blocked.<\/p>\n

Amazon.com Inc\u2019s Twitch also said on Thursday it had disabled Trump\u2019s channel due to the \u201cextraordinary circumstances and the president\u2019s incendiary rhetoric.\u201d A spokeswoman said it would reassess Trump\u2019s account after he leaves office.<\/p>\n

E-commerce platform Shopify also said on Thursday it was shutting down service for stores affiliated with Trump for violations of its \u201cacceptable use\u201d policy, prompting e-commerce sites for both the campaign and the Trump Organization to go offline.<\/p>\n

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Social media companies have been under pressure to police misinformation about the U.S. election on their platforms, including from the president. Trump and his allies for months have amplified baseless claims of election fraud and the president told protesters to go to Capitol Hill, with both Republicans and Democrats saying he was responsible for the resulting violence.<\/p>\n

In a video posted to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Wednesday, which was later deleted by the platforms, Trump repeated election fraud claims as he told protesters to go home.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the U.S. and around the world,\u201d said Zuckerberg in his Thursday post.<\/p>\n

Civil rights groups including Color of Change have called for social media companies to permanently ban Trump from the platforms, where he has repeatedly violated policies.<\/p>\n

The Anti-Defamation League praised Facebook\u2019s move, calling it \u201can obvious first step,\u201d while the NAACP in a statement said the move was a \u201clong overdue\u201d gesture that \u201crings hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook has previously been blasted by lawmakers and employees for not acting on inflammatory posts from Trump, including those that have been labeled by Twitter.<\/p>\n

Facebook has drawn criticism for exempting politicians\u2019 posts and ads from its third-party fact-checking program and repeatedly said it does not want to be \u201cthe arbiter of truth.\u201d The company has in recent months started labeling some of Trump\u2019s statements.<\/p>\n

Some Facebook employees joined calls for Trump\u2019s accounts to be shut down on Wednesday, according to internal posts seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n

Democratic Representative Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said in a statement he was \u201cdeeply frustrated that it took a group of domestic terrorists storming the Capitol\u201d for Facebook to take action and wondered \u201cif the decision was an opportunistic one, motivated by the news of a Democratically controlled Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic Senator Mark Warner, incoming chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he was glad social media was cracking down on Trump\u2019s false claims but the actions did not go far enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese platforms have served as core organizing infrastructure for violent, far right groups and militia movements for several years now \u2013 helping them to recruit, organize, coordinate and in many cases (particularly with respect to YouTube) generate profits from their violent, extremist content,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

YouTube, which is owned by Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google, said Thursday any channel that posts videos with false claims about the election results will be temporarily restricted from uploading or live streaming.<\/p>\n

YouTube did not respond to a question about whether it would ban Trump\u2019s account in the same manner as Facebook, while a Twitter spokesman said it was continuing to \u201cevaluate the situation in real time, including examining activity on the ground and statements made off Twitter.\u201d He said Twitter would inform the public if an \u201cescalation\u201d in its approach was necessary.<\/p>\n

Violent rhetoric ramped up significantly in the past three weeks on major social networks as well as alternative platforms like Parler and pro-Trump site TheDonald.win, as groups planned for the rallies, according to researchers and public postings.<\/p>\n

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