GERMANY, January 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Twitter for shutting down President Trump’s account, calling it “problematic.”
Twitter permanently deleted Trump’s account from its social media platform on January 8, no longer allowing the president to reach his 88 million followers. Twitter cited as its reason the “risk of further incitement of violence” following the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building.
According to Merkel, as related through spokesman Steffen Seibert at a news conference in Berlin, Big Tech executives “bear great responsibility for political communication not being poisoned by hatred, by lies and by incitement to violence,” adding however, that the right to express one’s own opinion is of “elementary significance.”
“This fundamental right can be intervened in, but according to the law and within the framework defined by legislators – not according to a decision by the management of social media platforms,” Merkel added through her spokesman.
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