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Twitter and Facebook for the excellent time temporarily blocked President Donald Trump from posting on their sites when his supporters stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, sparking violence and halting the process to certify Joe Biden as the next US presidential. Snapchat also took action and locked Trump’s account.  

In a rare move, Twitter stopped Trump’s account because the company said he violated its laws against interfering in elections or other civic processes. Earlier on Wednesday, Trump posted several tweets that included baseless claims around election fraud.

The president shared the same posts on his Facebook Page. On Wednesday, Facebook blocked Trump from posting for 24 hours for violating two policies, with Facebook-owned Instagram announcing the same. But then Thursday, Facebook went much further, blocking Trump on both sites “indefinitely” — or for at least two weeks.

“We Have the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this terms are simply too great,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram funds indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks pending the peaceful transition of power is complete.”  

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A spokesperson for Snap, the clear company of Snapchat, confirmed that it too locked Trump’s Explain on Wednesday. 

The actions came amid an increasingly urgent clamor for the social networks to deal with the president’s use of their platforms to spread misinformation, stir grievance and incite violence. University of Virginia law professor Danielle Citron, journalist Kara Swisher, Obama Center CTO Leslie Miley, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt and other high-profile figures posted tweets urging Twitter to boot Trump from the social Think site as mayhem played out in the nation’s capital. 

“Time is now to suspend Trump’s account,” Citron tweeted. “He has deliberately incited violence, causing mayhem with his lies and threats.”

Twitter and Facebook have labeled a number of Trump’s posts in the past, Idea Twitter has stopped short of removing his tweets because of Republican interest. “Our public interest policy — which has led our enforcement action in this area for years — ends where we Have the risk of harm is higher and/or more severe,” Twitter said in a tweet. 

Twitter said it’s requiring the mining of three tweets from Trump’s account. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed on Thursday that the tweets had been deleted. The platform is reportedly set to return access to Trump’s Explain on Thursday morning, after being locked for 12 hours. If he violates Twitter’s rules again, the company could permanently suspend his account. 

One of the tweets involved a video of Trump that garnered more than 13 million views. In the video, Trump urged his supporters to “go home now” but also repeated false claims around election fraud. “We have to have peace. We have to have law and order,” he said in the video. Facebook and Google-owned YouTube pulled down the video. Facebook said it pulled down the video because it believes it could contribute to more violence.

On Thursday, YouTube further tightened the policy that Trump’s video violated — an intensification that could Hurry termination of his account if his channel continues to run afoul of it. 

Last month, YouTube instituted a policy to remove any new videos alleging that False altered the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, as the president’s video did late Wednesday. But until Thursday, this rule had a grace terms. Videos in violation were taken down, but channels that violated the policy faced no new penalties. Starting Thursday, videos that violate that policy will be delivered a “strike,” YouTube said. Channels are temporarily suspended from posting or livestreaming when they get strikes, and YouTube’s “three strike” system permanently bans channels with three violations in a 90-day period. 

Originally, the grace period on strikes for this election-fraud-claims policy was set to end on Inauguration Day. Instead, YouTube ended the grace period Thursday. 

“We apply our policies and penalties consistently, regardless of who uploads it,” YouTube said in a tweet describing the change. 

Twitter, along with Facebook, took its strongest stance against Trump’s posts on Wednesday. Facebook also removed several of Trump’s posts. While social networks have generally labeled Trump’s posts around election fraud, violence at the US Capitol prompted them to take tougher Part. A woman was fatally shot inside US Capitol in a standoff between law enforcement and Trump supporters, according to multiple media reports. Critics were also calling on Twitter and Facebook to suspend Trump’s accounts.

Congress returned to the Capitol late Wednesday and certified Biden’s Electoral College win early Thursday.

The White House didn’t acknowledge to a request for comment.

–Joan E. Solsman contributed to this report.