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Obama calls for Trump to be banned from Facebook, Twitter permanently

By Thomas A. Smith

Pressure is mounting on the nation’s leading social media companies to permanently ban Donald Trump from their platforms as former first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday joined the growing number of powerful voices calling for the president’s ouster to prevent him from using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to incite another wave of violence.

Trump has been blocked from posting to Facebook and Instagram “indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday.

But Obama along with civil rights groups say he needs to be banned for good and condemned Facebook, Twitter and Google s YouTube for failing to stop the flood of extremist and dangerous content from Trump and his supporters that they say fueled Wednesday’s violence.

via www.usatoday.com