Social Media Suspends Trump

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Ahead of the Election, Social Media Platforms Have Given Up

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Meta, Twitter , YouTube , and Twitch suspended former president Donald Trump over posts the companies said glorified the violence at the Capitol .

Platforms also took sweeping actions to remove thousands of accounts belonging to militias, conspiracy theorists, and the content they shared that led the US to that moment.

But that didn’t last long.

WIRED reached out to every senator and member of the US Congress asking if they would accept the final election results as called by the Associated Press .

Have your representatives agreed to certify the election come January ? Click this link to open our tool to find your representatives and their responses to our question of whether they will accept the AP 's results.

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