Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey warns of 'destructive' consequences from Trump social media bans

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey issued a warning Wednesday night on the "destructive" consequences of widespread social media bans nearly a week after his company announced a permanent suspension of President Trump's Twitter account. 

"I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump from Twitter, or how we got here," Dorsey tweeted in a 13-post thread. "After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter. Was this correct?"

Twitter said the ban of the outgoing president was "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." 

The social media giant cited two messages Trump tweeted on the same day as the attack on Capitol Hill by pro-Trump rioters, with the president pushing claims of widespread voter fraud and encouraging his supporters to "never concede."

"These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots," Trump wrote in a since-deleted tweet.

Since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, eight other social media platforms have announced suspensions, some permanent, of Trump's accounts, including Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, and Twitch.