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Donald Trump’s Twitter account has been permanently suspended “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”.

Tweets from the US president’s @realDonaldTrump handle have been wiped, with his account now showing the words: “Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules.”

The Twitter Safety account posted shortly afterwards, saying: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.

It comes after Mr Trump was similarly banned from Facebook and Instagram following riots at the US Capitol on Wednesday.

Twitter said two of the president’s tweets posted on Friday had violated its glorification of violence policy.

The move has outraged conservatives, who claim Twitter’s decision sets a dangerous precedent when it comes to free speech.

Sky News host Sharri Markson says the extreme censorship of the Hunter Biden story is “deeply concerning” as it has reached a point where social media giants think they can determine the accuracy of stories published by newspapers.

It comes after the New York Post released an expose detailing links between Joe Biden and his son who was paid at least $50,000 a month to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company who allegedly set up a meeting with the then-Vice President.

Ms Markson recently interviewed Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who revealed Joe Biden’s son emailed a shop owner who had his hard drive in an effort to get it back.

Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton noted the interview has four million views on the Sky News YouTube channel, and has been watched for a total of half a million hours straight.

Mr Houghton said he knew there were people who were critical of Ms Markson doing the story, “but it turns out people have voted with their eyeballs”.

“What make this story even more concerning is the fact that there has been such extreme censorship of this story by Twitter – and Facebook as well which limited its reach,” Ms Markson said.

“The point to which social media giants think they can make a determination on the accuracy of a story done by media outlets is so deeply concerning and should worry all of us.

“And they continue to censor publication of Hunter Biden’s emails, we now know these are genuine emails.

“How can a tech giant suddenly start to play editor and decide which stories that a newspaper publishes are accurate or not.”