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By Reuters | Updated: 7 May 2021 10:06 IST

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Twitter has allowed sharing of content from the Trump page as long as it doesn't fall foul of its rules

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Twitter suspended s sharing statements from Donald Trump's site
The company cited its ban evasion policy for the suspension
Suspended s include @DJTDesk, @DJTrumpDesk, and @DeskofDJT

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Twitter suspended several s this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of former US President Donald Trump's website, saying they broke its rules against evading an ban.

Trump was banned from Twitter, where he had more than 88 million followers, and multiple other social media platforms following the deadly January 6 siege of the US Capitol by his ers.

On Tuesday, a page was added to Trump's site, dubbed "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump," where he posts messages that can be shared by his audience to both Twitter and Facebook.

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"As stated in our ban evasion policy, we'll take enforcement action on s whose apparent intent is to replace or promote content d with a suspended ," a Twitter spokesman said in a statement.

A Trump representative said they had nothing to do with the suspended s, which included @DJTDesk, @DJTrumpDesk, @DeskofDJT and @DeskOfTrump1.

Twitter, which has said that its ban on Trump is permanent even if he runs for office again, has said s can share content from the Trump page as long as it does not fall foul of its ban evasion rules.

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On Wednesday, Facebook's oversight board Facebook six months to decide a proportionate response.

Trump plans to launch his own social media platform, an adviser has said.

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