R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe criticises Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: “That platform allowed Trump a voice”

nme.com:

Michael Stipe has criticised the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, over his failure to not suspend the account of former US President Donald Trump sooner.Speaking to The Guardian, the former R.E.M.

frontman said it was “upsetting” that Trump’s account wasn’t suspended earlier.Last year, towards the end of Trump’s presidency, he was banned from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram over fears his posts could incite further violence following the storming of Capitol Hill.Stipe said: “It’s so upsetting to me that it took the end of the years of Trump as president for Twitter and Jack Dorsey to finally decide that Trump had said something that was offensive on Twitter, and [his account] needed to be suspended.”He continued: “That platform allowed Trump a.