Twitter locks US President Donald Trump’s account for ‘severe violations’ of civic integrity policy

Twitter has for the first time locked the account of US President Donald Trump and threatened to permanently suspend him from the platform, in the wake of “unprecedented” and “violent” protests in the US Capitol.

The social media giant deleted three of the President’s tweets — including a video message repeating false claims that he won the election by a “landslide” — for “repeated and severe violations” of its civic integrity…