Fears over Trump assassination calls as twitter trolls demand president elect is murdered
DONALD TRUMP has been threatened on Twitter with assassination.
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The social networking site has been slammed for its inability to clamp down on criminals who threaten users with violence.
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Indeed Disney is believed to have walked away from a deal to buy the company due to the nasty rhetoric it freely allows to be distributed.
Now scores of people have taken aim at Donald Trump threatening to assassinate him after he was elected to take over the White House.
They called on Mr Trump to be killed last night after his historic win and even created the hashtag #AssasinateTrump.
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Threats called for both President-elect Trump and his running mate and Vice President-elect Mike Pence to be killed.
One user called OctobersVeryOm said: "Yo i'm not saying someone should try and assassinate trump.... but if you do, don't miss."
While CJ Pesôs said: "I'll take the L and Assassinate Trump if y'all put money on my books."
User Rollllyy said: "#Assasinatetrump #itonlytakesone Who's gunna do it
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And Exterryminator said: "Honestly if you guys are serious about wanting to assassinate trump you're gonna have to ask for the 2for1 special and take pence out too."
User Cheolesterol said: "SOMEBODY F****** ASSASSINATE HIM RIGHT NOW IM SO UPSET."
While Grumpyhornby said: "PLEASE DONT ASSASSINATE DONALD TRUMP BEFORE YOU ASSASSINATE MIKE PENCE PLEASE DONT PUT PENCE IN CHARGE."
GomezBuckets14 said: "Where el chapo so he can put an end to this right now #AssasinateTrump."
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The website has done nothing to clamp down on the threats leaving serious concerns over its future viability.
Twitter sacked 800 people two weeks ago and is not believed to actively monitor complaints instead using robots to analyse threats.
Its CEO Jack Dorsey is battling with its massive debt and has claimed he will do something about the harassment but as yet has done nothing.
And the FBI has demanded the firm do more to prevent the disgusting threats that are freely distributed with impunity.
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The Secret Service have reason to take the threats seriously since it is not the first time someone has actually carried out a Twitter threat.
In August Zachary Penton, 21, from Arizona, murdered his flatmate Daniel Garofalo after threatening to do so on the micro-blogging site.
In October Trenton Forster, 18, threatened on twitter to shoot police before going on to allegedly murdered 33-year-old officer Blake Snyder.
In July, Twitter took no action when thousands called for the mass murder of US police officers.
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The firm has refused to respond to requests for comment.
One of its board members is millionaire Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho, who sits in the House of Lords.
She is a "Member of the Panel for the Independent Surveillance Review" which looks at national security issues and is believed to allow her access to classified information.
However twitter was recently condemned for being a recruiting ground for terrorists by the UK Parliament and has done nothing to counter this.
She has not responded to requests for comment on Twitter threats.
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