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Gary Coby, the digital director for Donald Trump's 2020 campaign, has been kicked off Twitter after reportedly making his account available to the US president, following Trump's permanent ban from the platform.

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Coby received a suspension after apparently offering his account to White House social media director Dan Scavino. In a public message tweeted at Scavino, Coby suggested that he had made changes to his profile that would allow Trump to immediately begin tweeting.

"Texting you my Twitter login," he wrote to Scavino. "I already updated the profile pic, name, etc. Feel free to use!"

The account was banned shortly after. The 'Trump War Room' Twitter account, which is managed by the president's 2020 campaign, said Coby was "clearly joking" and did not actually provide the president or one of his aide's with his account login.

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been hit by Twitter's campaign of high-profile censorship, as the platform removed his messages blasting coronavirus vaccines from the US and the UK as "completely untrustworthy."

Khamenei's remarks were posted to his multiple accounts, run in different languages, late on Friday. The Twitter thought police, however, were quick to react, purging the messages it deemed "misleading."

The mass deletion of Khmaenei's messages comes amid a campaign of high-profile censorship waged by the social media platform against US President Donald Trump and his supporters in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill unrest.

In his short-lived statement, which was also published by the White House press pool in addition to the @TeamTrump page, the president lashed out at Twitter for suppressing free speech and promoting the "Radical Left," suggesting he would soon migrate to another platform while telling supporters to "stay tuned." His ban came after a raucous demonstration in Washington, DC this week saw thousands of his backers storm the US Capitol building, where five people were killed in the chaos, prompting a litany of web platforms to expel both the president and his fans from their sites.

Joining that drive on Friday night were Discord and Reddit, which handed bans to Trump-supporting groups 'The Donald' and r/DonaldTrump, respectively, both citing repeated policy violations of rules around encouraging "violence" and "hate."

Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat have taken similar steps against Trump's personal accounts in the wake of Wednesday's unrest.

Parler, meanwhile, was kicked off of Google's Play Store earlier on Friday, with the Alphabet-owned company citing the site's lax content-policing, which it said allowed incitement to violence to proliferate. Apple's App Store, too, is reportedly considering following suit.

A record label has parted ways with singer and songwriter Ariel Pink, after it was revealed that he took part in the January 6 protest in Washington, DC. The artist claims he took no part in the riots at the Capitol.

Independent record label Mexican Summer said in a tweet that it was ending its "working relationship" with Pink "going forward." The company was set to release a new album from the artist at the end of January. The popular indie musician attracts more than one million listeners per month on Spotify.

Although Mexican Summer did not elaborate on its decision, the announcement comes after Pink was attacked on social media for attending the pro-President Donald Trump rally in Washington on Wednesday.

The Trump-supporting artist apparently realized that he would soon be thrown under the bus.

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