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The official Twitter account for the Trump campaign was locked Online Cigarettes Store USA as of Thursday morning, according to communications director Tim Murtaugh.
It follows efforts by platforms to limit the circulation of a dubious New York Post article with incendiary claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Murtaugh tweeted from his personal account a screenshot of the campaign's account Newport Cigarettes Shop status, showing a notice from Twitter saying it had been locked.
The account was tweeting again around an hour and a half later.
The campaign account's tweet, which is no longer available, contained "clips of Joe Biden lying, " Murtaugh said, without evidence.
A spokesperson for Twitter told Business Insider that accounts that violate its privacy and hacked Cheap Newport 100s cigarettes materials policy may be required to delete such tweets. The official Trump campaign Twitter account was locked on Thursday after it posted clips relating to the recent New York Post story about Hunter Biden, according to its communications director Tim Murtaugh.
The account was active and tweeting again around an hour and a half after Murtaugh first said it had been locked.