Enlarge / Google’s corporate headquarters. reader comments 366 with 113 posters participating Share this story Google has banned the right-wing social media app Parler from its Play Store for Android. In a statement to Ars, Google said it was enforcing long-standing policies requiring that social media apps remove “egregious content like posts that incite violence.” ..
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Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 614 with 261 posters participating Share this story Twitter has permanently suspended President Donald Trump’s personal Twitter account due to repeated incitement of violence, the company announced Friday night. “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them—specifically how they are being received ..
reader comments 152 with 64 posters participating Share this story Twitter on Friday removed the accounts of several high-profile supporters of President Trump and the QAnon conspiracy theory. Targets included former Trump advisor Michael Flynn and former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. The rioters who broke into the Capitol on Wednesday were of course supporters of ..
Enlarge / Sidney Powell, flanked by Rudy Giuliani, at a press conference on Nov. 19, three days before the Trump campaign publicly cut ties with her. reader comments 169 with 107 posters participating Share this story Dominion Voting Systems has filed a suit against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that her widespread, unfounded ..
reader comments 408 with 153 posters participating Share this story Enlarge / Derrick Evans shouts on his Facebook livestream as a mob enters the US Capitol. Derrick Evans The West Virginia state lawmaker who was part of a pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol was arrested today and is being charged by federal authorities. ..
Enlarge / Ajit Pai backs slowly away from President Trump. reader comments 124 with 78 posters participating Share this story Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said he is dropping his plan to help President Trump impose a crackdown on social-media platforms and offered mild criticism of Trump’s incitement of a mob that stormed the ..
Enlarge / A woman is wearing a mask with the Uighur flag on it during the demonstration ‘Freedom for Uyghurs’ in The Hague, Netherlands on August 20, 2020. Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images reader comments 109 with 65 posters participating, including story author Share this story Twitter has told Ars Technica that a Chinese ..
Enlarge / Boeing 737 Max planes. reader comments 120 with 91 posters participating Share this story Misleading federal regulators who were investigating not one but two plane crashes turns out to be a bad idea. On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that Boeing has been charged with a conspiracy to defraud a government agency ..
reader comments 52 with 34 posters participating Share this story The US Justice Department has become the latest federal agency to say its network was breached in a long and wide-ranging hack campaign that’s believed to have been backed by the Russian government. In a terse statement issued Wednesday, Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi said ..
Enlarge / Supporters of US President Donald Trump breach the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC. reader comments 675 with 246 posters participating Share this story Update, 8:40pm EST: Facebook has now suspended Trump from posting on its site for the next 24 hours, Axios reports. The company also said in a ..
