Twitter says it has permanently suspended Trump's @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”
The president's preferred megaphone is gone — Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving four dead.
Twitter describes how it decided to suspend Trump's account, specifying how two tweets were in violation of its Glorification of Violence Policy
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received …
Apple gives Parler 24 hours to institute a full moderation policy or face expulsion from the App Store, according to emails between the two companies
Apple has given Parler, the social network favored by conservatives and extremists, an ultimatum to implement a full moderation plan …
Reddit bans one of its largest Trump supporting subreddits, r/donaldtrump, due to repeated policy violations with regard to the violence at the Capitol
Sara Fischer / Axios :
Twitter has taken down tweets from @POTUS in which Trump criticized his ban and suggested looking “at the possibilities of building out our own platform”
Tweets from @POTUS and @TeamTrump have been removed — Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today.
Roku has acquired global rights for Quibi content, sources say for less than $100M, and will make it available free to stream in 2021 on the Roku Channel
Maker of the biggest U.S. streaming video-player plans to put the content in its ad-supported channel
Twitter and Facebook's ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing
When I started writing this post, it was about Facebook's decision to suspend Trump's account indefinitely …
In internal letter, ~350 Twitter employees asked leadership to permanently suspend Trump's account and investigate Twitter's role leading up to the insurrection
The suspension amounted to a historic rebuke for a president who had used the social-networking site to rise to political prominence.
Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”
The server had connections to the banned r/The_Donald subreddit — Discord has banned a server called “The Donald …
Twitter has banned the accounts of several Trump advisers, including Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn, for violating its ban on “Coordinated Harmful Activity”
Twitter on Friday removed the accounts of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other high-profile supporters … Tweets: @oneunderscore__ , @brandyzadrozny , @oneunderscore__ , @alkapdc , and @zaackhunt Twe...
Twitter permanently suspends @TeamTrump after the account posted quotes from Trump's now removed @POTUS tweets, says evading suspension is against its rules
Jack Morse / Mashable : Tweets: @wtajnews , @scottbudman , @livemint , and @martinsfp Tweets: @wtajnews : Twitter permanently suspended the @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incite...
YouTube terminated Steve Bannon's War Room podcast channel and one associated channel on Friday, after receiving three strikes for violating YouTube's rules
YouTube on Friday said it banned the channel of Steve Bannon's popular War Room podcast, after it repeatedly violated the Google-owned platform's rules.
Dlive, a livestreaming platform that has attracted a far-right userbase, had a near record of 150K concurrent viewers on Wednesday, according to estimates
A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax's Luminate platform
Equifax announced today that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive …
Google suspends Parler from the Play Store over moderation and enforcement policies, citing an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat”
Google has pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives and far-right extremists, from its app store following the company's role in the deadly U.S. Capitol siege this week.
Analysis: Apple's App Store grossed an estimated $64B+ in 2020, up 28% from an estimated $50B in 2019 and $48.5B in 2018
- Apple's App Store grossed more than $64 billion in 2020, according to an analysis by CNBC. — That's up from an estimated $50 billion in 2019 and $48.5 billion in 2018 …
Roku says Roku OS-powered smart TVs held 38% market share in the US and 31% in Canada in 2020, according to NPD
Jason Gurwin / The Streamable :
YouTube says it will temporarily restrict channels that post misinformation about the 2020 election results, potentially including Trump's
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Sources: Intel has held talks with TSMC and Samsung to outsource some of its high-end chip production overseas; talks with Samsung are more preliminary
Bloomberg :
What to expect from an online-only CES 2021, which promises to be a relatively slow show: TVs with Mini-LED tech, new laptops from PC manufacturers, and more
Nicole Lee / Engadget :
Twitch disables Trump's account indefinitely, preventing his channel from streaming, but leaves his profile and archived videos up for viewing
After confirming discussions on an Apple car and seeing stock surge 20%, Hyundai has updated its statement removing any mention of Apple from it
Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC :
Michelle Obama calls on Silicon Valley to permanently ban Trump from their platforms and prevent leaders from using platforms to “fuel insurrection”
Q&A with Aaron Saunders, VP at Boston Dynamics, on teaching robots to dance and how that informs the company's approach to robotics for commercial applications
Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum : Tweets: @aparanjape , @mouserelec , @kaeshour , @pranavab47 , and @helengreiner Tweets: Amit Paranjape / @aparanjape : By now, most of you would have seen those amazin...
Substack says it plans to roll out a “multipub” tool, which will let users aggregate newsletters and podcasts they manage under one publication, in February
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UK High Court rules that security services cannot search the computers and phones of millions of people under a single “general warrant”
Emma Woollacott / Forbes : Tweets: @privacyint and @privacyint Tweets: @privacyint : WE WON. After a five year battle, the UK High Court agreed with us: general warrants defy 250 years of common law ...
UK's competition watchdog says it is investigating Google's proposals to remove third-party cookies from Chrome over concerns it could curb rival advertising
Tanishaa Nadkar / Reuters :
A look at Zameen, a Pakistani online real estate marketplace, estimated to initiate 70% of all sale and rental transactions in the country
w/t @MutaherKhan https://restofworld.org/... Sumon Sadhu / @sharpshoot : I love learning about startups with regional monopolies —> 2/3rds of all real-estate transactions in Pakistan flow through @Zam...
Sources: AT&T couldn't get an HBO Max distribution deal for Amazon's Fire TV devices before WarnerMedia agreed to extend its contract for AWS services
Jessica Toonkel / The Information : Tweets: @matthewkeyslive , @whatsonhbomax , and @tzm_tmt See also Mediagazer Tweets: Matthew Keys / @matthewkeyslive : This is a terrific scoop by Jessica. My writ...
Sex workers say Pornhub's defunding by Visa, Mastercard, and Discover is putting their livelihoods at risk and will not solve the problem of illegal content
Thomas Fabbri / BBC : Tweets: @mylesjackman , @therealsirips , and @gingerbanks1 Tweets: Myles Jackman / @mylesjackman : “Removing the ability for people to purchase ethically-made good porn from ind...
Kuo says there will be no improvements to main iPhone camera lens in 2021 and 2022 but does not change forecasts for upgrades for ultrawide and telephoto lenses
Car makers including Volkswagen, Daimler, GM, and Renault are facing a crippling shortage of semiconductors; Volkswagen said it'll produce 100K fewer cars in Q1
Sources: China's Baidu has selected CLSA and Goldman Sachs for its planned second listing in Hong Kong, which could raise at least $3.5B
Cisco sues optical interconnect equipment maker Acacia Communications for trying to end a $2.6B merger after Acacia said it failed to get approval from China
Madrid-based digital temp staffing agency Jobandtalent raises ~$108M, bringing total raised to $290M, says it helped 80K+ workers with temporary gigs last year
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