Discussion

• @sarafischer Sara Fischer on x

  #BREAKING: @reddit has banned subreddit r/Donaldtrump 1. Not official Trump subreddit 2. Ban was result of repeated violations by community since Wed for glorifying and inciting violence 3. Community moderators were given previous warnings - Story to come on @axios

• @rgoodlaw Ryan Goodman on x

  “The White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, warned Mr. Trump that he could face legal exposure for the riot given that he had urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and ‘fight’ beforehand.” @EricSchmittNYT @maggieNYT reporting https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jamesrbuk James Ball on x

  Another tech company independently arrives at the same decision as all the others at the same time. Gee! https://twitter.com/...

• @carljackmiller Carl Miller on x

  Here goes Reddit too. You really can't overstate how important r/TheDonald has been to the Trump internet - it is a cultural and political heart of the movement https://twitter.com/...

• @kailijoy Kaili Joy Gray on x

  Did his lawyer explain to him that putting out a video today doesn't change what Trump did yesterday? https://twitter.com/...

• @meganromer Megan Romer on x

  Sure would love to see the notes from the meeting. https://twitter.com/...

• @tekaldas Timothy E Kaldas on x

  We need to thoroughly reevaluate a governance problem that's been centuries in the making; the vast & ever expanding powers of the presidency. Mueller's investigation made it clear that the president is indeed above the law while in office & this pardon could make that for life h…

• @alexnazaryan Alexander Nazaryan on x

  Whoa. It's like Silicon Valley decided that today was the day. https://twitter.com/...

• @rgcooke Richard Cooke on x

  Another one. This is the Saturday Night Massacre for posts. https://twitter.com/...

• @mrjaywashington Jay Washington on x

  Oh NOW they getting rid of it ALL ! ! ! ! https://twitter.com/...

• @therecount @therecount on x

  And, last but not least, Reddit joins the rank and file of social media companies removing Trump and Trump-affiliated profiles from their platforms. https://www.axios.com/...

• @fairchild01 @fairchild01 on x

  “We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol.” Reddit cracking down kinda late @@thespybrief https://twitter.com/...

• @arneduncan Arne Duncan on x

  You think he just gave that teleprompter speech because he believed anything he was saying? Of course not. Trump will always look out for only one person- himself. And, all the sheep who followed him yesterday are getting their first taste of getting run over by the Trump bus. ht…

• @calamur Harini Calamur on x

  The Conservative movement has to act if it wants to remain relevant. the bigots and crazies are destroying the Right, far more than the wokes are destroying the left. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  In STILL OTHER news, @Discord says it has banned server The Donald, which was connected to TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit. Made decision “due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection,” spox says.

• @dreamcastguy @dreamcastguy on x

  Look, even if you hate politics it is VERY interesting to see one of the most powerful people in the world being deleted off the entire internet lol. The end of Trump! https://twitter.com/...

• @slasher Rod Breslau on x

  Discord says they have been monitoring the TheDonald community since October. a Discord spokesperson has provided the following statement in full https://twitter.com/...

• @iansherr Ian Sherr on x

  Looks like the internet's finally saying “no” to the crazy they allowed to fester, and that we saw on full display Wednesday. https://twitter.com/...

• @caitlin__kelly Caitlin Kelly on x

  .@EmmaGreyEllis looked at the Trump supporters and far-right extremist coalitions converging on the Capitol, and spoke to researchers who—like a number of smart people!—aren't surprised at the violence. 2/ https://www.wired.com/...

• @cestegman Casey Stegman on x

  All of this is the tech version of the end of a Scorsese mob movie https://twitter.com/...

• @mikebutcher Mike Butcher on x

  The dominos are falling. Even Discord is banning a pro-Trump server. https://twitter.com/...

• @alibreland Ali Breland on x

  from discord: “While there is no evidence of the server being used to organize the Jan 6 riots, Discord decided to ban the entire server today due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection in the United States”

• @buzzfeednews @buzzfeednews on x

  Social media companies banned Trump, but not the groups he inspired https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @janelytv Jane Lytvynenko on x

  A search of key terms on Facebook turned up 66 Stop the Steal groups and 72 events from the last week. As Facebook bans Trump, groups he inspired have membership in the thousands. The company didn't respond to our requests for comment. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...

• @michelleobama Michelle Obama on x

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• @michelleobama Michelle Obama on x

  Like all of you, I've been feeling so many emotions since yesterday. I tried to put my thoughts down here: https://twitter.com/...

• @nbcnews @nbcnews on x

  JUST IN: Former first lady Michelle Obama calls on tech companies to permanently ban President Trump from their platforms and put policies in place “to prevent their technology from being used by the nation's leaders to fuel insurrection.” https://twitter.com/...

• @wired @wired on x

  In a race against social platforms and some rioters themselves, a movement of citizen journalists is working to preserve seditious streams and selfies taken by participants at Wednesday's insurrection https://www.wired.com/...

• @jamesclayton5 James Clayton on x

  Citizen journalists are trying to save the footage that rioters uploaded onto social media for the police https://www.wired.com/...

• @kylegriffin1 Kyle Griffin on x

  Michelle Obama: “Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior—and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms.”

• @fbnewsroom @fbnewsroom on x

  We believe the risks of allowing President Trump to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great, so we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks. https://twitter.com/...

• @twitch @twitch on x

  We've made the decision to remove the PogChamp emote following statements from the face of the emote encouraging further violence after what took place in the Capitol today.

• @pomeranian99 Clive Thompson on x

  Facebook's ban of Trump, as @GiladEdelman notes in @WIRED, only happened because executives were finally forced to seriously consider the impact of Trump's words - their real-world context: https://www.wired.com/... They could have done that months ago, of course https://twitter.…

• @craigsilverman Craig Silverman on x

  NEW: A network of YouTube channels sprung up after the election as part of a disinfo campaign to keep Trump in office. They now have more than 1m subscribers and 10s of millions of views. I found they're connected to pro-Trump media outlet Epoch Times: https://www.buzzfeednews.co…

• @scottlucas Scott Lucas on x

  A group of YouTube channels connected to the Epoch Times is pumping out hoaxes and lies without identifying their connections to the right-wing newspaper. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... via @CraigSilverman