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Trump banned from Twitter, Facebook, and others / Parler banned from app stores
January 12, 2021
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Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Adi Robertson, and Casey Newton chronicle the week since the Capitol riot: Trump gets deplatformed and Parler is removed from app stores.
Further reading:
- It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here
- FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule
- Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments
- Twitter permanently bans Trump
- Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban
- Twitter bans QAnon supporters, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn
- Twitter pulls Trump video that it said posed a ‘risk of violence’
- Facebook bans Trump ‘indefinitely’
- YouTube says it will punish Trump and other channels that continue to spread election lies
- YouTube removes Trump video addressing Capitol attack
- Platforms take action against Trump after Capitol mob attack
- Reddit bans r/donaldtrump forum for inciting violence
- Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely
- Big Tech pauses political spending after Capitol riot: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Airbnb are pausing spending
- Shopify takes down Trump’s campaign store
- Google pulls Parler from Play Store for fostering calls to violence
- Apple removes Parler from the App Store
- Parler CEO says even his lawyers are abandoning him
- Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting
- Parler posts, some with GPS data, have been archived by an independent researcher
- Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet
- Why the post-Capitol deplatforming was necessary
- Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet
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