6 days ago | By NY Times

Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
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Watch now: Big tech becomes a big political target

6 days ago | By Stl Today

Technology companies have become political targets, with Facebook getting hit with an antitrust suit and Republicans complaining about social media platforms' ban on President Donald Trump. Jim Gallagher argues for breaking up Facebook and Google, while David Nicklaus says that...
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Trump backers seek online refuges after big tech backlash

6 days ago | By Chron

Online supporters of President Donald Trump are scattering to smaller social media platforms, fleeing what they say is unfair treatment by Facebook, Twitter and other big tech firms looking to squelch misinformation and threats of violence.
The efforts by those mainstream platforms, prompted by the deadly rampage at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, will likely succeed, according to social media and misinformation experts. But the crackdown could send some of Trump's fiercest supporters retreating to dark and secret spaces on the internet where conspiracy theories and violent rhetoric run...
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There's a basic problem with calling Facebook and Twitter 'platforms' - and it took Trump for us to see it

6 days ago | By Business Insider

Summary List Placement After years of poisoning the civic well with his unique brand of lies, insults, distortions, narcissism, and overall poor manners, Donald Trump has found himself deplatformed .
My spellchecker doesn't like this word, and I don't like it either, at least in reference to the actions Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and others have taken to silence, ban, suspend, penalize, and otherwise restrict the soon-to-be-ex-President and others from publishing on their respective properties.
Deplatforming, in contrast to these plain-English descriptions of Trump's plight, is a...
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