Tech

Filing: Amazon warned Parler for months about “more than 100” violent threats

Enlarge / Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo displayed during the 4th edition of the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte de Versailles on May 17, 2019, in Paris, France. (credit: Chesnot | Getty Images) Amazon on Tuesday brought receipts in its response to seemingly defunct social networking platform Parler’s lawsuit against it, detailing […]

Tech

YouTube suspends Trump’s account, disables comments “indefinitely”

Enlarge (credit: YouTube / Getty / Aurich Lawson) YouTube, following in the path of very nearly every other social media platform, is suspending President Donald Trump’s channel due to concerns that he will use it to foment additional violence in the coming days. “After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for […]

Tech

Twitter permanently bans Donald Trump’s account from the platform

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) 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 and interpreted on and off Twitter—we have permanently […]

Tech

Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them

Enlarge / The seditionists who broke into the US Capitol on Wednesday were not particularly subtle and did not put any particular effort into avoiding being identified. (credit: Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images) Law enforcement agencies trying to track down insurrectionists who participated in yesterday’s events at the US Capitol have a wide […]

Tech

Facebook, Instagram ban Trump through at least Inauguration Day

Enlarge (credit: Facebook / Aurich Lawson) In the wake of yesterday’s incidents at the US Capitol, Facebook is officially suspending President Donald Trump’s account through at least January 21, if not longer, company CEO Mark Zuckerberg said today. “The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use […]

Entertainment

Karlie Kloss Says She’s ‘Tried’ To Persuade Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner To Accept The 2020 Election

Karlie Kloss is doing her best to deal with the in-laws… The model is married to Jared Kushner‘s brother Joshua, as you may know, and so she has unique access to the current administration’s Senior Advisor and his wife — Donald Trump‘s daughter Ivanka Trump. And yet it sounds like in spite of her best efforts, Jar […]

Sport

This is America, 2021: This is who we are, even if we say otherwise

Covering sports for a while now, I’ve heard “That’s not who I am” more times than I can count. It’s not restricted to sports, of course. Every public figure who has gotten caught doing something they shouldn’t uses that line. “That’s not who I am.” Read more…