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PublishedJanuary 7, 2021
Facebook bans Trump through Biden inauguration, maybe longer
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the risk of allowing Trump to use the platform is too great, following his incitement of a mob that later touched off a deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2021
Twitter locks Trump’s account for 12 hours and warns he could be kicked off for good
Facebook follows, blocking the president's account, for the first time, for 24 hours for what it said were two policy violations.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2020
Twitter says it flagged 300,000 tweets for election disinformation
The election turned out to be the most secure in U.S. history, federal and state officials from both parties say — repudiating Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2020
Twitter to label or remove misleading claims on vote results
The policy goes into effect Sept. 17, a few weeks before the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election.
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PublishedMay 28, 2020
Trump escalates war on Twitter, social media protections
Days after Twitter applied fact checks to two of his tweets, the president signs an executive order challenging the lawsuit protections for free speech on the internet.
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PublishedMay 27, 2020
Trump expected to sign order that could threaten punishment of social media
The president claims that tech giants Facebook, Google and Twitter 'silence conservative voices.'
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2020
Attorney General Barr suggests big tech should be accountable for harmful content
He says it may be time for significant changes to a key part of federal law that shields the companies from liability for their users' posts.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2019
Leeds man fires back after Donald Trump calls him an ‘animal’
Richard Fochtmann, called an "animal" by Trump on Twitter, said Monday he considers the president a bully, a racist and a would-be dictator.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2019
In contrast to Facebook, Twitter will ban all political advertising
The move comes as Facebook has taken fire since it disclosed that it will not fact-check ads by politicians or their campaigns.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2019
Migrant in Portland ‘shocked’ by fake Twitter account used to smear fellow asylum seekers
Someone posed as Prince Pombo Mafumba in an attempt to stoke xenophobia and anger among Mainers.
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