Email Fwd: Facebook kicks Trump to the Oversight Board

Donald Trump speaks to supporters at Joint Base Andrews for his last time as President on Wednesday. (Pete Marovich / Getty Images)From the start, the...

a novel effort to build a kind of judicial branch for Facebooktook its first cases only last monthin suspending Donald Trump from its platformHere’s Facebook’s Nick Cleggdecision to indefinitely suspendOversight Boardover the coming daysmade a persuasive case that Facebook refer the Trump matter to the board earlier this montha new post that you should very much read heresaid Daphne KellerMarbury v. MadisonaddedDemocratic members of the House of Representatives called on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to make sweeping changes in response to the January 6 Capitol insurrectionTwitter locked the Chinese embassy out of its account after a tweet about its treatment of the Uighur populationJoe Biden named Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chief of the Federal Communications CommissionA look back at Ajit Pai’s most harmful actions as head of the FCCA court ruled that Amazon doesn’t have to provide service to ParlerParler could expose its users to Russian surveillance if the site someday does relaunch in full with DDoS-GuardAirbnb’s trust and safety team is trawling Facebook, Twitter and other sites to find white nationalists and other extremists and purge them from the platformHere’s a database of 7.6 million tweets related to election fraudSteve Bannon broadcasts election denialism and apocalyptic calls to action several times a day via Apple’s podcast app, prompting some calls for Apple to remove him from its directoryUsing facial recognition technology, amateurs are combing through downloaded Parler archives to develop a fuller picture of who was present at the Capitol insurrectionSome of the key documents of the Trump era are proving difficult to archive, presenting challenges for future historiansMeet the new tech bureaucracyChina is accelerating efforts to spread disinformation about Western vaccines and spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19China proposed new measures to increase competition among its tech giants, threatening companies with more than 50 percent market share with antitrust probesBeeper is a universal chat app — combining iMessage, Instagram, Slack, and other products — that costs $10 a monthPatreon is considering a public listing this yearAn internal Facebook memo tells employees to think about building products with the assumption they will get no access to user dataTikTok collects significant data about users even when they do not have accounts, according to this analysisGoogle signed a deal with France to reuse snippets of publisher content in Google search productsBernie Sanders is once again the star of a meme[email protected]