Selena Gomez declares war on Facebook and Google: “cashing in from evil”
Sunday, 17 January 2021, 11:59:07
Selena Gomez once again accused the big tech companies like Google, Facebook or Twitter – the so-called ‘Big Tech’ – of inciting violence in the US. “This is about truth versus lies and Facebook, Instagram and big tech companies have to stop allowing lies to just flow and pretend to be the truth,” she said. […] For more stories like Selena Gomez declares war on Facebook and Google: “cashing in from evil” , please click here Revyuh .
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Researchers working on Twitter's bluesky effort discuss how its open decentralized standard for social media could hinder efforts to stop online radicalization (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)
Sunday, 17 January 2021, 07:55:14
Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Researchers working on Twitter's bluesky effort discuss how its open decentralized standard for social media could hinder efforts to stop online radicalization — The platform's vision of a sweeping open standard could also be the far-right's internet endgame
— Techmeme

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 03:14:29
Dorsey was working remotely a private island in French Polynesia on January 6 when Trump's supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, and his team pushed to suspend the president's account.
— Daily Mail Online

‘Law unto themselves': the Australian battle to curb Facebook and Twitter's power
Saturday, 16 January 2021, 20:00:40
The suspension of Donald Trump’s accounts sparked outrage among conservatives but the prevailing mood is for greater regulation Nationals MP Anne Webster and Labor MP Sharon Claydon are less concerned with why Donald Trump was taken off social media, and more concerned with what platforms such as Facebook are doing to stop online defamation and abuse. Webster and Claydon are the co-chairs of the Parliamentary Friends of Making Social Media Safe, a group to “highlight the environment of social media and the risks associated” and to make the platforms more accountable. It now boasts more than 50 members thanks partly to Twitter and Facebook’s response to last week’s attack on the US Capitol. Continue reading…
— The Guardian

Twitter and Facebook clamp down on social media accounts of Colombian dissidents
Saturday, 16 January 2021, 18:49:48
Twitter and Facebook have clamped down on the social media accounts of an armed group of Colombian rebels for ‘inciting violence', a week on from the US Capitol riots
— Daily Mail Online
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