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 Facebook
• took its first cases only last month
• in suspending Donald Trump from its platform
• Here’s Facebook’s Nick Clegg
• decision to indefinitely suspend
• Oversight Board
• over the coming days
• made a persuasive case that Facebook refer the Trump matter to the board earlier this month
• a new post that you should very much read here
• said Daphne Keller
• Marbury v. Madison
• added
• Democratic members of the House of Representatives called on
• Facebook
• ,
• Twitter
• , and
• YouTube
• to make sweeping changes in response to the January 6 Capitol insurrection
• Twitter
• locked the Chinese embassy out of its account after a tweet about its treatment of the Uighur population
• Joe Biden
• named Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chief of the Federal Communications Commission
• A look back at
• Ajit Pai
• ’s most harmful actions as head of the FCC
• A court ruled that
• Amazon
• doesn’t have to provide service to
• Parler
• Parler
• could expose its users to Russian surveillance if the site someday does relaunch in full with
• DDoS-Guard
• Airbnb’s
• trust and safety team is trawling
• Facebook
• ,
• Twitter
• and other sites to find white nationalists and other extremists and purge them from the platform
• Here’s a database of 7.6 million tweets related to election fraud
• Steve 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 directory
• Using facial recognition technology, amateurs are combing through downloaded
• Parler
• archives to develop a fuller picture of who was present at the Capitol insurrection
• Some of the key documents of the Trump era are proving difficult to archive, presenting challenges for future historians
• Meet the new tech bureaucracy
• China
• is accelerating efforts to spread disinformation about Western vaccines and spread conspiracy theories about COVID-19
• China
• proposed new measures to increase competition among its tech giants, threatening companies with more than 50 percent market share with antitrust probes
• Beeper
• is a universal chat app — combining iMessage, Instagram, Slack, and other products — that costs $10 a month
• Patreon
• is considering a public listing this year
• An internal
• Facebook
• memo tells employees to think about building products with the assumption they will get no access to user data
• TikTok
• collects significant data about users even when they do not have accounts, according to this analysis
• Google
• signed a deal with
• France
• to reuse snippets of publisher content in Google search products
• Bernie Sanders
• is once again the star of a meme
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Created 1/22/2021