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Too late to jump ship? Trump officials quit over Capitol riots

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (R) stands beside President Donald Trump at the Trump Tower in New York City, August 15, 2017. /CFP They stood by him through four tumultuous years. But ev

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Trump Concedes US Election, Says Capitol Rioters ‘Defiled the Seat of American Democracy’

Trump has been fighting for two months to ensure what the president called the "legitimate results" of the 2020 election, insisting that his victory was "stolen" by Dem

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Stolen computers are the least of the government’s security worries

Reports that a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office was stolen during the pro-Trump rioters’ sack of the Capitol building has some worried that the mob may have access to impor

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TikTok bans videos of Trump inciting mob, blocks #stormthecapital and other hashtags

For obvious reasons, Trump doesn’t have a TikTok account. But the President’s speeches that helped incite the mob who yesterday stormed the U.S. Capitol will have no home on TikTok’s

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Trump returns to Twitter with what sounds like a concession speech

It’s been a long couple of days for the country, but President Trump only had to wait 12 hours before returning to his social network of choice.In an uncharacteristically scripted three-ish minu

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Biden says Trump incited 'domestic terrorists' at U.S. Capitol

President-elect Joe Biden said on Thursday that President Donald Trump fomented Wednesday’s violence at the U.S. Capitol, calling it one of the darkest days in the hist

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TikTok bans videos of Trump inciting mob, blocks #stormthecapital and other hashtags

For obvious reasons, Trump doesn’t have a TikTok account. But the President’s speeches that helped incite the mob who yesterday stormed the U.S. Capitol will have no home on TikTok’s

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Daily Crunch: Facebook bans Trump for two weeks

Online platforms take action against President Trump, Lenovo tries out a swiveling screen and Roblox raises $250 million. This is your Daily Crunch for January 7, 2021.The big story: Facebook bans Tr

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Michelle Obama calls on Silicon Valley to permanently ban Trump and prevent platform abuse by future leaders

In a new statement issued by former First Lady Michelle Obama, she calls on Silicon Valley specifically to address its role in the violent insurrection attempt by pro-Trump rioters at the U.S. Capito

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Decrypted: How bad was the US Capitol breach for cybersecurity?

It’s the image that’s been seen around the world. One of hundreds of pro-Trump supporters in the private office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after storming the Capitol and breaching secur

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Twitch disables Trump’s channel over ‘incendiary rhetoric’

Following a slate of temporary and permanent bans from a number of the top online platforms, popular video streaming service Twitch today confirmed that it has disabled the President of the United St

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Top Senate Democrat says Trump must be removed from office

Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer said Thursday that President Donald Trump should be removed immediately from office after inciting the "insurrection" at the US Capitol. /Getty Images Top Sen

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YouTube will start penalizing channels that post election misinformation

YouTube just announced that channels publishing “false claims” about the U.S. presidential election will be penalized with a strike, which would temporarily suspend them from posting vide

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Shopify pulls Donald Trump stores off its platform

Facebook isn’t the only big tech company taking action against Donald Trump’s web presence in the wake of yesterday’s riots in Washington, D.C.Shopify, which hosted shops related to

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Trump to be blocked from posting on Facebook, Instagram

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump. /Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump will not be able to post anything on Facebook and Instagram, at least for the remainder of his term in office

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Twitter will reinstate Trump’s account following his deletion of tweets

A Twitter spokesperson has confirmed with TechCrunch this morning that Trump has deleted three tweets that led to the temporarily suspension of this account last night.Twitter locked the account pend

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Mark Zuckerberg announces Trump banned from Facebook and Instagram for ‘at least the next two weeks’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced via his platform that Donald Trump will be blocked from using both Facebook and Instagram “for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transiti