Those involved in the riots fell prey to a con-job orchestrated by the president, his party, and the social media giants who enabled them. We should not celebrate Silicon Valley for finally acknowledging that problem.
It appears as though the fate of the app will fall into the hands of the upcoming Biden administartion.
The CEO's damning emails could give the government all the evidence it needs to prove that Facebook engaged in anti-competitive business tactics.
The nuclear option approach to content moderation may become increasingly popular as internet platforms are held increasingly responsible for the actions of their users.
The emails show both that Facebook knew that they could rake in users with the promise of better privacy settings and that they could roll back those settings as they succeeded in driving competition out of the market.
The US Department of Justice is finally taking the tech giant to task for its monopolistic market practices.
The fact that Twitter has already changed its hacked content policy is proof enough that consumer backlash is still the most effective weapon against Big Tech.
Eleven states joined the DOJ lawsuit and others are considering similar moves.
The ban was set to go into effect Sunday at midnight.
The Commerce Department also made it illegal to host web traffic linked to the Chinese messaging app WeChat.
