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Washington Post : As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities   —  Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak : Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub for violating counterfeit policy: Sci-Hub founder says suspension may be related to an ongoing court case in India   —  Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a site that offers a free gateway to paywalled research.

Axios : A list of platforms that banned or limited Trump-affiliated accounts: Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, Apple, Snapchat, TikTok, Shopify, Pinterest, and more   —  Platforms are rapidly removing Donald Trump's account or accounts affiliated with pro-Trump violence and conspiracies, like QAnon and #StoptheSteal.

It’s nearing the end of a week that’s not only shaken Washington and the country …it’s rocked the world.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that pro-Trump rioters who breached the Capitol on Wednesday “chose their Whiteness over Democracy.” 

Congressional calls for the impeachment of President Trump are gaining traction on both sides of the aisle, as lawmakers announced Saturday that impeachment would be introduced in the House Monday.

John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News : In an email to Parler, Amazon says it will suspend Parler's AWS account effective Jan. 10 for failing to comply with its TOS and posing a risk to public safety   —  Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services.  Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists …

President-elect Joe Biden said on Twitter Saturday that President Trump is “not above the law,” after the House announced it would be bringing forth articles of impeachment on Monday.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, a new member of the progressive "squad," is introducing legislation to investigate whether alleged White nationalism in the U.S. Capitol Police factored into the deadly riot at the Capitol Wednesday.

New York Times : Apple has suspended Parler from the App Store, saying Parler “has not taken adequate measures” to address threats to people's safety on its platform   —  The companies removed the “free speech” social network from their app stores, limiting its reach just as many conservatives …

Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, Pa., said that President Trump “committed impeachable offenses” in his efforts to throw out the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Ariel Pink has been let go from his music label just days after admitting he attended a President Trump rally in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, the same day protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol building.

Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny called Twitter’s ban of President Trump an “unacceptable act of censorship” that could be exploited by oppressive governments around the world.

House Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senate Republican Ted Cruz continued their days-long diatribe Saturday, exchanging blows on Twitter as the country comes to grips with the attack on the Capitol this week.

An Oregon Democrat is apologizing for likening a second impeachment of President Trump to a "lynching."

Kim Lyons / The Verge : With the removal of Trump's Twitter account, many of his tweets embedded on thousands of web pages were wiped out, creating an ultimate case of “link rot”   —  All those embedded posts of his tweets are now broken  —  When Twitter banned President Trump from its platform permanently on Friday …

Former President Barack Obama took to Twitter Friday to address why Civil Rights groups and lawmakers are furious over the vastly different approach law enforcement took to Wednesday’s U.S. Capitol breach compared to last summer’s Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests.

Rev. Raphael Warnock, who will take Georgia’s Senate seat in the coming weeks, did not answer one question on the minds of voters throughout the entire campaign cycle: whether or not he would support adding more justices to the Supreme Court. 

After Twitter took the extraordinary step of banning President Trump from its platform Friday, a stunned group of lawmakers and supporters weighed in on the decision.

Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat : Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax's Luminate platform   —  Equifax announced today that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive …

Sean Hollister / The Verge : Twitter has taken down tweets from @POTUS in which Trump criticized his ban and suggested looking “at the possibilities of building out our own platform”   —  They're gone  —  Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today.  For a brief moment, he managed to tweet anyhow …

Royal expert Katie Nicholl said that a return to royal life for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry "isn't going to happen."

Parler's failure to remove 'egregious content' related to the D.C. riots violates Google's longstanding policies, the company said.

Petition needs just 500,000 more signatures by mid-March deadline.

Shawna Chen / Axios : Google suspends Parler from the Play Store over moderation and enforcement policies, citing an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat”   —  Google has pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives and far-right extremists, from its app store following the company's role in the deadly U.S. Capitol siege this week.

President-elect Joe Biden said on Friday that Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley should be “flat beaten” in their next elections for their part in spreading “the big lie.” 

Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., reacted to Twitter banning President Trump from its platform by posting famous video footage of a U.S. official announcing the capture of former dictator Saddam Hussein during the Iraq war.

Jay Peters / The Verge : Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection”   —  The server had connections to the banned r/The_Donald subreddit  —  Discord has banned a server called “The Donald …

Twitter : Twitter describes how it decided to suspend Trump's account, specifying how two tweets were in violation of its Glorification of Violence Policy   —  After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received …

New York Times : Dlive, a livestreaming platform that has attracted a far-right userbase, had a near record of 150K concurrent viewers on Wednesday, according to estimates   —  A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

George Clooney isn't holding back in denouncing the riots on Capitol Hill.

Tech giant Apple is said to be considering banning Parler from its app store, a decision that could be related to how it handled the riots on Capitol Hill this week.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced Friday night she will begin to take the necessary steps to impeach President Trump if he does not resign for his role in the breach on the U.S. Capitol earlier this week.

The White House is warning that if Democrats proceed with impeaching President Trump, it would divide the country at a time that should be reserved for healing.

The congressional endeavor of certifying the Presidential winner in the Electoral College is typically a banal ritual. Only this year – following weeks of mounting emotions, filed lawsuits to overturn the results and insistence from President Trump and his supporters that the election was stolen – it became a jaw-dropping event pockmarked by thousands storming the Capitol building, shots ringing out, tear gas deployed, and lives lost. So what happened? How did should a showdown come to be?

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R, called on President Trump to resign Friday, and questioned her future within the Republican Party. 

After two weeks, the health care center still has nearly half of the doses it received

The Verge : Twitter says it has permanently suspended Trump's @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”   —  The president's preferred megaphone is gone  —  Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving four dead.