Trump banned from Twitter, Facebook, and others / Parler banned from app stores

Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Adi Robertson, and Casey Newton chronicle the week since the Capitol riot: Trump gets deplatformed and Parler is removed from app stores.

Further reading:

It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here 

FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule

Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments

Twitter permanently bans Trump

Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban

Twitter bans QAnon supporters, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn

Twitter pulls Trump video that it said posed a ‘risk of violence’

Facebook bans Trump ‘indefinitely’

YouTube says it will punish Trump and other channels that continue to spread election lies

YouTube removes Trump video addressing Capitol attack

Platforms take action against Trump after Capitol mob attack

Reddit bans r/donaldtrump forum for inciting violence

Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely

Big Tech pauses political spending after Capitol riot: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Airbnb are pausing spending

Shopify takes down Trump’s campaign store

Google pulls Parler from Play Store for fostering calls to violence

Apple removes Parler from the App Store

Parler CEO says even his lawyers are abandoning him

Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting

Parler posts, some with GPS data, have been archived by an independent researcher

Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet

Why the post-Capitol deplatforming was necessary

Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet

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