Category: Social Media

Facebook Removing All Content That Mentions ‘Stop the Steal’ Ahead of Inauguration Day

Facebook announced on Monday it is removing all content the contains the phrase “stop the steal” ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day on Jan. 20. The company issued a statement saying it was removing content containing the phrase that was used by supporters of President Donald Trump to question the integrity of the 2020…


Gab: Cloudflare Hasn’t Suspended Its Service After Users Report Errors

Gab, the social media platform, said that Cloudflare has not suspended its service after error messages were being returned for users. In a statement on Twitter on Monday, the company wrote it’s “not true” that Cloudflare suspended its service, adding that the company is “doing some backend work” and will “be back up shortly.” “Please…


Secret Service Investigating Death Threats Against Mike Pence

The U.S. Secret Service is reportedly investigating alleged death threats directed at Vice President Mike Pence. President Donald Trump has been completely de-platformed from Twitter for two posts that the tech giant cited to justify the censorship. The first post was: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA…


Secret Service Says It’s ‘Aware’ of Death Threats Made Against Pence

The U.S. Secret Service said it is aware of death threats directed at Vice President Mike Pence. “We are aware of the comments and take all threats against our protectees seriously,” a Secret Service spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email on Monday. After President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter on Jan. 8,…


Twitter Shares Drop by 12 Percent After Company Banned Trump

Shares of Twitter on Monday dropped 12 percent, after the company banned President Donald Trump and a slew of other conservatives. Shares dropped after the market opened on Monday, reaching a low of $45.17. Twitter shares closed at $51.48 on Jan. 8. Twitter said it removed Trump’s account on Friday because some of his recent…


Sen. James Lankford: Big Tech Is Trying to Shut Down Conservative Voices

Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said on Sunday that Big Tech’s recent actions, with Apple suspending Parler and the removal of the accounts of President Donald Trump and other conservatives from their platforms, show the tech giants do not want Americans to have a dialogue with one other. “This has moved from ‘Hey, I don’t like…


Parler CEO: Attorneys Drop Company as Website Goes Offline

Parler’s website is offline on Monday after Amazon, Apple, Google, and a slew of other companies took action against the social media platform. Users trying to access Parler were notified that the site couldn’t be reached. Parler CEO John Matze said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that companies had colluded “to make sure that at…


Twitter Suspends Judicial Watch Tom Fitton’s Account as Big Tech Ramp Up Content Policing

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton said Twitter had suspended his account for at least seven days for allegedly violating the platform’s rules. Fitton said he was locked out of his account for posting “#Hydroxychloroquine is a safe drug,” a topic he has been posting on since September. He said at that time, Twitter “specifically…


Social Media Post Offering Presidential Pardon to Anyone Involved in Capitol Breach Is Fake: DOJ

The Justice Department (DOJ) said on Saturday that a social media post offering a presidential pardon to those involved in the breach of the U.S. Capitol is fake. The post that the department deemed fake appears to have originated from a Parler account claiming to be the official social media page of Acting Pardon Attorney…


DOJ Says Social Media Offer of Pardons for Capitol Breach Is Fake

A social media post purportedly from a top Justice Department (DOJ) official floating presidential pardons to those involved in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol is fake, the  department said on Jan. 9. The post appears to have originated from a Parler account claiming to be the official social media page of Acting…