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'Talk About a Super Spreader': Analysis Finds Online Election Misinformation Fell by 73% After Trump Barred

"The findings, from Jan. 9 through Friday," reports the Washington Post, "highlight how falsehoods flow across social media sites—reinforcing and amplifying each other—and offer an early indication of how concerted actions against misinformation can make a difference." (Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)

Kicking Trump Off Social Media Won't Save Democracy, Say Antitrust Experts

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

"If these firms are so powerful that they can be the primary gatekeepers between a president and the public, then they have outgrown democratic control."

Big Tech Further Mutes President, Far Right Megaphone as Demands for Trump Removal Swell

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Donald Trump's Twitter account displayed on a mobile phone screen next to a vinyl doll which features the U.S. President Donald Trump, seen in front of the U.S. flag, on Saturday, 9 January 2021, in Dublin, Ireland.

Google yanked Parler from its app store Friday in light of "continued posting...

After Inciting Deadly Invasion of US Capitol, Twitter Permanently Suspends @realDonaldTrump

Common Dreams staff

After years of resisting suspension demands, the social media company said that...

Digital Rights Advocates Warn Trump's FCC Nominee—Who Backs Plan to Censor the Internet—Is 'Even Worse Than Ajit Pai'

Calling Trump's Repeated Election Lies 'Dangerous' to Democracy, Watchdogs Urge Twitter to Suspend His Account

Trump Roundly Ridiculed by Activists, Artists, and Others After Lying About Swing State Landslide

Jared Kushner Eviscerated as 'Face of White Privilege and Nepotism' After Mocking Racial Justice Protesters

Progressives Warn Against Accepting—Let Alone Applauding—Twitter Ban of "Garbage" NY Post Story

Study Warns Radicalized Right-Wingers Uniting Online—Many Inspired by Trump—Threaten Australian Democracy

'Existential Threat to Our Democracy': Trump Openly Telegraphs Intent (Once Again) to Delegitimize 2020 Election Results

'This Is a Flashing Red Light': Trump Triggers Alarm With Another Baseless Attack on Mail-In Voting

Employees Hold Virtual Walkout to Protest Facebook Inaction on Trump Posts 'Advocating Violence Against Black Demonstrators'

Trump Social Media Executive Order Denounced as Unlawful Ploy to 'Eviscerate Public Oversight of His Lies'

Though Busily Ranting on Twitter, Trump Completely Silent on Police Killing of George Floyd as Biden Demands Federal Probe

'Stop Tweeting. People Are Dying': Trump Condemned for Twitter Rampage Encouraging Right-Wing Protests

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And Behold, The People Rejoiced

The rapture was brief, but real. For 11 hallowed minutes Thursday evening, the Tweeter-in-Chief was silenced when his account went down, relaying a message that millions of people had prayed, hoped, nay yearned for: "@realDonaldTrump does not exist.” People "gathered in the Twitter streets to celebrate" the one brief shining moment - a gift, it turned out, from a defiant Twitter employee on his or her last day. To that bold patriot: Your Cross of Lenin is in the mail.