Keith Lee, an Air Force veteran and former police detective, spent the morning of Jan. 6 casing the entrances to the Capitol. In online videos,…
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Inside Twitter’s Decision to Cut Off Trump
SAN FRANCISCO — Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, was working remotely on a private island in French Polynesia frequented by celebrities escaping the paparazzi when…
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YouTube Suspends Trump’s Channel for at Least Seven Days
OAKLAND, Calif. — YouTube said on Tuesday that it had suspended President Trump’s channel over concern about “ongoing potential for violence,” the latest move by…
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In Georgia, Trump’s Attacks on Election Still Haunt Republicans
ATLANTA — The impeachment charge that House Democrats have filed against President Trump stems from his role in inciting a mob to attack the U.S.…
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Twitter Removes Over 70,000 QAnon Accounts
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter on Monday said that it had removed more than 70,000 accounts that promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory in recent days, as…
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How Parler, a Chosen App of Trump Fans, Became a Test of Free Speech
From the start, John Matze had positioned Parler as a “free speech” social network where people could mostly say whatever they wanted. It was a…
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The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
MOSCOW — In a cable to Washington in 1944, George F. Kennan, counselor at the United States Embassy in Stalin’s Moscow, warned of the occult…
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Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters
Amazon helps Parler operate by hosting its web traffic on its servers, according to a group of Amazon employees. Those employees and at least one…
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What Is Dlive? The Streaming Site Growing in Far-Right Users
But when a user changes the settings to allow “x-tagged” content to be viewed, streams with thousands of viewers discussing the riot at the Capitol…
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Antifa falsehood tops list of misinformation after Capitol rampage.
Jan. 8, 2021, 2:03 p.m. ET Jan. 8, 2021, 2:03 p.m. ET By Davey Alba Protesters surround the U.S. Capitol a rally by the president…
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