Twexit updates

A reader passes along this item, which led to his account being locked (for 30 days, apparently) on "hate speech" grounds by Facebook (I've redacted his name below):

The social media platforms warn viewers that the Fox News host’s interview with a Chinese virologist contained “false information” about Covid-19.

Parler joins those cheering yesterday’s federal court ruling in County of Butler v. Wolf, in which Judge William S. Stickman IV, in the words of The Volokh Conspiracy’s Eugene Volokh, “broadly struck down” as unconstitutional, Pennsylvania’s shutdown orders—including the state’s limits on nonreligious gatherings (“25 persons for indoor gatherings and 250 persons for outdoor gatherings”).

Twitter allowed the hashtag #RIPJKRowling to trend on the platform on Monday, despite the fact that the Harry Potter author is not dead.

The user data that the Facebook-owned messaging app [WhatsApp] shares publicly is allowing dozens of outside apps to track aspects of WhatsApp users' online activity — including whom they're likely talking to, when they're sleeping, and when they're using their devices. 

A top Facebook official tweeted Saturday it would delete posts alleging leftist organizations started wildfires in Oregon and other Western states after the FBI said arson reports are "conspiracy theories," reported RT News.

Twitter has censored another tweet from President Donald Trump instructing voters in North Carolina on avoiding losing their votes to fraud.

Facebook is finally researching how social media impacts elections - but won’t have results until 2021. This is not the first time they have drug their feet.

In recent years, social media platforms have been taking down online content more often and more quickly.

Facebook claims to be altruistic, a technological Philosopher King acting in our best interest, connecting us with others and enriching our lives.

Irish regulators have started an inquiry into Facebook’s movement of data on European users to the United States.

Facebook’s founding President Sean Parker is no fan of what the company he helped to create, has become. He’s been an outspoken critic since 2017, openly lamenting his role and calling out Mark Zuckerberg and his former colleagues for causing deliberate harm.

Parler, the People-driven social platform, today issued the following statement on Facebook’s blocking across its platform—within minutes of it going live—the informational website www.Erasebook.info.

The speech blackout for his defense threatens due process.

Parler, the People-driven social platform, today announced the launch of a new grassroots campaign aimed at publisher and data leviathan Facebook.