When it initiated the suspension in January, Facebook declared Trump’s tweets, posted before his supporters rioted at the US Capitol, “a severe violation of our rules.” The term of the suspension was announced by Facebook on Friday. Earlier, the company’s oversight board – a body convened by Facebook to weigh …
Read More »Facebook to stop exempting politicians from censorship, building on Trump ban – reports
Facebook – which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp – will treat accounts of politicians and public figures just like everyone else’s, and disclose when special newsworthiness exemption gets invoked to shield them from having “violating” content deleted, The Verge reported on Thursday. The Verge cited “two people familiar with the …
Read More »‘Doesn’t want America TO BE A NATION at all’: Trump says Biden wants migrants to swamp US by ending ‘Reman in Mexico’ rule
“Joe Biden is the first American president who doesn’t want America to be a nation at all,” Trump said in a scorching statement issued on Wednesday. He added, “Our country is being destroyed before our very eyes.” The statement came one day after the Biden administration formally ended the Trump-era …
Read More »Trump expects to get reinstated as president by August, New York Times’ Maggie Haberman claims, sparking storm
“Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August,” claimed Haberman on Twitter Tuesday, adding that she was “simply sharing the information.” After another user questioned whether Haberman was referring to “the presidency,” she confirmed. Though many social …
Read More »Over 70% of Republicans blame Capitol riot on ‘left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad’ – poll
In the YouGov/Yahoo poll, Republicans and Democrats painted strikingly different pictures of the Capitol riot, which ultimately left five dead in their wake, including one officer. While over 80% of Democrats blame Trump supporters at the Capitol, blame Trump himself, or blame Republicans promoting the idea that the presidential election …
Read More »Having shut down Trump’s Covid-19 origin probe, Biden now entrusts it to same spies who gave us ‘Russiagate’
In a statement released on Wednesday, President Biden said he had ordered the US spies in March to give him a report on the origins of the virus, and gave them 90 days to provide a “definitive conclusion.” Within minutes, the compliant corporate media acknowledged their marching orders, putting “redouble …
Read More »‘Now everyone agrees I was right’: Trump trolls critics after Wuhan lab theory of Covid-19 origin becomes mainstream
“Now everybody is agreeing that I was right when I very early on called Wuhan as the source of [Covid]-19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus,” Trump posted on his Desk blog on Tuesday. “To me it was obvious from the beginning but I was badly criticized, as usual. …
Read More »Trump DC hotel almost DOUBLED prices as ‘security tactic’ to prevent QAnon bookings – leaked documents
In February, news outlets reported that rooms at the hotel had shot up in price for the 3rd and 4th of March – when supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory thought former President Trump would reclaim the White House from President Joe Biden, citing the old, replaced tradition of presidents …
Read More »‘Unfairly attacked by corrupt political system’: Trump hits back after NY AG launches criminal investigation into family business
“There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime. But, make no mistake, that is exactly what is happening here,” Trump said in a lengthy written statement on Wednesday. The former Republican leader said he found out via “leaks in the mainstream media” …
Read More »New York AG says Trump Organization under active criminal investigation
“We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the Organization is no longer purely civil in nature,” a spokesperson for James’ office, Fabien Levy, said in a statement to media outlets on Tuesday. We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the …
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