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Amazon, Tech Companies Drop Parler
Parler was forced offline this week after Amazon shut off its web-hosting services to the controversial social media platform. Google and Apple also dropped Parler from their app stores over the weekend. In announcing the decision, Amazon cited Parler s inadequate processes for moderating content that encourages and incites violence, which violates Amazon s terms of service. Parler, the self-described free speech social media platform popular among the far-right, saw a significant increase in users last week after Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms banned President Trump. Parler has loudly criticized Amazon s decision to suspend its web-hosting services, saying that the decision was made for political and anti-competitive reasons.
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China and Russia have been working together on COVID-19 vaccine research as part of their declared Science and Technology Innovation Year.
But that joint effort is a byproduct of other collaborations that have raised eyebrows in Washington including on President Trump’s intelligence advisory board. To see two of your biggest adversaries all of a sudden cooperating, linking arms and working together, that s very concerning to us, says Kevin Hulbert.
Some national security experts fear an alliance could dull U.S. influence in negotiations and increase surveillance globally. That’s after the countries last month conducted their second joint air patrol over the Pacific and they’ve participated in numerous joint military exercises in recent years.
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Many are taking their cues from the fact that the president still has not conceded.
A vast swath of the president’s diehard base has disregarded Trump’s remarks, where he has instructed his followers to not engage in political violence. | Alex Brandon/AP Photo
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President Donald Trump has instructed his followers to not engage in political violence following the deadly riots on the Capitol on Jan 6. But the video in which he made the plea has barely made a dent in the groundswell of extremism that was seen last week and has proliferated online since.
A vast swath of the president’s diehard base in MAGA Nation the conspiracy theorists, the militia members, and the followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory has disregarded Trump’s Wednesday remarks. Instead, they are dissecting his phrases and using those cues as rallying cries, doubling down on their plans to keep the MAGA movement going after Trump leaves the White House.