WASHINGTON — With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality on Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he ll
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Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next?
Tech giants must not treat their crackdown on the president’s social accounts as an edge case. The social web should be different now.
January 9, 2021
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Updated at 10:59 a.m. ET on January 11, 2021.
It happened slowly, and then all at once. After years of sparring, the internet’s most powerful moderators deplatformed their most famous troll: the president of the United States. Facebook has blocked Donald Trump’s account indefinitely. So have Snapchat, Twitch, Shopify; even one of the Trump campaign’s email providers has cut it off. At the time of writing, Trump still has his YouTube channel, but the company says it is accelerating its enforcement action. It was a Friday Night Massacre of platform bans.
Lehigh University rescinds Trump s honorary degree after Capitol assault By Sophie Lewis Twitter bans Trump s personal account
Lehigh University has rescinded the honorary degree it awarded to President Donald Trump more than 30 years ago. The announcement came two days after the president encouraged a mob of his supporters who stormed the Capitol, and as lawmakers pushed for his ouster. In a special session Thursday of the Executive Committee of the Lehigh University Board of Trustees, the members voted to rescind and revoke the honorary degree granted to Donald J. Trump in 1988, Lehigh, a private university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, announced in a brief statement Friday. The full Board of Trustees affirmed the decision today.