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(Photo : Carl Court/Getty Images) A close-up view of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a smart phone on May 25, 2017 in London, England. Telegram and the calls of violence on it became a sticking point for former U.S. ambassador Marc Ginsburg who filed a lawsuit against Apple for hosting the messaging app on its App Store. Ginsburg claimed that he experiences emotional distress over Apple continuing to have Telegram under its wing, as stated in the lawsuit, reported Mashable. Ginsburg referred to the increasing rate of calls for violence seen on Telegram s chat service, as Endgadget reported. Ginsburg filed the lawsuit alongside his anti-extremism advocacy group, The Coalition for a Safer Web.
Parler CEO John Matze said that the social media platform might never return online after being cut off by major service providers following the accusations that the app failed to remove violent content.
(Photo : Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images) A Donald Trump supporter holds a Stop the Steal sign while gathering on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol to protest the election on January 6, 2021 in Denver, Colorado. Facebook announced on Monday that it would start removing content with the phrase stop the steal ahead of President-elect Joe Biden s inauguration on January 20. Facebook said it made the decision in light of the riot in the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday. It added that the phrase stop the steal violated the company s policy against coordinating harm, reported Daily Wire. It can be recalled that a Stop the Steal group was also removed from Facebook last November. The company confirmed that it continues to remove pages and events that they believe violate their policies, including calls for violence.
Financial technology company and platform, Stripe, decided to stop processing payments for the Trump campaign website after the Capitol siege on Wednesday.
Rep. Devin Nunes California Rep. Devin Nunes said on Sunday that federal authorities should start an investigation on Apple, Amazon and Google for racketeering after the tech companies imposed a Parler ban. The Parler ban was done by the tech giants after they said the app, which is popular among right-wing users, was not doing enough to moderate talks about violence, reported Newsmax. Prior to the Parler ban, the social network branded itself as a free speech app in place of Twitter and Facebook. Since Amazon cut ties with them, Parler will be temporarily down until a new hosting service takes them in, reported BBC.