Federal court strikes down Trump’s coal-friendly EPA climate rules

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

A federal appeals court has struck down the Trump administration’s plan to relax restrictions on power plant greenhouse emissions. A US court of appeals said that the plan approved by the EPA in 2019 was a “mistaken reading of the Clean Air Act,” and...

YouTube extends Trump’s suspension ahead of inauguration day

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

YouTube will continue blocking Donald Trump’s official channel from uploading new videos and livestreams for a minimum of seven more days. The Google—owned video platform told CNBC and Bloomberg that it extended the channel’s suspension “[i]n light o...

Parler’s website is back up, but the service is still unavailable

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

One week after it lost access to Amazon’s hosting servers, Parler’s website is back online in limited form. Visit it today and you’ll find a message from CEO John Matze. “Hello world, is this thing on?” he says at the top of the page. “We will resolv...

YouTube will temporarily ban accounts for posting election fraud videos

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Engadget

After white nationalist rioters descended on the US Capitol yesterday, YouTube removed a video in which President Trump expressed support for the criminal behavior and lied about winning the 2020 presidential election. Today, YouTube is furthering it...

Snapchat locks Donald Trump’s account, as well

Posted on 07/01/2021 by Engadget

Facebook and Twitter aren’t the only social networks that blocked Donald Trump on their platform. Snap has revealed that it has also placed a restriction on the outgoing president’s account, preventing him from sharing anything on its app. Rachel Rac...

Twitter’s latest Trump labels say Biden won the election

Posted on 19/12/2020 by Engadget

Twitter’s election results labels are now decidedly more explicit. Variety found that Twitter is now labeling President Trump’s tweets (and presumably others) with a notice that “election officials have certified Joe Biden as the winner of the U.S. p...

Prosecutors say Trump’s Twitter was ‘hacked’ through simple password guess

Posted on 17/12/2020 by Engadget

The White House has denied that Donald Trump’s Twitter account was compromised on October 16th, but Dutch prosecutors have told a different story. The Guardian and the Washington Post report that the Netherlands’ public prosecutor’s office has determ...

US Commerce Department delays TikTok ban following court ruling

Posted on 12/11/2020 by Engadget

TikTok will live to see another day. According to The Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Commerce won’t push through an order that would have forced the platform to shut down today. The agency cited a preliminary injunction a judge in Philadel...

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