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After Twitter Suspended His Account, Facebook Is Indefinitely Banning Donald Trump From Posting

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Facebook Bans Donald Trump's Account From Posting For 30 Days

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After all of the racist and outright crazy sh*t that he has said on Twitter that many have warned would eventually lead to yesterday’s bootleg coup, social media companies have said enough.

With only 14 days remaining in his nightmare term, Donald Trump, who has been pushing the norms to the limit, has finally done something that both Democrats and a sizeable number of Republicans can agree was absolutely crazy. After urging a mob of his loyal pro-Trump terrorists to storm the U.S. Capitol Building putting the lives of Congress members, Capitol Police, and his own Vice President in danger, Twitter took the unprecedented act to suspend the inciter-in-chief’s account after he continued to spew false information breaking Twitters Rules.

In violation of those rules, Twitter announced that Trump’s account was locked for 12-hours preventing him from spewing any more dangerous falsehoods.

Initially, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube took similar steps by removing a video that Trump shared calling for the rioters and insurrectionists that he said he “loved” to stand down and go home. He also continued to spew the ridiculously false notion that the November presidential election was “stolen” from him and that he would never “stop fighting.”

Mark Zuckerberg, who has been reluctant to put a muzzle on the lame-duck president, has finally done the right thing and announced today that his company, Facebook, will ban Trump for 30-days, effectively the rest of his term. In a post on his Facebook page, he announced:

The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.
His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect — and likely their intent — would be to provoke further violence.
Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.
Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.
We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely, and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.

While some are applauding the decision, many say this decision has come a tad bit too late based on what transpired on Wednesday (Jan.6). It could help keep Trump from saying anything else crazy in his remaining 13 days as Democrats and a growing number of Republicans call for the president to be removed immediately either by invoking the 25th amendment or impeachment.

After this failed coup attempt, we will take the social media silence from Trump, who can technically Tweet again but hasn’t said a peep since his account was suspended.

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Boosie Wants to Sue Mark Zuckerberg for $20 Million Over Instagram Ban

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Looks like Boosie is still hot over his Instagram ban from earlier this year.

2020 has felt like a ridiculously long year, so to recap, Boosie hosted his own IG live shows where he let would different people join in. Sometimes, things got a little X rated and would be shut down by Instagram. Boosie then started to promote his OnlyFans through his Instagram, which led to his account being deactivated.

In a recent interview with Vlad, Boosie claims that his ban from IG took a toll on his business ventures. “[Zuckerberg] made some of my business ventures go down, so I’m suing him now. I’m filing a lawsuit against him now,” he said. “… He stopped me off Instagram and he didn’t put me back on Instagram. And that’s affecting my business.”

He also claims that he is being discriminated against, arguing that there have been other IG users that have done more inappropriate things than him on their IG’s and have gotten their pages back with full functionality.

“This is the first time my Instagram has ever been [taken] from me,” he said. “So you can give other 2 million people their Instagram back for derogatory things they did? … This is discrimination. Something is wrong. Somebody must be mad ’cause I said their name wrong and they’re trying to chastise me.”

He also added that people around him have been telling him that what they are doing is racist.  “And my Black people are starting to tell me, ‘Boosie, this man is a racist. He knows you affect the Black community and make them smile every morning? Why is he not giving you your page back? … He might be trying to stop us from smiling’ … You’re going too far.”

A few months ago, Boosie put up on his new IG page a video of him pleading with Mark Zuckerberg, asking him to give him his page back. He even offered the Facebook CEO $100,000. Since then, that number has gone up.

“I’m not suing him for no $300 billion. I’m only suing him for $20 million. It’s what has affected me, in this time,” Boosie said.

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Facebook Audits Itself and Catches a Civil Rights Fade

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On Wednesday, Facebook released the results of a two-year long audit and they were not good.

According to the report, the company made decisions that “represent significant setbacks for civil rights.”

Carried out by civil rights attorney Laura W. Murphy, and the law firm Relman Colfax, the team conducted interviews with more than 100 civil rights organizations.

It resulted in a nearly 90-page report that does not portray a flattering image for the social media behemoth.

“While the audit process has been meaningful, and has led to some significant improvements in the platform, we have also watched the company make painful decisions over the last nine months with real world consequences that are serious setbacks for civil rights,” reads the report.

At the start of the process, there wasn’t any agreement to release the results publicly and Facebook’s executives “actively engaged” with the audit process.

However, the report says Facebook executives did change their tune later in response to pressure from activists and became more involved.

COO Sheryl Sandberg is credited for developing relationships with civil rights leaders. In addition, she transitioned into a “point person for this work.”

When Civil Right & Social Media Collide

The civil rights report does highlight some positive changes and advancements Facebook has made since the audit began in 2018.

It credits the company for its “robust census interference policy” designed to curb disinformation about the 2020 census. In addition, it mentions specific platform changes such as Facebook’s ban of white supremacist and white nationalist content on the platform.

“This report outlines a number of positive and consequential steps that the company has taken, but at this point in history, the Auditors are concerned that those gains could be obscured by the vexing and heartbreaking decisions Facebook has made that represent significant setbacks for civil rights.”

The report specifically mentions controversial Facebook posts published by President Donald Trump that the company let stand on its platform.

Two of the Trump posts mentioned “facilitated voter suppression” says the report, a finding that’s in line with Trump’s repeated spread of misinformation on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots.

Facebook defended its decision to keep those particular posts up. However, the report states that the civil rights auditors told Facebook that the posts broke the platform’s own policies.

Another Facebook post the report singles out has to do with Trump’s threat to protesters in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

As Black Lives Matter protests spread throughout the country, the President of the United States warned that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

The audit found that this post violated Facebook’s violence and hate speech policies. Still, Facebook let the post remain and defended the decision.

“These decisions exposed a major hole in Facebook’s understanding and application of civil rights,” states the report. It calls out Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, by pointing out that these policy decisions were made “at the highest level.”

Facebook’s Complicity

Facebook has faced criticism for the role it played in the 2016 U.S. election. Particularly when discussing Russian meddling.

Facebook commissioned two independent audits in order to address a few of the critiques.

It was intended to address perceived anti-conservative bias and civil rights abuses. They hired Republicans to executive roles within the company and made other changes to the platform. Now, conservative-leaning Facebook publishers are flourishing on the social network.

One change the company made led to the demise of its trending news feature. Conservatives claimed that was the source of the perceived bias. The feature relied upon human content curators to promote popular links and topics on the website.

However, overall the audit found that Facebook has failed to protect civil rights on a range of issues. Voter suppression, hate speech, all are detailed in the report.

Facebook is facing a massive advertiser boycott. Organized by civil rights groups, the main issue is hate speech used on the platform. Some of these organizations met recently with the company, a day before the audit was published.

Many have criticized the meeting as nothing more than a PR stunt.

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Joe Biden & Bernie Sanders joins Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Mark Zuckerberg, Ava Duvernay and Janet Jackson at D-Nice’s Homeschoolin’ Virtual Party

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While the world is cocooned up in their homes, many of them on lockdown, DJ D-Nice has been working to bring people together through a free concert!

Some of the special guests on his Saturday offering were Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Ava Duvernary and Janet Jackson. Black politicians like Mayor Ras Baraka (NWK), Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (ATL), Public Advocate Juumane Williams (NYC) from Generation X jumped the “Homeschoolin’: Social Distancing Dance Party” and danced with their constituents. However, when former Vice President Joe Biden and then Senator Bernie Sanders popped in… the crowd went wild.

Perhaps, they were pandering to the over 100K people jamming in harmony to the BDP alum’s spinning of James Brown and Rihanna hottest tunes.

Whatever the reason, it proved once again the power that Hip-Hop yields.

Let’s make sure we take that power to the voting booths or the absentee ballots this November… regardless of who the candidate is.

A partial list of others in the party are as follows:

Michelle Obama, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Janet Jackson, Queen Latifah, Oprah Winfrey, DJ Khaled, Mark Zuckerberg, Mike Tyson, Stevie Wonder, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Ava Duvernay, Gayle King, Lenny Kravitz, Rihanna, A-Rod, J-Lo, Kevin Hart, Elizabeth Warren, Tiffany Haddish, Charlamagne tha God, Toni Braxton, Usher Raymond, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Quincy Jones, Nia Long, Snoop Dog, Janelle Monae, Maxwell, Dr. Jay, Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union, Taraji P. Henson, Doug E. Fresh, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Lil Rel, Kamala Harris, Stacy Abrams, Michael Eric Dyson, Magic Johnson, Stephanie Mills, Sterling K. Brown, Erick Sermon, Don Lemon, Victor Cruz, Diddy, Angela Bassett, Tracee Ellis Ross, George Clinton, Black Thought, Quest Love, T- Pain, Tyrese Gibson, Donnie Walberg, Justin Timberland, Joe Fatone, Jason Binn, Kelly Rowland, Ashanti, Yvette Clarke, Corey Booker, Julian Castro, Ruth Carter, Lennox Lewis, Slick Rick, Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat, Jay Electronica, Kim Fields, Kym Whitley, Letoya Luckett, Omari Hardwick, June Ambrose, Sheri Riley, Treach, Vin Rock, Missy Elliot, Ellen Degeneres, Marsai Martin, Verdin White from Earth, Wind and Fire, Estelle, Angela Rye, Buju Banton, Lil Jon, Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Michael Bivins, Ronnie Devoe, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell, Pebbles, L.A. Reid, Bethann Hardison, Kadeem Hardison, Clark Kent, Slick Rick, Naomi Campbell, Odell Beckham, Jr., Tarana Burke, Deborah Cox, Robi Reed, Rosario Dawson, Tamar Braxton, Rashaan Patterson, AJ Johnson, Jazmine Sullivan, Anthony Hamilton, Jamie Foxx, Chaka Khan, Lena Waithe, Keri Hilson, Lil’ Kim, PartyNexxtDoor, Patti Labelle, Sheila E, Dallas Austin, Valerie Jarrett, Tina Lawson, Eric Sermon, Cam’ron, Jim Jones, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Roland Martin, Will Packard, Vanessa Williams, Tank, Timbaland, Hakim Greene, Debra Lee, Mary J. Blige, India Arie, E-40, Russell Simmons, and more…

The attendees show how diverse the crowd was, ranging from musicians, politicians, and influencers. Sororities, Fraternities, HBCUs and just all-around music lovers flooded the comment sections with stars to salute the health care workers still looking out for those affected by the COVID-19 disease that has afflicted the world.

He also did several tributes to Stevie, Janet, Patti, and Chaka. However, it was a double dose tribute to Kenny Rogers that touched many. Rogers transitioned earlier in the day.

There will also be another one that raises money for those hurting during this time. Rap music and those who love will heal the world… best believe it.

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Facebook’s Delayed Clear History Privacy Tool Slated To Launch Later This Year

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Facebook is trying desperately to earn back the trust of its users it took for granted by mishandling their data due to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In response to its poor behavior, the social media giant promised to release a Clear History Tool that would wipe away information that is collected from third-party apps, that is supposed to arrive later this year.

Facebook promised users the tool which was just an idea at that point, would have been released back in May of last year according to a BuzzFeed News report about the Clear History Tool’s troubled development. Mark Zuckerberg in a note posted on his Facebook page described the app as a step forward in repairing the company’s image, and it would mainly work like clearing your internet browser’s history.

“In your web browser, you have a simple way to clear your cookies and history. The idea is a lot of sites need cookies to work, but you should still be able to flush your history whenever you want. We’re building a version of this for Facebook too. It will be a simple control to clear your browsing history on Facebook — what you’ve clicked on, websites you’ve visited, and so on,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook note posted to his personal page. “We’re starting with something a lot of people have asked about recently: the information we see from websites and apps that use Facebook’s ads and analytics tools.”

There are no details as to how exactly the tool will work or how it will look, but in a statement to BuzzFeed News, Facebook admits to the delay stating, “We want to make sure this works the way it should for everyone on Facebook, which is taking longer than expected.”

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Logging Out: Co-Founders of Instagram Leaving Company

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Silicon Valley was rocked yesterday (Sept.24) with the news of Instagram’s co-founders officially stepping down from the popular photo-sharing app.

You can now add Instagram’s Chief Executive Officer Kevin Systrom and Chief Technical Officer Mike Krieger to the growing list of CEOs leaving their companies after Facebook purchased them. The move comes after Bloomberg reported tension between the two men and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Systrom confirmed their exit from Instagram in a statement revealing “we’re planning on leaving Instagram to explore our curiosity and creativity again.”

“Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team. We’ve grown from 13 people to over a thousand with offices around the world, all while building products used and loved by a community of over one billion. We’re now ready for our next chapter.”

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Systrom and Krieger join Jan Koum, the founder of the messaging tool WhatsApp who also left the company earlier this year after being acquired by Facebook. Koum made his exit amid concerns about the amount of data the social media platform was collecting from users.

Will be interesting to see the direction Instagram goes with their departures.

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