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House Democrats call for accountability while Republicans call for unity and rail against 'cancel culture' in impeachment debateJanuary 13, 2021 at 5:27 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the "incitement of insurrection" in the wake of last week's deadly Capitol siege.
During the House debate, Democrats argued Trump must be held accountable for provoking the violent mob, while Republicans called for "unity and healing" and defended the president's rhetoric and election lies.
Trump is the first president in American history to be impeached twice. His impeachment is also the most bipartis...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, Texas, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky 52 people like this. Like House members engage in a fiery debate over impeaching Trump for inciting an insurrection at the CapitolJanuary 13, 2021 at 3:59 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald Trump on Wednesday for the "incitement of insurrection" in the wake of last week's deadly Capitol siege.
During the House debate, Democrats argued Trump must be held accountable for provoking the violent mob, while Republicans called for "unity and healing" and defended the president's rhetoric and election lies.
Trump is the first president in American history to be impeached twice. His impeachment is also the most bipartis...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, Texas, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky 94 people like this. Like The House prepares to impeach the president after a fiery debate and as Trump is more isolated than everJanuary 13, 2021 at 3:59 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
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The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate 131 people like this. Like Democratic Rep. Cori Bush makes a fiery speech calling to impeach 'the white supremacist in chief'January 13, 2021 at 3:05 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
Scroll down to watch the livestream and follow Insider's live coverage of the historic event.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate 66 people like this. Like LIVE: House minority leader Kevin McCarthy says Trump 'bears responsibility' for the Capitol siege and shoots down antifa conspiracy theoriesJanuary 13, 2021 at 1:53 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
Scroll down to watch the livestream and follow Insider's live coverage of the historic event.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Florida, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate 54 people like this. Like LIVE: Rep. Cedric Richmond says some Republicans are 'co-conspirators' in the insurrection and tells them to 'man up, woman up,' and defend the ConstitutionJanuary 13, 2021 at 1:08 PM Reuters
The House of Representatives is poised to impeach President Donald Trump for the second time for "incitement of insurrection" following last week's deadly Capitol siege.
Debate over the article of impeachment began shortly after 9 a.m. ET and can be watched online on C-SPAN, YouTube, and the House's official website.
Scroll down to watch the livestream and follow Insider's live coverage of the historic event.
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
The House of Represe...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Politics, New York, News, Instagram, Maryland, Supreme Court, Congress, California, Washington, Kentucky, Senate, White House 90 people like this. Like Trump claims people think his rally that incited the deadly Capitol riot was 'totally appropriate'January 12, 2021 at 11:06 AM US President Donald Trump.
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Speaking publicly for the first time on Tuesday, President Donald Trump told reporters that "people" believe a speech he gave that incited last week's deadly Capitol insurrection was "totally appropriate."
He also said the push to impeach him over his incitement of the insurrection was "absolutely ridiculous," adding that there was "tremendous anger" over it, though he didn't specify who was angry.
The president has lost hi...Tags: Apple, Google, Facebook, Politics, News, Instagram, Congress, Senate, White House, US, Trends, House, House Of Representatives, Portland, Republican, Seattle 109 people like this. Like Social platforms flex their power, lock down Trump accountsJanuary 7, 2021 at 1:53 PM By DAVID KLEPPER and MATT O’BRIEN
After years of treating President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram are silencing his social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, which many called justified following Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, is also a reminder of the enormous power that social-media platforms can exercise when they choose.
Facebook and Instagram said Thursday they will bar Trump from posting at least until t...Tags: Google, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Business, Technology, Media, Instagram, Youtube, White House, Uncategorized, Sport, Joe Biden, Ap, Soccer, Selena Gomez, Republican 10 people like this. Like Facebook reportedly exempted Trump's family and allies from its misinformation rules to avoid accusations of anti-conservative biasNovember 2, 2020 at 5:23 AM Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (left) and President Donald Trump.
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Facebook has repeatedly let President Donald Trump's family members and allies off the hook for breaking its policies, the Washington Post reports.
Current and former Facebook employees said the company held off taking action because it feared accusations of anti-conservative bias.
Two company sources told the Post that Facebook removed a strike from Donald Trump Jr's Instagram account, which ...Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Post, Instagram, Washington Post, Trends, Republican, Donald Trump, Wall Street Journal, Trump, Donald Trump Jr, America First Action, Isobel Asher Hamilton, Reuters Drew Angerer Getty Images Facebook, Facebook page of America First Action, Republicans Facebook 79 people like this. Like Facebook giving preferential treatment to pro-Trump users, conservatives: ReportNovember 2, 2020 at 5:43 AM Facebook let associates of US president Donald Trump, including his son Donald Trump Jr., post misinformation on its platform during the final months of the presidential election campaign, and did not take proportionate action against these users to avoid being accused of “anti-conservative” bias, reported the Washington Post. The revelations come after months of accusations by Republican leadership that Facebook is biased against their party, and only days after these accusations were aired in ...Tags: Travel, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter, Post, New York Post, News, Instagram, Washington Post, Senate, India, BJP, Narendra Modi, US, Joe Biden, US Senate 11 people like this. Like Trump's campaign nearly went broke for the 2020 homestretch, insiders sayOctober 18, 2020 at 11:29 AM Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of Business Insider stories from co-Editor in Chief Matt Turner. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Sunday.Read on for the inside story on the Trump campaign's finances, Anand Giridharadas lambasting corporate board members, and a new threat to the management consulting industry.
US President Donald Trump looks on as he departs a rally at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio on September 21, 2020.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Ge...Tags: Amazon, Politics, New York, Instagram, New York City, US, Trends, Gop, Bill Gates, Citigroup, Republican, Giuliani, Donald Trump, Goldman, Coinbase, Expedia 89 people like this. Like Daily Crunch: Big tech responds to antitrust reportOctober 7, 2020 at 6:09 PM The major tech platforms push back against the House antitrust report, Google Assistant gets a “guest” mode and we interview a freshly minted Nobel laureate. This is your Daily Crunch for October 7, 2020.
The big story: Big tech responds to antitrust report
The House Judiciary Committee released its tech antitrust report late yesterday, concluding that the big tech platforms should face additional regulation. Recommendations include creating new separations to prevent dominant platforms from ...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Tech, Policy, House, Republican, Doordash, House Judiciary Committee, Google Amazon, Jennifer Doudna, US China, Substack, Shogun 66 people like this. Like Democrats and Republicans are tussling over whether big tech should be broken up, according to a leaked GOP memoOctober 6, 2020 at 6:14 AM US Rep. David Cicilline, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law.
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A House of Representatives subcommittee on antitrust is getting ready to publish a report on Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google following a year-long investigation.
It looks like Democrat and Republican lawmakers are still tussling about how hard to hit Big Tech firms.
According to a leaked memo from Republican member Ken Buck, draft r...Tags: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Politico, US, Trends, Bloomberg, Gop, Democrat, Republican, Breakup, Cnbc, Buck, House Judiciary Subcommittee 140 people like this. Like Rising calls to ban TikTok in the US are great news for homegrown tech giants like Facebook that would prefer less competition and regulatory scrutiny (FB, GOOG, AMZN)July 11, 2020 at 8:50 AM The US government is considering banning TikTok as nationalist "security" concerns about the Chinese app grow.
That's great news for American tech companies like Facebook.
In recent years, there has been increased political and regulatory scrutiny of the American tech giants.
But the companies are able to leverage concerns about foreign tech's influence to ward off unwanted regulation.
In 2019, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that "the future of the global internet" is at stake.
On Friday...Tags: Amazon, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram, White House, China, US, America, Trends, Republican, Huawei, Signal, Wells Fargo, Zuckerberg, Trump, Facebook In 91 people like this. Like ‘This Was a Mistake’: Not All of Trump World Is Pleased With the President Commuting Roger Stone’s SentenceJuly 10, 2020 at 8:04 PM Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant convicted of lying to Congress about his connection to WikiLeaks and intimidating another witness to do the same, had his sentence commuted by President Trump on Friday—just a few days before he was set to report to jail.President Trump had raised the possibility of clemency almost immediately after Stone, 67, was convicted last November, often complaining—without evidence—that Stone had been treated poorly by law enforcement or targeted unfairly.In a stat...Tags: Facebook, News, Instagram, Congress, Washington, White House, Russia, America, Hillary Clinton, United States, New York Times, Julian Assange, Department Of Justice, Republican, Wikileaks, Biden 142 people like this. Like Trump Commutes Roger Stone’s Sentence Days Before PrisonJuly 10, 2020 at 8:04 PM Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant convicted of lying to Congress about his connection to WikiLeaks and intimidating another witness to do the same, has his sentence commuted by President Trump on Friday—just a few days before he was set to report to jail.President Trump had raised the possibility of clemency almost immediately after Stone, 67, was convicted last November, often complaining—without evidence—that Stone had been treated poorly by law enforcement or targeted unfairly .As recen...Tags: Facebook, Politics, News, Instagram, Obama, Congress, Washington, White House, Russia, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, Department Of Justice, Republican, Wikileaks, Biden, House Intelligence Committee 2 people like this. Like QAnoner Beats Incumbent GOP Rep In Primary, Adding To Would-Be QAnon CaucusJuly 1, 2020 at 1:40 PM Appearing on the web show “Steel Truth” in mid-May, Republican congressional candidate Lauren Boebert took a deep breath, adjusted her glasses, and opened up about QAnon.
“Honestly, everything that I’ve heard of Q, I hope that this is real,” Boebert said. “Because it only means that America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values. And that’s what I am for.”
Boebert on Tuesday night defeated a five-term, Trump-endorsed Republican congressman ...Tags: John Lewis, News, Instagram, Colorado, America, Georgia, Gop, House Of Representatives, Republican, Air Force, Donald Trump, Patterson, Trump, Jim Jordan, Perkins, Oval Office 104 people like this. Like Meet the self-proclaimed 'billionaire heiress,' bikini enthusiast, and GOP crusader whose dad spied on her date using a controversial facial-recognition appMarch 5, 2020 at 3:14 PM New York grocery billionaire John Catsimatidis used controversial facial-recognition software created by Clearview AI to identify a man his daughter went on a date with.
Andrea Catsimatidis is a "billionaire heiress," "business bombshell," and chair of the Manhattan Republican Party, according to her Instagram account.
Catsimatidis is the daughter of John Catsimatidis, the owner of New York City supermarket chain Gristedes Foods. Her father has a net worth of $3.3 billion, according to Forbes...Tags: New York, Instagram, New York City, Trends, Walmart, Cnn, Gop, Hillary Clinton, Nba, Manhattan, John, The New York Times, John Mccain, John Kerry, Fifth Avenue, Republican 74 people like this. Like Whatever happened to Nick Sauer, the GOP lawmaker caught catfishing with his ex-girlfriend’s nudes?February 28, 2020 at 11:40 AM Once upon a time, Nick Sauer was thought to be a rising star in the Republican Party. In 2016, at the age of 34, he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. After being sworn in, he joined the House Sexual Discrimination and Harassment Task Force, where he developed a reputation for his charming personality and for wearing well-tailored Tom Ford suits. His colleagues liked him. His constituents liked him. And he planned to run for re-election.
Then it all came crashing down.
In Aug...Tags: Facebook, Sex Scandal, Politics, Instagram, Lifestyle, Gop, Republican Party, Republican, Illinois, Tom Ford, NICK, Ad Friendly, Queerty, Kelly, Allen, Chicago Police Department 112 people like this. Like Ilhan Omar’s Challenger Is Literally on the Run From the LawFebruary 21, 2020 at 4:35 AM It’s not unheard-of for members of Congress to resign their seats because of serious legal trouble. Now Republican House candidate Danielle Stella is trying to achieve the inverse: getting elected to Congress while being wanted by the law. Stella, one of the five Republicans competing for the right to take on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in November, has been wanted for months on an arrest warrant for felony shoplifting. Even while facing arrest, though, she’s managed to achieve a respectable fundrais...Tags: Facebook, News, Instagram, Minneapolis, Congress, House, Guardian, Republican, Johnson, Stella, Trump, Omar, Hennepin County, Osceola, Ilhan Omar, Osceola Wisconsin 112 people like this. Like This Week in Photography: The early 70’sOctober 18, 2019 at 9:58 AM
Part 1: The Intro
It’s tempting to glorify the past.
(Mighty tempting.)
I wrote recently, in my eulogy to Robert Frank, that MAGA is really one more expression of the desire to return to the 1950’s.
It’s easy to mock that desire, (and I did,) because it so easily connects to a whiter, more racist and sexist America.
If we were to try to understand it on less nefarious terms, we might agree people associate the 50’s with American dominance, and a more naive, safer, more small-town version of ou...Tags: Photography, Florida, Navy, California, Berlin Wall, Americas, America, Atlanta, Walmart, Clint Eastwood, New Orleans, Silicon Valley, Harry, Steve McQueen, Bill, West Coast The party’s over and everyone is invited!January 27, 2019 at 10:00 AM As every high schooler knows, when Mom and Dad are away it’s time to play! Of course, in the age of Twitter and Instagram, adult-free house parties can go viral and the next thing you know Dad’s La-Z-Boy is floating in the swimming pool and two Sheriff’s choppers are hovering overhead. There is such a thing as too much freedom.
The 2020 rugby scrum for the Democratic Party presidential nomination may finally confirm what our Founding Father’s feared most; there may be such a thing as too much de...Tags: New York, Texas, Instagram, Vladimir Putin, Obama, California, Opinion, West Virginia, Barack Obama, Sport, Joe Biden, Tom Hanks, Soccer, Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire, Ben Franklin 26 people like this. Like Donald Trump to deliver TV address to nation and visit US-Mexico border as shutdown stand-off intensifiesJanuary 7, 2019 at 3:24 PM Donald Trump will address the nation on Tuesday and visit the US-Mexico border on Thursday to highlight his demands for a border wall as the government remains partially shut down. Newly empowered Democrats in the House of Representatives are stepping up pressure on Mr Trump and Republican lawmakers to reopen the government, which has been closed more than a fortnight. Mr Trump said he would discuss the "Humanitarian and National Security crisis on our Southern Border" at 9 pm EST. He maintains...Tags: News, Instagram, Nbc, Congress, Abc, Mexico, Senate, White House, Iraq, US, Cnn, Afghanistan, Democrats, Maine, House, House Of Representatives 76 people like this. Like The most powerful lawyer in the US is open to investigating the Silicon Valley giantsSeptember 12, 2018 at 7:10 AM Attorney General Jeff Sessions is exploring the possibility of an investigation into US tech giants, Bloomberg reported.
Sessions will be briefed on September 25 by Republican state attorneys general.
Bloomberg reports that Sessions has not yet made his mind up about how to proceed, but that one of the attending attorneys general wants to break up the big tech companies.
There's a little more insight into US Attorney General Jeff Sessions' cryptic announcement that he planned to discuss wheth...Tags: Google, Facebook, Europe, Instagram, Washington, US, America, Trends, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley, Republican, Trump, Google Facebook, Jeff Sessions, Bloomberg Sessions 135 people like this. Like That lawmaker who used his ex-girlfriend’s nude pics to catfish guys on Instagram just resignedAugust 1, 2018 at 4:52 PM We think it's safe to say that August 1, 2018 will go down in history as the worst day of Rep. Nick Sauer's life.Tags: Sex Scandal, Politics, Instagram, Sex, Lifestyle, Revenge, Republican, Illinois, Bisexual, Revenge Porn, Ad Friendly, Queerty, Resignation, Catfish, Nick Sauer 6 people like this. Like Straight lawmaker accused of using ex-girlfriend’s nude pics to catfish guys into having cybersexAugust 1, 2018 at 11:16 AM Rep. Nick Sauer's ex-girlfriend says he used nude photos of her to create a fake Instagram account in order to “catfish” other guys.Tags: Sex Scandal, Politics, Instagram, Sex, Lifestyle, Republican, Illinois, Bisexual, Cybersex, Ad Friendly, Queerty, Catfish, Nick Sauer 50 people like this. Like Facebook takes down over 200 accounts and pages run by the IRA, a notorious Russian troll farmApril 3, 2018 at 11:12 PM Facebook announced Tuesday that it has removed 135 Facebook and Instagram accounts, and 138 Facebook pages, that were linked to the Internet Research Agency, a notorious Russian troll farm that was indicted for trying to meddle in the 2016 US election.
Facebook said the 65 Instagram accounts and 138 Facebook pages reached a combined 1.5 million users around the world. It did not offer data on how many users were reached by the 70 IRA-linked Facebook accounts that have been removed.
Chief Secur...Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Texas, Instagram, Washington Post, Russia, US, Barack Obama, Trends, Idaho, Crimea, Wisconsin, Uzbekistan, Michigan, Ira, James Clapper 117 people like this. Like New evidence emerges that Russia infiltrated Facebook to sow political chaos in the USSeptember 28, 2017 at 12:48 AM A series of developments on Wednesday shed new light on the lengths Russia went to exploit social media, and Facebook in particular, to spread disinformation and generate political division among the American public.
Facebook recently came under the microscope after it emerged earlier this month that fake accounts linked to Russian entities used the platform to spread fake news and bought $100,000 worth of inflammatory ads leading up to the 2016 election.
The company the extent of Russia'...Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Isis, Texas, Instagram, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Obama, California, Washington Post, Russia, US, NFL, Barack Obama, Trends, Syria 120 people like this. Like Evidence mounts that Russia used Facebook to sow political chaos in the USSeptember 28, 2017 at 12:48 AM A series of developments on Wednesday shed new light on the lengths Russia went to exploit social media, and Facebook in particular, to spread disinformation and generate political division among the American public.
Facebook recently came under the microscope after it emerged earlier this month that fake accounts linked to Russian entities used the platform to spread fake news and bought $100,000 worth of inflammatory ads leading up to the 2016 election.
The company the extent of Russia'...Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Isis, Texas, Instagram, Putin, Vladimir Putin, Obama, California, Washington Post, Russia, US, Barack Obama, Trends, Syria, Cnn 77 people like this. Like The Question Is: Can The UN Survive The Trump Era?December 21, 2016 at 4:38 PM The United Nations will swear in António Guterres as its ninth secretary-general on Dec. 12, when the organization will be only weeks away from the inauguration of Donald Trump and the potentially most threatening, hostile political opposition to the UN ever assembled in Washington, D.C. The UN will have to be prepared to respond and defend its record. Most likely, it will also have to fend off a wave of "fake news" and bogus sites designed to weaken public support in the United States and aroun...Tags: Google, Facebook, Europe, New York, News, Instagram, Obama, Congress, Snowden, Washington, Senate, White House, China, Germany, Russia, Berlin 24 people like this. Like |
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