Kif Leswing / CNBC:Analysis: Apple’s App Store grossed an estimated $64B+ in 2020, up 28% from an estimated $50B in 2019 and $48.5B in 2018 — – Apple’s App Store grossed more than $64 billion in 2020, according to an analysis by CNBC. — That’s up from an estimated $50 billion in 2019 and $48.5…
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:Twitter and Facebook’s ban on Trump is not censorship, and demanding clear rules for social media moderation is “stupid” because the context is always changing — When I started writing this post, it was about Facebook’s decision to suspend Trump’s account indefinitely …
Jack Morse / Mashable:Twitter permanently suspends @TeamTrump after the account posted quotes from Trump’s now removed @POTUS tweets, says evading suspension is against its rules — Twitter kept its word. — After permanently suspending the @realDonaldTrump account late Friday, Twitter also moved to suspend the @TeamTrump account.
Chris O’Brien / VentureBeat:Equifax says it has acquired Kount, which uses AI for digital ID and fraud prevention services, for $640M; Kount becomes part of Equifax’s Luminate platform — Equifax announced today that it would pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:Twitter has taken down tweets from @POTUS in which Trump criticized his ban and suggested looking “at the possibilities of building out our own platform” — They’re gone — Twitter permanently banned Donald Trump today. For a brief moment, he managed to tweet anyhow …
Shawna Chen / Axios:Google suspends Parler from the Play Store over moderation and enforcement policies, citing an “ongoing and urgent public safety threat” — Google has pulled Parler, a social media app for conservatives and far-right extremists, from its app store following the company’s role in the deadly U.S. Capitol siege this week.
Jay Peters / The Verge:Discord bans pro-Trump server “The Donald” because of “its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection” — The server had connections to the banned r/The_Donald subreddit — Discord has banned a server called “The Donald …
Twitter:Twitter describes how it decided to suspend Trump’s account, specifying how two tweets were in violation of its Glorification of Violence Policy — After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received …
New York Times:Dlive, a livestreaming platform that has attracted a far-right userbase, had a near record of 150K concurrent viewers on Wednesday, according to estimates — A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
The Verge:Twitter says it has permanently suspended Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence” — The president’s preferred megaphone is gone — Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving four dead.