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 …
It’s time to announce the 2020 CleanTechnica Car of the Year. Shocking no one and no one’s grandmother
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 …
Wall Street banks slammed a proposed rule that would force lenders to finance fossil fuel projects, Bloomberg reports, questioning both its legal underpinnings and fast-tracked process
With just two weeks left in office, the lame duck Trump administration published a rule to allow industries to kill migrating birds so long as they don’t intentionally kill them
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.
Will Tesla release its new, updated “Plaid” Model S soon? YouTube personality Galileo Russell asked Elon Musk on Twitter if the company decided to “sandbag” the vehicle’s timeline to launch. Musk replied with a winking emoji. Hmmm
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 …