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US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao resigns
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has resigned from her position.
Shopify delists Trump-affiliated online stores
On Thursday, e-commerce platform Shopify took offline two online stores affiliated with the president in response to Wednesday’s riot at the US Capitol.
Facebook and Instagram make Trump's ban indefinite
The suspension will last until at least Biden's inauguration.
Facebook locks out Donald Trump for 24 hours
Facebook will bar the president from posting to his page for the next 24 hours.
Twitter suspends Donald Trump
Twitter has temporarily suspended Donald Trump after the president tweeted his support for a violent mob.
Facebook and YouTube remove Trump video calling rioters ‘very special’
Facebook and YouTube both removed a video posted by Donald Trump, in which he addressed the rioters who descended on Washington D.C.
Twitter applied warning labels to Trump's tweets prior to his 12-hour suspension
Twitter has added new warnings to tweets from Donald Trump amid violence in Washington D.C.
Twitter will reset the @POTUS follower count to zero after Biden takes office
The White House and press secretary accounts will also lose their followers.
Twitter's latest Trump labels say Biden won the election
Twitter is more aggressively labeling Trump's tweets, noting that officials have certified Biden's election win.
Space Force announces its personnel will be called 'Guardians'
While Donald Trump said that at first he was “not really serious” when considering a Space Force branch of the military, it has become real, and has continued to progress despite the ongoing pandemic.
Prosecutors say Trump's Twitter was 'hacked' through simple password guess
Dutch prosecutors say a man really did 'hack' Donald Trump's Twitter account by guessing the password.
YouTube will remove videos disputing the 2020 presidential election
YouTube has started removing any content claiming widespread fraud in the US election now that states have certified the results.
TikTok's deadline comes and goes with no sale and no ban, yet
Instead, Bloomberg and Reuters report, based on anonymous sources, that the Chinese company and the US government will continue negotiations. While the Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) could enact some enforcement of a ban on the company, there’s no indication of when that might happen or in what form.
Apple may move some production to Vietnam to avoid trade tensions
Apple is reportedly shifting some iPad and MacBook production to Vietnam to reduce the potential damage from a US-China trade war.
TikTok's deadline for a sale has moved to December 4th
Remember that deadline the Trump Administration imposed for TikTok to either sell or face being shut down in the US? It already shifted back to the 27th — after TikTok complained the government wasn't responding to inquiries — and it's now moved again. Bloomberg and Reuters report that TikTok mentioned a new date in recent court filings, saying a seven day extension has given it until December 4th.
Joe Biden's presidential transition launches with BuildBackBetter.gov
The Joe Biden - Kamala Harris administration now has federal government support to begin its transition, including millions in funding and the use of .gov domains.
GM pulls out of Trump administration's fuel emissions lawsuit in California
General Motors won’t support the Trump administration’s attempts to strip California of the right to set its own fuel emissions standard.
Donald Trump fires election cybersecurity director Christopher Krebs
Several days ago, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — a section of the Department of Homeland Security that, among other things, works on election security — issued a statement saying “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.
Commerce Department extends deadline for a TikTok sale to the 27th
While a presidential order banning TikTok had been held up by a judge, the president’s August 14th executive order still required a sale.
Federal cybersecurity agency calls election 'most secure in American history'
Despite claims made without any evidence about the validity of the November election, a collection of election officials signed on to a statement distributed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).