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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.
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.
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.
Facebook and Google indefinitely extend their ban on political ads
Facebook and Google's bans on political advertising are still in effect.
Twitter will add warning labels to tweets with premature election results
Twitter confirmed it will label official campaign and candidate accounts — including the president's.
Joe Biden's campaign has a 'Fortnite' island
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have launched a 'Fortnite' island that rallies support through mini games.
Senate Republicans want to subpoena Twitter CEO over blocked Biden story
The company said the 'NY Post' article violated its rules on doxxing and hacked materials.
Biden campaign says Facebook is failing to tackle election lies
The Biden campaign has sent a letter to Facebook accusing it of backsliding on its policies to remove election disinformation.
Joe Biden's campaign app had a bug that made it too easy to access voter info
The app had a flaw that trivialized obtaining someone's personal information.
Russia, China and Iran target US elections with cyberattacks
Russia is once again trying to interfere with a US presidential election. So are China and Iran.
Joe Biden's team brings official campaign signs to 'Animal Crossing'
'Animal Crossing' players can now add official Biden-Harris campaign signs to their islands.
Twitter confirms one elected official had DMs accessed in hack
Biden and Obama's DMs appear to be unaffected, though.
Twitter claims 'social engineering attack' led to crypto scam tweets
Twitter provided some details from its investigation into a massive breach on Wednesday.
Crypto scammers hack Elon Musk, Biden, Obama, and Kanye on Twitter
It's not clear how they accessed the accounts.
Joe Biden calls on Facebook to 'promote real news, not fake news'
Biden’s campaign takes aim at Facebook over political ads and misinformation.
Facebook labels manipulated video of Biden 'endorsing' Trump as 'partly false'
Twitter isn't the only one flagging a manipulated Trump video to warn users. Facebook has labeled a video of presidential hopeful Joe Biden appearing to endorse Trump as "partly false information," citing independent fact-checking from Lead Stories. The company told Engadget in a statement that it was both "reducing [the video's] distribution" and applying warning labels, and that it was applying the treatment to a politician just as it would for a bogus video shared by anyone else.
What does the end of Elizabeth Warren's campaign mean for big tech?
Amazon, Facebook, Google and the rest of the US tech giants can breath a little bit easier today. Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren has dropped out of the race to be the Democratic party's presidential nominee, leaving just Vermont senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden as plausible candidates to be on the ballot come November.
Joe Biden says Facebook spreads ‘falsehoods they know to be false’
In an interview with the New York Times, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said the US should immediately repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). The 1996 law is considered one of the cornerstones of the modern internet. It positions tech companies like Facebook and Google that share information online as distributors as opposed to publishers, in effect protecting them from potential libel suits.