Donald Trump pardons ex-Waymo, Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski

Posted on 20/01/2021 by Engadget

Last year Anthony Levandowski pleaded guilty to one count of stealing materials from Google, where he was an engineer for its self-driving car efforts before leaving to found a startup that he sold to Uber. The judge said during his sentencing that h...

Snap permanently closes Donald Trump’s account

Posted on 14/01/2021 by Engadget

Last week, as many social networks took steps to ban or restrict President Trump’s posts in the wake of violent riots that attacked Capitol Hill, Snap indefinitely suspended his account on its service. Today, the company announced that shutdown is pe...

Donald Trump is trying (and failing) to get around Twitter’s ban

Posted on 09/01/2021 by Engadget

Only a few hours after Twitter announced a ban on President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump account, he has attempted to tweet from at least two other accounts under his control. Tweets posted to the official @POTUS account were swiftly deleted, and...

Donald Trump has been kicked off of Twitter

Posted on 08/01/2021 by Engadget

A few days ago, after Twitter temporarily suspended Donald Trump’s account, the company said that any further breaches of its terms could result in suspension. As detailed in a blog post, Twitter decided that some of the president’s tweets posted tod...

Twitter cuts off QAnon conspiracy accounts as employees push to ban Trump

Posted on 08/01/2021 by Engadget

In July a “strong” enforcement action by Twitter banned several thousand accounts linked to the false conspiracy theory QAnon, however many of its most prominent backers remained on the platform. Today, NBC News reports that several people — who have...

Twitter will reset the @POTUS follower count to zero after Biden takes office

Posted on 22/12/2020 by Engadget

Presidential transitions are complex endeavors that require a small army of staff and a lot of work ahead of Inauguration Day. In the modern era, there are other logistics to consider, including oversight of government-run social media accounts. When...

TikTok’s deadline for a sale has moved to December 4th

Posted on 26/11/2020 by Engadget

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 agai...

Joe Biden’s presidential transition launches with BuildBackBetter.gov

Posted on 24/11/2020 by Engadget

Election Day was almost three weeks ago, but despite media projections and state-certified results marking a Joe Biden win in the race for president, the government had not yet started the transition process. Earlier today, GSA Administrator Emily Mu...

Trump executive order seeks to ban Tiktok, WeChat in 45 days

Posted on 07/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

A week ago Donald Trump said that he could and would ban the video sharing app Tiktok, and on Thursday night he issued an executive order to block transactions with its parent company, Bytedance. It’s set to take effect in 45 days, which is just beyo...

Donald Trump claims he will ban TikTok in the US

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Earlier today a report surfaced indicating the Trump administration may force TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the app to a US company.This evening, reporters in the White House press pool have said via Twitter, that the president told them o...

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