Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Adi Robertson, and Casey Newton chronicle the week since the Capitol riot: Trump gets deplatformed and Parler is removed from app stores.

Further reading:

• It’s 2021, and the pandemic is still here 
• FDA tells US health providers not to modify COVID-19 vaccine dose schedule
• Florida counties use Eventbrite to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments
• Twitter permanently bans Trump
• Twitter is deleting Trump’s attempts to circumvent ban
• Twitter bans QAnon supporters, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn
• Twitter pulls Trump video that it said posed a ‘risk of violence’
• Facebook bans Trump ‘indefinitely’
• YouTube says it will punish Trump and other channels that continue to spread election lies
• YouTube removes Trump video addressing Capitol attack
• Platforms take action against Trump after Capitol mob attack
• Reddit bans r/donaldtrump forum for inciting violence
• Twitch disables Trump’s account indefinitely
• Big Tech pauses political spending after Capitol riot: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Airbnb are pausing spending
• Shopify takes down Trump’s campaign store
• Google pulls Parler from Play Store for fostering calls to violence
• Apple removes Parler from the App Store
• Parler CEO says even his lawyers are abandoning him
• Parler is gone for now as Amazon terminates hosting
• Parler posts, some with GPS data, have been archived by an independent researcher
• Parler sues Amazon for kicking it off the internet
• Why the post-Capitol deplatforming was necessary
• Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet

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