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The recent storming of the US Capitol seems to be hitting President Donald Trump not only politically, but financially as well. CNN reports a growing number of businesses suddenly want very little to do with Trump after he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol. Twitter and Facebook banned Trump indefinitely, and Stripe is no longer processing credit card payments for his campaign. Shopify stopped operating online stores for the Trump Organization and the campaign and the PGA is pulling a major golf tournament from a Trump resort. It's also unclear which, if any, banks will want to loan money to the Trump Organization.
Jordan Nabigon is the CEO of the content curation site Shared. He was a big Facebook customer, spending nearly $46 million in ads on the site. That is, until the platform booted him without warning or explanation. According to Business Insider, Facebook says Shared violated the site's terms and conditions. However, it wouldn't explain what the violations were. Nabigon says several of Shared's pages have been unpublished since October 26, taking 21 million of the company's followers with them. He added that Facebook gave him no warning that they could or would unpublish his pages, and that Facebook told him the decision was final. Business Insider reports Facebook has also locked Nabigon out of his personal account.
Menlo Park/Washington DC, Jun 29 (EFE/EPA).-A call to pressure Facebook to tackle hate speech and misinformation on its site has gained momentum as a growing list of big brands such as Starbucks and Verzizon said they would stop spending on Facebook ads.Nearly 100 advertisers have joined the boycott in protest of what they say are Facebook's inaction on hate speech.This movement is part of The 'Stop Hate fo Profit' campaign. (Camera: JOHN G. MABANGLO/EDWIN RAMIREZ). FOOTAGE SHOWS THE HEADQUARTERS OF FACEBOOK IN MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA, US; AND BOARDED UP STARTBUCKS AND VERIZON SHOPS IN WASHINGTON DC.
Protestors from the pressure group Avaaz demonstrate outside Portcullis House in London where Facebook's Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is being questioned by members of parliament. IMAGES
FBI General Counsel James Baker talked about cybersecurity, encryption and privacy at the SXSW 2017 Festival in Austin, Texas, Monday. The talk comes in the wake of revelations by Wikileaks on the CIA's ability to spy on any device connected to the internet, information contained in a trove of documents released by Wikileaks last week called Vault 7.