The Capitol Police force did not request advance help to secure the building from other federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, according to one senior official.
Twitter blocks Trump for 12 hours and Facebook for 24 over policy and rule violations.
The bill's authors said YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram had failed to remove hundreds of URL pages containing prohibited content, as required by Russian law.
Several tech giants have joined the legal battle against the Israeli spyware firm for creating a “systemic cybersecurity risk.”
Allegations of sexual assault and harassment that began with a single tweet about novelist Hasan Ali Toptas have shaken Turkey’s literary world with a #MeToo moment as scores of women speak out.
Twitter Inc says all existing tweets on @POTUS, @F LOTUS, @VP, and other official accounts will be archived, reset to zero tweets, and transferred to the incoming US administration on January 20.
Twitter's head of legal, policy and trust and safety, in a blog post said that out of the 300,000 flagged tweets, 456 were covered over by a warning message and had engagement features limited – users could not like, retweet or reply to the posts.
Former Trump White adviser Steve Bannon had suggested in a Facebook video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and government infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci should be beheaded for being disloyal to Trump.
Social networks failed to meet a deadline to register a representative and open office in Turkey.
Giants of Big Tech are slated to disclose how their businesses faired in the third quarter of this year with firm financial footing despite turbulent politics and the coronavirus pandemic.
Both tech giants are under heavy criticism for flagging New York Post articles about Hunter Biden, as spreading misinformation.
Strained relations between Turkey and Saudi Arabia sees trade being impacted.
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