Hot potato. Mark Zuckerberg refers his decision to indefinitely suspend Donald Trump over to its independent oversight board

Hot potato. Mark Zuckerberg refers his decision to indefinitely suspend Donald Trump over to its independent oversight board
After Donald Trump’s ban from many social networking platforms, British MPs grill executives on their respective hate content policies
Engineer who stole self-driving car secrets from Google’s Waymo division, receives pardon from outgoing US President Donald Trump
Amid criticism of big tech ‘censorship’ of free speech, Tim Cook defends decision to suspend far right Parler app from App Store
CEO of Twitter opens up about permanent ban on outgoing US President Donald Trump, after criticism from some quarters over ‘freedom of speech’
Google streaming service YouTube becomes latest social network to suspend President Donald Trump, following attempted insurrection
Tens of thousands of accounts spreading QAnon conspiracy content in past few days after US Capitol attack have been suspended, Twitter confirms
Outgoing US President Donald Trump reportedly went ‘ballistic’ after he was permanently banned from his favoured messaging outlet
With five dead including a police officer and talk of his immediate removal from office, Mark Zuckerberg extends Donald Trump’s ban
President Trump suspended from both Twitter and Facebook for posts to ‘supporters’, after mob storm US Capitol building and people die
Executive order signed by US President bans transactions with eight Chinese software applications including Ant’s Alipay payment app
Trump administration has appealed a judge’s decision to block US attempts to place tough restrictions on ByteDance’s TikTok
US President follows through on threat and vetoes major US defence bill over Section 230 protection for social networking firms
Clean break. Twitter confirms it will remove all followers from US Presidential accounts after Trump handover to President elect Biden
President Trump warns that unless Section 230 liability protection for social networking firms is removed, he will veto a major US Defence bill
ByteDance granted seven day extension by Trump administration of TikTok sale order to new company including Oracle and Walmart
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) boss Chris Krebs has been ‘terminated’ by Trump after he contradicted President’s claims
Email to advertisers confirms Facebook plan to extend its ban on political adverts in the United States for another month
‘Now Donald Trump has lost the US election, are we still going to be banned?’ TikTok owner ByteDance asks in legal challenge
Trump plan to bring manufacturing back to US sees Taiwanese chipmaker provide $3.5 billion for promised $12 billion Arizona factory
After both Donald Trump and Joe Biden claim victory, social networking giants Facebook and Twitter restrict posts claiming election victory
US President Donald Trump has had his posts on Monday about mail-in voting fraud flagged by both social networking platforms
Joe Biden campaign team slams Facebook for blocking adverts in crucial week before US presidential election on 3 November
Senate panel probing of tech CEOs highlights party differences, with grandstanding politicians deemed ‘petty’ by some observers
Missing Mark…CEOs of both Google and Twitter defend law before Senate panel that exempts social networking firms from liability for user content
Security breach for Donald Trump re-election website, but campaign officials deny there was any exposure of sensitive information
Russia and Iran have obtained some US voter registration data and are attempting to influence Presidential election, Trump official warns
About time? Google’s video-sharing platform joins Facebook and Twitter, after announcing ban on content about conspiracy theory QAnon
Two months after Twitter clampdown, Facebook follows suite and bans content linked to conspiracy theory QAnon on its platforms
After he leaves hospital, Twitter and Facebook take action against ‘Coronavirus misinformation’ posts by US President Trump