Facebook and Twitter block Trump
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BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Social giants act after the President praises supporters who broke into the US Congress building. Plus, how Singapore’s Covid-19 contact tracing data may be accessed by police despite earlier assurances it would only be used to control the pandemic. And we look ahead to next week’s CES, the biggest annual tech event. Can it deliver in a virtual format? Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with BBC senior tech reporter Jane Wakefield. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Donald Trump rallies supporters to march on the US Capitol to protest against the certification of the election result. Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:52.3 | Trump's supporters invaded the US Congress, what role |
| 0:56.0 | did social media play in fermenting the riot? We'll look at the long-term implications of this |
| 1:01.8 | week's events for the likes of Facebook and Twitter. In Singapore, the government promised that its |
| 1:07.3 | contact tracing app would respect users privacy. |
| 1:13.3 | Now data from it is being handed over to the police. |
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