Social media services, including Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat, froze the president's accounts temporarily on Wednesday after he repeated baseless claims about election interference. "We believe the risks of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great," Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post on Thursday. Trump's initial 12-hour ban on Twitter has now expired, and he has yet to tweet anything as of 2 p.m. "We're continuing to evaluate the situation in real time, including examining activity on the ground and statements made off Twitter," the post read. In 2017, Shopify similarly came under fire for allowing the extremist news website Breitbart to use its services to sell merchandise.

Source: CBC News January 07, 2021 16:40 UTC