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Shona Ghosh businessinsider said that Exclusive: GitHub employees are up in arms over the firing of a Jewish employee. The former employee said he was reprimanded by HR for his message to an internal Slack channel on the day of the Capitol siege: “stay safe homies, Nazis are about,” with a sad emoji.
Parler found a new hosting service. Parler registered its domain with Epik, a company known for hosting other far-right websites including Gab, after being booted from AWS.
Facebook staffers were instructed not to wear branded clothing. The move, reported by The Information, comes after Facebook indefinitely suspended President Trump from its platform, and coincides with threats against tech firms and their employees.
Sheryl Sandberg said the US Capitol siege was not planned on Facebook. However, experts who study extremism said Facebook was “indirectly involved” in the insurrection for allowing misinformation and violent speech to spread on social media.
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