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President Joseph R. Biden. — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine if after that speech Trump could still tweet through the rest of the day. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump vows: “We will be back in some form." — PolitiTweet.org

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Among Trump’s last-minute pardons: Disgraced ex-Google engineer Anthony Levandowski, who had pleaded guilty to trade secret theft https://t.co/RMeGgogLfK https://t.co/nZRZviQuOO — PolitiTweet.org

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Thankfully, most Netflix content takes more time, money and thought to produce than your average YouTube conspiracy video. Still, uncritically embracing The Algorithm is very Silicon Valley circa-2010 — PolitiTweet.org

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HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KrisGoldsmith85: Why does it matter that Facebook hasn’t yet taken down these ads? Because many of them sell not just a product, but an… — PolitiTweet.org

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@painter_nancy Click on the gear icon, then select playback speed. https://t.co/gyShVaDT27 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Neda_Semnani "MAGA" — PolitiTweet.org

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Less than 24 hours before Biden is set to become president, Facebook is still showing ads for tactical gear — despite a promise to suspend those ads in the run-up to the inauguration: https://t.co/BBDb3OTzar — PolitiTweet.org

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It's fun watching this at 1.75x speed — PolitiTweet.org

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Either way, there’s not much of Parler to speak of. The site just points to a static web page, not the actual social application. So it’s sort of moot to talk about where Parler is being “hosted,” as if there is anything TO host right now. Hence the company’s court filing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Currently, visitors to Parler are being directed to an IP address controlled by a DDoS protection company headquartered in Russia, DDoS-guard. But the nature of DDoS-guard makes it really hard if not impossible to determine where inbound traffic goes after that, experts say. — PolitiTweet.org

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Parler contacted six different hosting providers after Amazon, and all of them declined to work with the social media platform: https://t.co/OnolmtxWGf — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @leah_nylen: In a final address, @JusticeATR Makan Delrahim says some of the changes recommended by House Judiciary are "quite sensible.… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mbuckbee That’s what I figured. Is there any way to A) verify what they’re saying and/or B) bypass the proxy to learn the identity of the actual host? — PolitiTweet.org

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Just in: FTC Chair Joe Simons announces he’ll step down from the agency on Jan. 29: https://t.co/HymKh5bTnW — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_F_Rose @normative WAT YOU TOO?! — PolitiTweet.org

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@M_F_Rose @normative As a kid, somehow I decided the correct answer was “butter" — PolitiTweet.org

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Hivemind, can you help me vet point 2 on that list? — PolitiTweet.org

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Some key takeaways from this: 1. DDoS-guard confirms it’s based in Russia 2. It claims it is not the host (assuming that’s true, then presumably it’s just providing DDoS mitigation and masking the true host IP) 3. It does share data with the government pursuant to RU laws — PolitiTweet.org

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Yesterday I got DDoS-guard to answer my email asking whether they host Parler and what their business relationship is with the company. Here’s what came back. https://t.co/X41Vu8WHIj — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Ransomware hit more than 100 government agencies, 500+ health care facilities, and nearly 1,700 schools in 2020, according to a new year-end list compiled by cybersecurity researchers: https://t.co/a7VTyrSQ2l — PolitiTweet.org

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From Symantec’s blog post, it sounds like they found four cases of Raindrop spanning at least three different victims. — PolitiTweet.org

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Symantec says it’s discovered another strain of malware linked to the SolarWinds attacks, which it’s calling Raindrop. Raindrop appears to have been used to facilitate the attackers’ spread across an already-compromised victim network. https://t.co/SLfRqxT2hV — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Facebook posts promoting violence still circulated even after insurrection https://t.co/7zj9GZLyBT https://t.co/aXndWi9Olk — PolitiTweet.org

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The FBI is looking into whether a Capitol rioter may have taken a laptop from Pelosi’s ofice with the intention of **selling it to Russian intelligence**: https://t.co/t6qAdjVyJ6 — PolitiTweet.org

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Parler’s website appears to be back online with a temporary message for “lovers and haters" https://t.co/DfEpO9qPOP — PolitiTweet.org

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As if regular scoop o’clock wasn’t bad enough, now we have fake news o’clocks. Cool. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jolingkent: Remember this? ⬇️ Feels like a long time ago. Well, Seattle’s Office of Police Accountability ruled that a @SeattlePD offic… — PolitiTweet.org