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Twitter, other social-media platforms face reckoning after US riots, executive tells UK lawmakers

By Jakub Krupa
  • 20 Jan 2021 18:15
  • 20 Jan 2021 19:26
Twitter wasn't fast enough in acknowledging its impact on real-life events and taking decisive action against online harms, but was ultimately right to ban US President Donald Trump, the social network's senior executive told UK lawmakers today.
Speaking just two weeks after the riots at the US Capitol, which left

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Jakub Krupa

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Jakub joined MLex’s London team in August 2020 to report on topics including data privacy and security, cybersecurity, and telecom regulation, focusing on EU & UK regulatory and legal risk in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) sectors. He is currently working on MLex's coverage of future mobility, in particular the rise of connected, electric and autonomous vehicles.

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