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Former First Lady Michelle Obama Urges Silicon Valley to Permanently Ban Trump

Michelle Obama has a clear message to Silicon Valley — ban President Donald Trump and stop others from abusing their platforms. In what has been a whirlwind of the first full week of 2021, former First Lady Michelle Obama makes it clear that there is no room for bias in this nation moving forward after pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capital building on Wednesday resulting in multiple injuries and five deaths. According to TechCrunch, specifically, she calls on Silicon Valley to address its role in the chaos that took place in reference to the bias treatment of pro-Trump fanatics versus the mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstrations that took place during the past summer. “Now is the time for companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior — and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technology from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection,” wrote Obama in...

Shanique Yates

Jan 8, 2021