Comcast, AT&T, Facebook Suspend Political Contributions Following Capitol Riot

election, federal authorities said in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.Hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the building to disrupt the final, largely ceremonial act by the House and Senate to count electoral votes and declare Joe Biden the winner of the election.

about how he believes “dominant online platforms have contributed to and stoked the conditions for a crisis of hate, a crisis of health and a crisis of truth.” On January 6, . In the attack, people were injured, killed, and high-ranking politicians' lives were threatened.

Ellise Shafer administratorFar-right social media personality Tim Gionet, also known as “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested by the FBI following his involvement in the Jan.

Ellise Shafer administratorJames Murdoch, the son of Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch, has spoken out against “media property owners” that spread disinformation leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.In an interview with the Financial Times on Friday, Murdoch said that the attack on the Capitol is a consequence of the election disinformation championed by President Donald Trump and circulated by media outlets.“The damage is profound,” Murdoch told the Financial Times.

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The retired firefighter who appears to be the man caught on camera throwing a fire extinguisher that hit at least three officers at the Capitol during a riot was arrested Thursday, officials said.  Robert Sanford, of Chester, Pa., faces three federal felony charges including assaulting a police officer, the Wall Street Journal reported.  Video footage of the incident shows the man hurling a fire extinguisher officers attempting to control a mob outside of the west side of the Capitol.

Violent extremist activity will likely surge in the United States and pose "the greatest domestic terrorism threat in 2021," a trio of federal law enforcement agencies warned in a recently released bulletin.

A Chicago-area man accused of storming the Capitol last week allegedly told agents who showed up to arrest him: "Wow, you’re pretty good," court papers show. Kevin James Lyons was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds for allegedly taking part in Jan.

U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe had some sharp words about last week’s U.S.

University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser has been called "complicit" in last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by the writers of an online petition that calls for his resignation after he failed to place blame on President Trump.

A Massachusetts teenager publicly called out her family after recognizing them during the chaos at the Capitol last week, according to media reports.  Helena Duke, 18, received a video clip from a cousin that spread on social media, showing a woman in the middle of a crowd of supporters of President Trump in Washington.  In the video, another woman swings her hands at her face.The first woman hits her back, and then the crowd confronts her.  Duke, a high school senior, recognized the woman who

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterThe Motion Picture Association and Disney have joined the ranks of companies refusing to donate to members of Congress who voted not to certify the presidential election results.In a statement on Tuesday night, the Hollywood trade group said that it was “shocked and saddened by the horrific events” at the Capitol last week.

AT&T, the parent company of WarnerMedia, and Comcast, parent company of NBCUniversal, are the latest corporations to halt political contributions to lawmakers who objected to the certification of the electoral vote last week in favor of Joe Biden, an event that was at the center of the siege of the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

Machine Head‘s Robb Flynn has shared a number of abusive comments he’s received since the release of his recent poem, ‘Vomitous Creatures And Cretins’.The poem, which was written to address last week’s Capitol riots, called those who took part in the siege “charlatans with no morals“, adding that “the Maga’s have come, to the tune of Trump’s pied piper beckoning⁠/ And with nary a scratch, a few cans of teargas, to the terrorist attempting a coup⁠.”The frontman has now shared a few hateful and

Democrats of Congress have formally introduced articles of impeachment for President Donald Trump, following the riots that broke out last week and sent many representatives into a lockdown situation.

Chris Christie is calling for President Donald Trump to be removed from office after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week.

permanently banned from the platform, which was his preferred means of communication.Former CIA director John Brennan dubbed Schwarzenegger’s video “powerful” and “poignant.” Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat said the clip was worth watching because it provided a “blend of historical testimony about the ravages of Nazism and the urgent call to act to protect our own democracy.” Conan O’Brien, film writer Ed Solomon and actress Lea Thompson urged their followers to watch, as well.See his entire video, in

In the wake of last week’s deadly riot at the Capitol, Sen. Mark Warner is urging Facebook and other social media giants to preserve "digital evidence" of the chaotic scenes that engulfed the building.