Social Media Censorship Timeline
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April 15, 2021 - Twitter bans Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe
O’Keefe was banned shortly after publishing an expose on CNN.
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January 13, 2021 - YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitch, Shopify and Reddit all ban Trump.
Three of these being owned by Facebook, Google, and Amazon
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January 9, 2021 - Apple removes Parler from the app store
after claiming it failed to provide a plan to moderate content.
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January 8, 2021 - Apple sends a letter to Parler Friday morning
demanding that the platform give them a plan on how they will moderate content just as the app hit number one.
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January 7, 2021 - Twitter suspends Trump’s account temporarily following the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The company later announced the suspension was permanent. Twitter also suspended the campaign accounts, as well.
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January 7, 2021 - Trump supporters removed from Twitter
L. Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, and other Trump supporters removed for inciting violence and “coordinated harmful content” for pushing election conspiracies after the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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November 5, 2020 - Former Trump official Steve Bannon removed from Twitter
after he said Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded during a podcast.
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October 30, 2020 - Twitter suspends account for the New York Post
after it released a report on Hunter Biden. Twitter also would not let users share the report as a post or a direct message. Twitter said it was investigating the post as misinformation. Later, it was revealed by the Biden transition that Hunter was under investigation for the claims made by the New York Post.
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July 28, 2020 - Donald Trump Jr. suspended by Twitter
for claiming Hydroxychloroquine could be a cure for COVID-19
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June 23, 2020 - Twitter removes Carpe Donktum
a favorite meme account of President Trump, for making a satirical video of the Kingsman movie in which Trump shoots his critics and members of the press.
