"I'm going to see they are held accountable and, if necessary, ensure that they don't serve in Congress," the New Jersey lawmaker said During a Facebook Live broadcast, Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) shared she witnessed members of Congress leading people through the Capitol on Jan. 5, the day before the violent riots occurred. ‘What’s In It For Us?’ podcast tackles Capitol riots, coronavirus vaccine "We can’t have a democracy if members of Congress are actively helping the president overturn the election's results," Sherrill remarked according to news outlet North Jersey. She continued, "I also intend to see that those members...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., assigned partial blame to Facebook for last week's riots and indicated Friday that Congress' response should focus on holding Big Tech accountable rather than ramping up domestic surveillance.

The measure is designed to prevent people from using the platform to incite violence, the social network says.

Critics have advised users to switch to other encrypted apps like Signal and Telegram.

The Facebook-owned platform still says its users must accept the update or stop using the service.

The Facebook and Twitter suspensions were a landmark moment for America's social media giants and the most visible demonstration yet of their absolute power.

Big Tech's coordinated silencing of conservative voices, including President Trump's, signals a crossing of the Rubicon in the debate over government involvement to protect free speech.Even conservatives like me, who have long argued that small-business competition is the best way to moderate the tech oligarchs' power, recognize that government may now have an interest in making some large companies, such as basic web-hosting platforms, utilities akin to AT&T.Since last week's U.S. Capitol riots, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have indefinitely banned the president, eliminating his primary...

As Facebook tried to shift blame over the Capitol riot to Parler or other smaller platforms popular with conservatives, several Democrats and a liberal watchdog group slammed the tech giant for doing too little, too late to crack down on pro-Trump, radical groups organizing violence in Washington.

UPDATE: Dustin Diamond's fear has been confirmed. According to a new statement shared to the actor's Facebook page on Jan. 14, he has been diagnosed with cancer. "At this...