Fmr. Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos: “We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences... There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN."

“OAN and Newsmax have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such bringing them into tens of millions of homes.”

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*REPORT:* Pres. Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani tells ABC News he's working as part of the president's defense team in his upcoming second impeachment trial despite aides to the president saying a team hasn't been assembled yet.

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BREAKING: Biden to cancel Keystone XL pipeline permit on first day in office - CBC

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VIDEO: National Guard troops march in front of the US capitol building.

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Los Angeles County, a county known for its strict lockdown measures, surpassed 1 million COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic and reported its first case of the more contagious variant that was initially discovered in the United Kingdom last year.

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BREAKING: Defense officials tell AP they fear possible inside attack at inauguration, will have National Guard troops vetted.

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AND SO IT BEGINS! Apple is being sued by the Coalition for a Safer Web for failing to remove access to Telegram while still blocking Parler, and also alleging it is being used by hate groups and extremists to attack the Capitol.

Filed on Sunday at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the lawsuit from Ambassador Marc Ginsberg and the Coalition for a Safer Web charges Apple with allowing Telegram to be available in the App Store. This "despite Apple's knowledge that Telegram is being used to intimidate, threaten, and coerce members of the public."

Billed as a "non-partisan, not-for-profit advocacy organization" to force the removal of extremist and terrorist content from social media platforms, the Coalition claims Apple is failing to follow its own policies and guidelines regarding app content in relation to Telegram. In doing so, Apple allows Telegram's more malicious users to continue their activities.

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BLACK NATIONAL ANTHEM? Rep. James Clyburn is introducing a bill in Congress to make a civil rights hymn that speaks to the faith and resilience of African Americans the official national hymn, alongside the national anthem.

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Smoke was seen rising behind the Capitol building moments ago and the Inauguration rehearsal evacuated.

It appears the belongings of a homeless individual caught fire and caused the smoke condition which sent people running in panic.

A man with a fear of COVID-19 was arrested for living at a secure area of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for nearly three months, according to a report.

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UPDATE: Four years after she was sworn-in as a US Senator, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris has resigned (became effective at noon today)

For the first time in 17 years Kamala Harris is not an elected official.

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Parler CEO John Matze says he believes the free-speech platform will be back up “by the end of the month,” Fox News reports.

“I’m confident that by the end of the month, we’ll be back up,” Matze told Fox Sunday night.

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MEANWHILE IN NYC: An 8-year-old boy was shot in the head inside an apartment building in the Bronx on Monday, the NYPD said. The boy was shot in the head inside a building at 5 Fordham Hill Oval, in the Fordham Manor section of the Bronx, around 12:30 p.m. on Monday, police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, the NYPD said.

No one had been arrested in connection with the shooting as of Monday afternoon, police said. An investigation is ongoing.

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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski RAGES against Facebook: “You could have done this a long time ago; you decided to do it now. Huh? I wonder who is going to be president now? Maybe this will make him happy. No! You’ve just shown him why you need to be shut down! You need to be shut down!”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom formally submitted the appointment of Alex Padilla to the US Senate today, according to a press release from the governor’s office.

Padilla formally resigned as Secretary of State this morning and Gov. Newsom also submitted his nomination letter for Assembly member Shirley Weber to replace him. The Deputy Secretary of State, James Schwab, will be the Acting Secretary of State.

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