Social Media

Amazon hit back at Parler on Tuesday after the alternative social media site filed a lawsuit against the corporate giant this week following its suspension from Amazon Web Services.

Starting on Wednesday, the default privacy setting for accounts with users aged 13 to 15 will be private. That means only someone the user approves as a follower can view their videos, which was not the case previously. But teens can still change this setting to public if they want.

Facebook is urging employees to avoid wearing or carrying company-branded clothing and other items in public after the social media platform suspended President Trump's account, according to an internal memo.

Parler registered its domain with host-sharing site Epik on Monday, according to publicly available WHOIS search results.

Former Twitter Vice President Bruce Daisley told "Varney & Co." companies would "love to” avoid political drama.

Silicon Valley-based researcher Ray Wang said social media giants can recover from censorship fallout by striking a “good balance” between what is freedom of expression, diversity and shareholders.

Gab sent out a cryptic tweet: "Call me, Elon!"

"A lot of people are going to be super unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech," Musk tweeted in response to a satirical article entitled "Evil Fascist Dictator Censored and Voted Out Of Office."