{"id":1636287,"date":"2022-09-08T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636287"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:18:46","slug":"google-keeps-truth-social-banned-from-app-store-over-content-moderation-while-facebook-instagram-broadcast-shooting-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-keeps-truth-social-banned-from-app-store-over-content-moderation-while-facebook-instagram-broadcast-shooting-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Keeps Truth Social Banned From App Store Over Content Moderation While Facebook, Instagram Broadcast Shooting Spree"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-keeps-truth-social-banned-from-app-store-over-content-moderation-while-facebook-instagram-broadcast-shooting-spree%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1636287&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Android users may still download the Facebook and Instagram applications from Apple and Google\u2019s online marketplaces Thursday morning, while former President Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social remains banned over content moderation.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, both platforms still available for download by Meta were used by 19-year-old Ezekiel Kelly Thursday night to <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/lookner\/status\/1567691485532852225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">broadcast <\/a>a shooting spree that left four people dead, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/07\/memphis-police-warn-man-randomly-shooting-while-livestreaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to police. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo faking, this s\u2013t for real,\u201d said the crazed gunman on Facebook livestream as he walked into an AutoZone and shot a man point blank. <\/p>\n<p>While apps for Facebook and Instagram remain in the Google Play store, Android users are barred from downloading Truth Social. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, Google <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/30\/google-nukes-truth-social-from-app-store-after-new-york-times-smears-platform-as-haven-for-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced <\/a>Trump\u2019s free speech-branded Twitter alternative would continue to suffer an app store ban until the platform embraced Silicon Valley\u2019s censorship regime and adopted proper content moderation policies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Aug. 19, we notified Truth Social of several violations of standard policies in their current app submission and reiterated that having effective systems for moderating user-generated content is a condition of our terms of service for any app to go live on Google Play,\u201d the Mountain View-based company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/08\/30\/trump-truth-social-barred-from-google-play-store-content-moderation-concerns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement coincided with a hit piece from the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/29\/new-york-times-amplifies-misinformation-groups-talking-points-to-smear-truth-social-as-qanon-haven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published <\/a>one day prior smearing Truth Social as a haven for extremism.<\/p>\n<p>Headlined, \u201cQAnon Accounts Found a Home, and Trump\u2019s Support, on Truth Social,\u201d the paper highlighted a few dozen accounts supposedly associated with QAnon to justify the platform\u2019s destruction, despite more than <a href=\"https:\/\/earthweb.com\/how-many-people-use-truth-social\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half a million active users<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The allied censorship regime between corporate media and big tech is closely following the Parler playbook, where Apple, Google, and Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/10\/big-tech-oligarchs-collude-to-ban-parler-from-internet-and-phones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">colluded<\/a> to de-platform the rival social media company. <\/p>\n<p>In January last year, the three tech giants stripped Parler from their services, citing extremist content on the platform leading up to the Capitol riot. Twitter and Facebook, however, each fostered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/plans-to-storm-the-capitol-circulated-on-social-media-2021-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">same activity<\/a> on their own platforms during the same time frame.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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