In return for giving the Trump Organization a 40% ownership stake, Parler wanted an exclusivity window of four hours for Trump's posts, according to documents and people familiar with the discussions.
Four sources say former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale met with Parler advisers at Mar-a-Lago in June to discuss Trump’s business taking an ownership stake. But the White House Counsel’s office put a stop to the talks.
BuzzFeed News spoke to two Black Capitol police officers who described the harrowing day in which they were forced to endure racist abuse as they tried to do their job of protecting the building
One, who is a veteran officer, said that he didn't learn about the mob that was descending on the Capitol from his superiors — but through an Instagram screenshot from a friend.
The officer said upper management had been telling them to prepare for the storming like they would for any other protest — but they found themselves fighting off an invading force that their managers had downplayed.
EXCLUSIVE: For years, human rights activists feared the Xinjiang detention facilities doubled as work camps.
For the first time, satellite photos confirm China has built acres of factories inside the compounds, facilitating forced labor on a vast scale. buzzfeednews.com/article/alison…
The facilities we found cover more than 21 million square feet — nearly four times the size of the Mall of America. Collectively, these factories are larger than Ford's River Rouge Complex — which was once the largest factory complex in the world. buzzfeednews.com/article/alison…
Economic programs designed to move people out of poverty effectively give the government cover to conceal why a person might be far from home.
But when factories are inside internment compounds and cut off from the world, it defies belief to claim workers are there willingly.
But after a long 2020, here are 13 things about the virus that we didn't know at the start of the year. 👇 buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrah…
1) The virus was circulating in China as early as November and in the rest of the world by January, long before countries closed their borders. Scientists are still learning about how it came to infect humans, which can help prevent the next pandemic.
2) COVID-19 can look very different from person-to-person. The CDC has outlined 11 main symptoms to watch for, including fever, cough, shortness of breath, and loss of taste or smell.
BREAKING: After months of inaction, Congress has finally passed another COVID relief bill
It’s a $900 billion package that includes short-term unemployment benefits and a one-time $600 check to most US residents. buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…
On top of the $600 direct payment to adults earning less than $75k, parents will also receive $600 for each child under the age of 17.
The package also includes:
The bill also ends surprise medical billing, where patients go to a hospital covered by their insurance network only to be hit with unforeseeable medical bills because the staff were out-of-network. buzzfeednews.com/article/paulmc…
Even as Americans are now dying from the virus at a rate of one a minute, not a single one of Trump's post-election tweets has mentioned Americans who have died of COVID
To illustrate the staggering difference between what is on Trump's mind and what is happening to his own citizens, here’s a timeline of what Trump was tweeting while Americans were mourning loved ones who had just died of COVID: