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Members of the far-right group, who were among Donald Trump’s staunchest fans, are calling him “weak” as more of them were charged for storming the U.S. Capitol.

As President Biden took office, some QAnon believers tried to rejigger their theories to accommodate a transfer of power.

The social network, popular with President Trump’s supporters, went offline last week after it was kicked off Amazon’s servers.

Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.

YouTube is the latest tech company to bar the president from posting online, after Twitter, Facebook and others.

The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.

Mr. Trump became a celebrity through television, but Twitter had given him a singular outlet for expressing himself as he is, unfiltered by the norms of the presidency.

The president’s preferred megaphone cited “the risk of further incitement of violence.” It acted after Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch and other platforms placed limits on him.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, said the risks of Mr. Trump using the service were too great, even as Twitter lifted its lock on the president’s account.

Wednesday was a dark moment in American history. We look at the forces that led us here.

Inside Trump supporters’ online echo chambers, the chaos of Jan. 6 could be seen coming. People posted their plans to come to Washington — and showed the weapons they would carry.

Here are the explanations from the official, Gabriel Sterling, that rebut more than a dozen of the president’s false assertions.

The Trump campaign had circulated the mother’s name while arguing there was widespread voter fraud that helped propel Joseph R. Biden Jr. to victory.