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5 things you need to know this morning: Jan. 11, 2021
Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Five things you need to know
1. Big Tech flexes muscles to kill alternative social media platform
The American technology giants have combined to extinguish alternative social media platform Parler. Its website went offline after Amazon pulled the plug on its cloud computing. Amazon said it had taken the action because Parler – seen as an alternative to Twitter – featured dozens of posts encouraging violence. Google and Apple earlier removed Parler from their app stores.
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Huge snowball fights broke out across Madrid following snowstorms in the Spanish capital.
A blizzard described by the city’s mayor as “the worst storm since the 1980s” dumped more than 50 centimetres of snow on Madrid on Saturday, prompting closures and restrictions of parks and roads.
And groups of young people took advantage of the situation by throwing snowballs in squares around the city.
Footage shared on social media captured the joyful screams as youths played in Plaza de Callao in other areas.
Police eventually brought the games to a halt by driving vehicles between the groups.
Madrid has been hit by the worst snow storms for decades (Manu Fernandez/AP)