Tokyo — Tech firms tried to contain a mounting backlash against their social media sites, with shares of Twitter and Facebook falling in early trading on Monday and rival platform Parler forced offline by Amazon.com.
Twitter fell 6.9% in premarket trading in New York after it banned President Donald Trump permanently for risking incitement to violence, citing posts referring to riots in the US capital last week, removing one of Twitter’s biggest accounts. Facebook’s shares were down 1.7%...
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