Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

More than 1,800 ads on Trump's Facebook page mentioning "impeachment" have run in the past seven days. The President is using ads to enlist people in what his campaign is calling the "Official Impeachment Defense Task Force." Vice President Mike Pence's Facebook page has also been enlisted in the effort spending more than $700,000 on Facebook ads between September 22 and 28. The amount is the biggest ad spend through Pence's Facebook page since the social media network began releasing ad spend data in May 2018. The Trump campaign has spent almost $20 million on Facebook ads since Facebook began publicly disclosing political ad spend in May 2018.