Mickey Mouse turned 88 today and Twitter responded with tons of tweets to wish a happy birthday to the Disney character who started it all.

The social media platform has suspended accounts of several high-profile users associated with the alt-right movement, CBSNews.com reported Wednesday. These include Richard Spencer, Paul Town, Pax Dickinson, Ricky Vaughn and John Rivers.

"It is corporate Stalinism," he said in a YouTube response to this week's Twitter ban. "There is a great purging going on, and [Twitter is] purging people on the basis of their views."

Snap, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, has filed to list on the US stock market, according to several reports.

And while Snap won't comment - it's thought it could be valued at $25bn (£20bn).

The fumble comes almost a week after the US presidential election, in which Trump, the Republican nominee, pulled off a stunning upset victory. In the aftermath, commenters have argued fake news circulating on social networks helped get him elected.

"Google is an important source of news for people who tend to fall toward the middle of the ideological spectrum," Jesse Holcomb, associate director of research for the Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. "It is a generally trusted source of news."

“But our analysis is that [FBI Director James B.] Comey’s letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum,” she said.

“Just as we were back up on the upward trajectory, the second letter from Comey essentially doing what we knew it would — saying there was no there there — was a real motivator for Trump’s voters,” Clinton said.

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook will do more to tackle fake news, and again denied it had in any way aided Donald Trump's presidential election victory.

Mr Zuckerberg continued: "That said, we don't want any hoaxes on Facebook. Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful, and people want accurate news.

When many Facebook users logged on to their accounts on Friday afternoon, they discovered the social network had declared them to be deceased.

While Friday’s wave of Facebook fatalities was clearly a bug or a hoax of some sort, the social network does offer a function that allows people to turn the profile pages of loved ones into a “Memorial.”

The Internet of Things is mostly a hype bubble, with real-world spending and deployments being just a fraction of their predicted level, according to a report by analysts IDTechEx.

"It is probably now physically impossible to deploy the big figures for nodes by 2020," warns the report, which can be downloaded for a fee at the IDTechX website.

Russia wouldn't be the only country to block a US social media company, China has notoriously banned Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. Russia and China have some of the world's largest populations and those users are important to social networking companies. LinkedIn, which was bought by Microsoft for $26.2 billion in June, said this decision could hurt its Russian users.

This legal debacle started in October when Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor sued LinkedIn. Roskomnadzor said that under a September 2015 law on personal data, LinkedIn could only store citizens' data on servers located in Russia.

With Trump's win, it's still not clear what a Trump administration would do on the issues of cybersecurity and encryption. As Ars reported last month, Trump and his campaign team have been vague on many such details.

The Republican candidate said in 1990 that he favored legalization of all drugs. Speaking of the war on drugs at the time, he said, "You have to legalize drugs to win that war."