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Twitter has blocked a post from an adviser to President Donald Trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Tensions quickly escalated in what organizers called a free speech rally and protest held Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.

When Facebook and Twitter moved quickly this week to limit the spread of an unverified political story published by the conservative-leaning New York Post, it led to predictable cries of censorship from the right.

A widespread Twitter outage on Thursday “was caused by a system change initiated earlier then planned, affecting most of our servers,” the company said.

After President Donald Trump tweeted Monday a claim that Illinois has “no place to go,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker clapped back, offering the president five “exciting” places to visit in the state. Trump called out the state on Twitter, describing it as “sad,” but Pritzker said he was surprised that the same person who put his name on a Chicago...

Twitter is imposing tough new rules that restrict candidates from declaring premature victory and tighten its measures against spreading misinformation, calling for political violence and spreading thoughtless commentary in the days leading up to and following the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Facebook said Thursday it has removed accounts from three different disinformation campaigns, each with at least loose ties to the Kremlin.

After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday from metastatic pancreatic cancer, politicians from both sides of the aisle took to social media to offer their condolences.

The service has already been on a collision course with Trump over the president’s opposition to mail-in or absentee ballots.

Naperville may have plenty to offer its visitors, but one look at social media Wednesday and the views will undoubtedly surprise you. The Chicago suburb was trending on Twitter Wednesday morning, leaving many on social media both surprised and humored as they discovered why. It appeared to have started with a tweet from the account Beautiful Illinois, which claims to…

Naperville may have plenty to offer its visitors, but one look at social media Wednesday and the views will undoubtedly surprise you.

Speaking about the need to support schools as they reopen in the face of COVID-19, Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the issue Wednesday. “Get off Twitter, and start talking to the Congressional leaders in both parties. Invite them into the Oval Office,” Biden said. “You always talk about your ability to negotiate. Negotiate a deal for somebody...

Twitter removed a video from one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Tuesday after it received a copyright complaint from Eddy Grant, the musician whose hit song “Electric Avenue” appears in the video, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump posted a baffling tweet on Tuesday declaring that he has not had a series of “mini-strokes”— and had the White House physician release a statement backing up his claim.

An online bond hearing for a Florida teen accused of hacking prominent Twitter accounts was interrupted by rap music and pornographic videos from users who apparently disguised their names

A Florida teen arrested Friday was named by authorities as the mastermind of the takeover earlier this month of Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls that scammed people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin

A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen were identified by authorities Friday as the hackers who earlier this month took over Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa, where the Hillsborough State Attorney’s…

The Tampa, Fla., teen is expected to make his first court appearance Saturday.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been banned from Twitter for breaking the social media platform’s site’s rules