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Twitter CEO Defends Trump Ban, Cites Threats to Physical Safety
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended the company’s decision last week to permanently ban President Donald Trump. “After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,” Dorsey said in a thread on Twitter, talking about the ban for the first time....
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Social Media Crackdown Continues After Siege of US Capitol
Social media platforms are continuing to crack down on fringe groups and conspiracy theories following last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Parler Squeezed as Trump Seeks New Online Megaphone
Though stripped of his Twitter megaphone, President Donald Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach
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A Farewell to @realDonaldTrump, Gone After 57,000 Tweets
The Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, which grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of a president, has died
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Twitter Bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon Account Purge
Twitter on Friday removed the accounts of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other high-profile supporters of President Donald Trump that promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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Twitter Locks President Trump's Account After ‘Repeated and Severe Violations'
Twitter locked the account of President Donald Trump after the removal of three Tweets that repeated “severe violations” of Twitter’s Civic Integrity policy.
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Biden's Pick to Head OMB Brings Experience, Twitter Enemies
Neera Tanden, currently president of the Democratic-aligned think tank Center for American Progress, has spent years fighting online against both Republican legislators and leftist critics of her longtime boss Hillary Clinton
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‘Late Night' Amber Says What: Racist Twitter Drama, Patti LaBelle
“Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin recaps what’s happening in pop culture news.
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Twitter Fleets — How to Use the Social Media Platform's New Feature
Tweets, meet Fleets. Twitter unveiled its own version on Tuesday of the ephemeral stories found on other platforms with Fleets, which are tweets that disappear after 24 hours and cannot receive likes, retweets or public replies. The only way another Twitter user can reply to a Fleet is privately via direct message. The feature makes it “easier than ever to...
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Twitter Launches New Feature: Disappearing Tweets Called Fleets
Twitter on Tuesday launched a new feature that enables users to tweet momentary thoughts they may not care to keep on their permanent timeline.
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Twitter, Facebook CEOs Vow Election Action; GOP Touts Curbs
As the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook gave assurances of vigorous action against election disinformation, Republicans at a Senate hearing pounded the social media companies over political bias, business practices and market dominance
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Trump Seems to Suggest Biden ‘Won' But Later Says He's Not Conceding
Trump has not formally conceded, and the delay is already keeping Biden from receiving high-level intelligence briefings and complicating pandemic planning.
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Election Fallout: Social Media Platforms Struggle With Content
Well after election day, social media companies are still struggling to police content on their platforms.
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Refusing to Concede, Trump Blocks Cooperation on Transition
The Trump administration is throwing the presidential transition into tumult.
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Bannon Podcast Barred From Twitter Over Comments About Fauci, FBI Director
Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon’s podcast was permanently suspended by Twitter and had an episode yanked from YouTube after he implied that FBI Director Christopher Wray and leading government infectious-diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded and have their heads put on pikes outside the White House.
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Decision 2020: Social Media Companies Focus on Fighting Fake News
With Election Day looming, Silicon Valley social media companies are desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2016 election when misinformation spread like wildfire.
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Tech CEOs Defend Social Media Moderation
Republicans escalated charges of anti-conservative bias levied against major tech companies Wednesday in a Senate subcommittee hearing.
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Facebook, Twitter CEOs Ordered to Testify by GOP Senators
The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter has accelerated after Republican senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign
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Twitter Blocks Tweet From Trump Adviser Downplaying Masks
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.
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Tensions Escalate at ‘Free Speech' Rally in San Francisco
Tensions quickly escalated in what organizers called a free speech rally and protest held Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.