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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....

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.

Though stripped of his Twitter megaphone, President Donald Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach

The Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, which grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of a president, has died

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.

Twitter locked the account of President Donald Trump after the removal of three Tweets that repeated “severe violations” of Twitter’s Civic Integrity policy.

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

“Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin recaps what’s happening in pop culture news.

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...

Twitter on Tuesday launched a new feature that enables users to tweet momentary thoughts they may not care to keep on their permanent timeline.

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

Trump has not formally conceded, and the delay is already keeping Biden from receiving high-level intelligence briefings and complicating pandemic planning.

Well after election day, social media companies are still struggling to police content on their platforms.

The Trump administration is throwing the presidential transition into tumult.

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.

With Election Day looming, Silicon Valley social media companies are desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2016 election when misinformation spread like wildfire.

Republicans escalated charges of anti-conservative bias levied against major tech companies Wednesday in a Senate subcommittee hearing.

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

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.