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Twitter down for thousands of users – Downdetector

Thousands of Twitter Inc users were unable to access the social media platform on Monday, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com. As many as 18,000 users reported issues with the…

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Russia says it’s restricting use of Twitter over failure to remove banned content

Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for its alleged failure to remove banned content and threatened a total block if the U.S.…

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India unveils tougher rules for social media such as Facebook, Twitter

India announced new rules on Thursday to regulate big social media firms, such as Facebook and Twitter, the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to tighten control over…

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Twitter to add more labels identifying world leader and government accounts

Twitter Inc said it will next week add labels to identify more state-affiliated accounts, including world leaders’ personal accounts, to give users more context for geopolitical conversations on the platform.…

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Twitter permanently suspends My Pillow CEO for election misinformation

Twitter Inc has permanently suspended the account of My Pillow chief Mike Lindell for repeated violations of the company's policy on election misinformation, the social media firm said late on Monday. Lindell, a…

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UK says Twitter entitled to ban Trump, but social media firms must be accountable

LONDON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Social media firms are entitled to make their own decisions about content moderation but must be accountable, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's spokesman said on…

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Analysis: Facebook and Twitter crackdown around Capitol siege is too little, too late

PALO ALTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - By the time social media companies took action against users and groups spurring on the siege of Capitol Hill this week, culminating in the suspension…

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Twitter permanently suspends Trump’s account, cites ‘incitement of violence’ risk – UPDATE

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter Inc said on Friday that it has permanently suspended U.S. President Donald Trump's account due to the risk of further incitement of violence following the…

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Trump returns to Twitter as Facebook’s Zuckerberg bans him for ‘fanning the flames’

U.S. President Donald Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday with a video acknowledging that Joe Biden would be the next U.S. president as other social media services including Facebook Inc…

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Twitter to hand @POTUS to Biden on Inauguration day

The presidential @POTUS Twitter handle will automatically transfer to President-elect Joe Biden the moment he’s sworn in at noon on Inauguration Day — whether or not President Donald Trump has conceded, the…

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Twitter slows rollout of disappearing ‘fleets’ worldwide

Twitter Inc will slow down the rollout of tweets that disappear after 24 hours, a day after it launched the feature worldwide, in order to fix performance and stability issues,…

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Twitter to launch disappearing ‘tweets’

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it was globally launching tweets that disappear after 24 hours, similar to the stories feature that is popular on Snapchat and Facebook's photo-sharing app Instagram.…

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Major Twitter outage affects users around the world

Twitter Inc said its social networking site was down for many users due to "some trouble" with its internal systems. People in countries including the US and UK were unable…

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Advertisers agree deal with social media on steps to curb harmful content

Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have agreed with big advertisers on first steps to curb harmful content online, following boycotts of social media platforms that advertisers had accused of tolerating hate…

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Facebook, Google, Twitter urged by EU to do more against fake news

Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective, the European…

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Twitter confirms account of India PM Modi’s personal website hacked

Twitter confirmed on Thursday that an account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to donate to a relief…

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Facebook, Twitter pull Trump posts over coronavirus misinformation

Facebook Inc on Wednesday took down a post by U.S. President Donald Trump, which the company said violated its rules against sharing misinformation about the coronavirus. The post contained a…

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Twitter will suspend accounts tweeting about conspiracy theory group QAnon

Twitter Inc said it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group that claims "deep-state" traitors are plotting against President Donald Trump. Twitter,…

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Twitter hack is a nightmare not just for Twitter

by Gina Chon via Reuters Breakingviews A hack of prominent Twitter accounts is a nightmare for more than just the social network itself. Fake tweets soliciting digital currency on…

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CorporateDispatchPro – Digitisation: Beyond Digital

Companies today are born digital. The digitisation of processes not only opens up exciting new business opportunities but makes entrepreneurship itself more widely accessible and more democratic. Technological change…

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Twitter says about 130 accounts targeted in cyber attack

Twitter Inc said late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week, an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were…

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Multiple high-profile Twitter accounts hijacked

Multiple high-profile Twitter accounts were hijacked on Wednesday, with some of the platform's top voices - including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, former U.S. President…

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Twitter to drop the terms ‘master’, ‘slave’ and ‘blacklist’

Social media platform Twitter is dropping the terms "master", "slave" and "blacklist" in favour of more inclusive language. The terms are frequently used in programming codes which originated decades ago.…

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Ireland, Luxembourg need more muscle to police tech giants, EU report says

Ireland and Luxembourg, European headquarters to Google, Facebook, Twitter and Amazon, need a substantial boost in resources to deal with data breaches by U.S. tech giants, a European Union report said. The report by the European Commission,…

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Twitter labels Trump’s tweet as ‘manipulated media’

Twitter Inc added a 'manipulated media' label on a video posted on U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter feed on Thursday that showed a doctored news clip with a mis-spelled banner…

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Twitter appoints Google’s former CFO as new Chairman

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday that it appointed Patrick Pichette, former chief financial officer at Google, as chairman, replacing Omid Kordestani. Pichette has been the lead independent director on Twitter's…

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Confrontation between Trump and Twitter escalates

Twitter accused President Donald Trump on Friday of "glorifying violence", attaching a disclaimer to one of his tweets about unrest in Minneapolis that it said broke its rules. "...These THUGS…

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Twitter corrects Trump

A post by US President Donald Trump has been given a fact-check label by Twitter for the first time. President Trump tweeted: "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots…

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Twitter allows staff to work from home ‘forever’

Twitter employee may never have to go back to work. The company, which is headquartered in San Francisco, says its workforce of around 5,000 people have been working remotely since…

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Facebook, YouTube remove ‘Plandemic’ video with ‘unsubstantiated’ coronavirus claims

Facebook Inc and YouTube, the video service of Alphabet Inc’s Google, said that they were removing a video that made medically unsubstantiated claims relating to the novel coronavirus pandemic. The…

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Twitter founder pledges $1 billion for coronavirus relief efforts

Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey pledged $1 billion of his stake in Square Inc, the payments processor that he co-founded and heads, to help fund relief efforts…

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Coronavirus misinformation surges on social media

Misleading, unverified and clearly false information about the coronavirus has spread across social media platforms, with some accounts only a few days old reaching millions of views with a mix…

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Trump sets new Twitter record for presidency

U.S. President Donald Trump posted more than 140 times on Twitter on Wednesday, surpassing his mid-December record for the most daily tweets and retweets during his presidency. The president flooded…

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Twitter takes down thousands of accounts linked to Saudi Arabia

Twitter has removed thousands of accounts linked to Saudi Arabia on the grounds they were violating the social media's platform manipulation policies, it said today. "Accounts were amplifying messages favorable to…

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Twitter suspends account deletions after outcry

Twitter has said it will "pause" plans to disable inactive accounts following user backlash, a day after announcing plans for a huge cull of such accounts. The social network said…

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Twitter to remove inactive users

Twitter will begin deleting accounts that have been inactive for more than six months, unless they log in before an 11 December deadline. The cull will include users who stopped…

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Former Twitter employees charged in US with spying on accounts for Saudi Arabia

Two former Twitter employees and a third man were charged in San Francisco Federal Court Wednesday with spying on Twitter users critical of the Saudi royal family, the US Justice…

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Twitter to ban all political ads

Twitter will ban all political advertising on its platform beginning next month, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday. In a series of posts, Dorsey said politicians should earn their…

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Pope mistakenly tweets support for US ‘Saints’ football team

The Vatican employees who manage Pope Francis' official Twitter account in English on Sunday by mistake tweeted the Pope’s support for American football team the New Orleans Saints.when tweeting about…

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Twitter suffers global outrage

Twitter said that the social media website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck was hit with an outage on Tuesday, with thousands of global users left in the dark. Outage…

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Twitter’s CEO account hacked

Hackers took over the Twitter account of Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, on Friday and used the account to broadcast a string of racist messages and bomb threats. In the…

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Hong-Kong Twitter and Facebook take down ‘Chinese state-backed’ accounts

Twitter and Facebook on Monday both announced the discovery of a disinformation campaign being conducted on their platforms by Chinese-backed groups trying to undermine the recent pro-democracy protests in Hong…

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Scotland Yard Twitter account hacked

The Metropolitan Police's Twitter account has been targeted by hackers who posted a series of bizarre tweets on the force's official account. A Scotland Yard superintendent confirmed the incident and…

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On this day…

In 1799 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign. In 1903, the newly formed Ford Motor Company…

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Twitter down – Site not working

Twitter went down on Thursday across major parts of the world including the US, Northern Italy and the UK as users reported being unable to access the platform on web…

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Trump’s blocking of people on his Twitter account is anti-Constitutional

President Trump has been violating the Constitution by blocking people from following his Twitter account because they criticized or mocked him, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The ruling…

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Twitter announces that politician’s tweets will be labelled as such

Preidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels. The new policy , announced by…

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Trump tweets about the Prince of Whales…

Wales is a country in the United Kingdom, home of Snowdonia National Park, famous for its rugby team and known as the "land of song." On the other hand Whales: Marine…

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Trump mistakenly tweets millions dead in Sri Lanka explosions

President Donald Trump began Sunday with tweets about terrorist attacks in the Asian nation of Sri Lanka that killed at least 190 people. In expressing his condolences to those impacted by…

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French government Twitter campaign encouraging people to vote in EP elections blocked by France’s new fake news law

A campaign by the French government encouraging people to register to vote in the European Parliament elections has been blocked on Twitter, officials said on Tuesday. The platform claimed it…

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Mussolini’s granddaughter hits out at actor Jim Carrey over drawing

Italian politician Alessandra Mussolini has publicly insulted Jim Carrey after he tweeted a drawing of the hanging of her grandfather, Benito Mussolini, and Claretta Petacci. As the Carrey’s tweet gained…

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Duchess of Sussex victim of Russian ‘bot-like’ Twitter accounts ‘obsessively’ tweeting about her

Suspicious “bot-like” Twitter accounts and handles linked to Russian conspiracy theories have been “obsessively” tweeting about the Duchess of Sussex, an investigation has found. Analysis of accounts interconnected into a…

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Twitter database reveals major misinformation campaigns on US elections and Brexit referendum

More than 10m tweets sent by state actors attempting to influence US politics have been released to the public, forming one of the largest archives of political misinformation ever collated. The database…

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Trump isn’t immune from being kicked off Twitter

Twitter said Tuesday that not even U.S. President Donald Trump is immune from being kicked off the platform if his tweets cross a line with abusive behavior. The social media…

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Trump has warned Google, Twitter and Facebook they are “treading on troubled territory

US President Donald Trump has warned Google, Twitter and Facebook they are "treading on troubled territory" amid a row over perceived bias. He said they had to be "very careful",…

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The Saturday Morning Briefing

Good morning, He came, he disrupted, he conquered. Or not? For sure he conquered the headlines. In a nutshell that's the essence of Trump's visit to the UK impact. However…

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Twitter clamps down on suspicious accounts

New York Times: Many celebrities, politicians and so-called social media influencers found their Twitter followings knocked down a few digits on Thursday as the company slashed tens of millions of suspicious accounts from…

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