CNN Money: Twitter Crackdown on Hate Speech Backfires
The company has gone after a popular — albeit controversial — Twitter user. It revoked the “verified” status of Milo Yiannopoulos, a British journalist at Breitbart News, on Friday evening.
The company has gone after a popular — albeit controversial — Twitter user. It revoked the “verified” status of Milo Yiannopoulos, a British journalist at Breitbart News, on Friday evening.

British pop artist, songwriter and actor David Bowie has died after an 18-month bout with cancer, having turned 69 just last week. The star’s official Facebook and Twitter accounts featured statements confirming the star died on Sunday. They read: “David

In what local news sources are calling a murder mystery, a 35-year-old Florida woman named Ashley Ann Olsen was found naked in her rented apartment in Florence Saturday, after having been strangled. The victim was an artist who had moved

This Article first appeared in Reuters: Heavy demand for the first edition of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” to be printed in Germany since his death is taking its publisher by surprise, with orders received for almost four times the print run.

The company has gone after a popular — albeit controversial — Twitter user. It revoked the “verified” status of Milo Yiannopoulos, a British journalist at Breitbart News, on Friday evening.

First they came for the stars, turning them into hearts, and we said nothing, or maybe “whatevs”. Then they came for the 140 character count and we looked a bit annoyed and rolled our eyes but essentially did nothing except retweet a couple of “wtf”s. Now they are recalibrating global standards of free speech, so what now?

Love him or hate him—and we suspect most likely go for the latter—but Milo Yiannopoulos certainly spends a lot of time on Twitter.

Twitter appears to have removed the “blue tick” (or “blue check,” as it’s known in the US) from the @Nero account of Milo Yiannopoulos, a writer for the right-wing news site Breitbart.

Outspoken conservative journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, who goes by the Twitter handle @Nero, announced to his followers Friday that Twitter had removed the blue “verified” badge from his account, and warned that this could be the start of a conservative “purge” on the social media platform. Now, conservatives on Twitter have staged a revolt, complete with #JeSuisMilo hashtag.

Twitter’s removal of journalist and provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’s verification badge for unspecified rules violations has pushed the company — in the midst of a crackdown on harassment — deeper into the politicized battle over online speech.

On the January 11 Breitbart News Daily show, broadcast on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 6AM to 9AM EST, host and Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen K. Bannon will interview a number of guests, including former American Major League Baseball

On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, guest host and Breitbart News Washington Editor Matthew Boyle will discuss the most important news of the week. He will be discussing the presidential race, gun control, and the Golden Globes.

In a move reminiscent of then-ABC journalist John Miller’s 1998 interview of deceased terrorist Osama Bin Laden, actor Sean Penn has interviewed the Western Hemisphere’s most notorious drug lord and fugitive under legally questionable circumstances.

On January 7, Baltimore Sun deputy editorial page editor Tricia Bishop penned a column in which she explained that licensed gun owners scare her more than gun-toting criminals.

ARE THE A-HOLES WHO PUSHED THIS CRAP FOR DAYS HAPPY NOW? (Such intrepid reporting, lol.) Let’s hope there’s serious backlash.

So Mark Levin thinks I’m an “a-hole.” That’s OK. I still love the guy. He’s brilliant. He’s a leader. And he may be right.

During the January 7 CNN gun control town hall, President Obama mocked Americans who are concerned that the executive expansion of background checks will be followed by an executive push for gun confiscation.

Glenn Thrush, a solid progressive, writes at Politico how Hillary Clinton is old-fashioned and boring compared to Donald Trump–while softening the impact with some tongue-bathing adulation of Hillary’s policy.

Although the Reuters report clearly states that one of the two Muslim refugees arrested this week on charges of terrorism “came to the United States in 2012 as a refugee from Syria,” this was CNN’s chyron during its Friday morning

Longtime Barack Obama supporter Glenn Kessler, who disguises himself (rather poorly) as an objective fact-checker for the Washington Post, was again caught red-handed lying about Barack Obama’s stated desire to confiscate Americans’ guns. Although Obama has repeatedly cited Australia’s countrywide

The Washington Post published a glowing profile Friday morning about Heidi Cruz – highlighting her professional accomplishments – beyond the fact that she is Ted Cruz’s wife.

The Jerusalem Post reports: Acclaimed American journalist Dan Rather, former anchor of the CBS Evening News and 60 Minutes, is visiting Israel this week to “show this important land” to his grandson. Though details surrounding the trip were sparse, Rather

On the January 8 Breitbart News Daily show, broadcast on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 6AM to 9AM EST, host and Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow will interview a number of guests, including Ed Klein, author of Unlikeable: The Problem with

On January 7, The Baltimore Sun gave President Obama kudos for issuing executive orders for gun control, but expressed their desire that he add another measure–a public registry of gun owners.

More than 100 Missouri Republican lawmakers have sent a letter to top officials of the University of Missouri system calling for the firing of a professor and a staff member who called for “muscle” to threaten a student journalist covering a campus protest in November.

The DC Media likes to look down its smug nose at New Media, especially right-of-center New Media, over our so-called lack of journalistic standards. And yet, time and again, it is the oh-so lofty left-wing legacy media being caught lying,