Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reportedly asked Tesla CEO Elon Musk how he should fix the social media platform, Musk reportedly told Dorsey that “bots and troll armies” were the issue to focus on.
Twitter is reportedly planning to introduce new features that will allow users to control who can reply to their tweets in an effort to crack down on abuse and harassment online. The feature will allow users to prevent replies altogether, or only allow people they follow to reply, a move that could dramatically lower the platform’s engagement.
Actor-comedian Adam Sandler is the latest celebrity victim of a cyber attack, with hackers alarming his fans by posting racist tweets from his official Twitter account.
The process of limiting a Twitter account’s reach, commonly referred to as shadow banning, has now been added to the company’s official terms of service.
A digital security researcher claims to have discovered a bug in Twitter’s Android app that allowed him to link 17 million phone numbers to users accounts. By uploading phone numbers to twitter, the security expert was matched to the user accounts associated with the phone numbers.
In the past week alone, it was reported that Twitter has suspended journalist Andy Ngo for tweeting inconvenient facts about the purported “epidemic” of transgender deaths, and undercover journalism organization Project Veritas from running recruitment ads. But if you’re a pedophile who wants to discuss your attraction to minors — Twitter’s just fine with that.
Twitter has suspended the account of Andy Ngo, a journalist known for covering and being violently targeted by the far-left extremist “Antifa” movement, after he attempted to argue that the United States is a safer place for transgender people than most other countries in the world.
Twitter has blacklisted the undercover journalism organization Project Veritas, which has previously exposed senior employees at the company admitting to censorship of conservatives, from running ads.
Social media platform Twitter reportedly plans to allow users to hide replies to their own tweets as part of its neverending pursuit of “healthy discussions.”
Twitter has said that naming the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, would be a breach of its rules against posting “personally identifiable information.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that America’s largest technology companies amount to a “growing threat to our democracy.”
Federal prosecutors have charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia after an FBI investigation found that the workers accessed private user information and dug into the accounts of critics of the Saudi government.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that 2020 is “going to be a very tough year” for the company following the announcements of the firm’s third-quarter financial results.
Twitter will ban all political ads globally, in a move that sets the platform apart from Facebook, which considered doing the same but decided against it.
Rap icon and fashion mogul Kanye West opened up in a nearly two-hour interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe to promote his latest album “Jesus Is King” and addressed his “service to Christ,” virtue signaling liberals, his plans to run for president, and much more.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey harshly criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, stating that he has a “major gap” in his free speech argument.
Twitter’s stock plunged Thursday after the social media giant reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that missed expectations, with executives blaming advertising platform glitches that hurt its ability to target users.
Twitter recently stated that it will restrict how users can engage with tweets from world leaders, including President Donald Trump, if the company decides their tweets break the site’s rules. Other users will not be able to reply, like, or retweet Trump and other world leader’s tweets restricted in this way. The company will algorithmically bury the tweet, making them harder to find.
Twitter has long been a hub of public shaming, where old tweets are dug up — often by journalists— to shame and embarrass users, or destroy their reputations and careers. Some media outlets, like now-defunct Gawker, specialized in it.
Social media platform Twitter has been accused of unfairly profiting from the personal data of 14.1 million U.K. citizens after using their personal details provided for account security reasons for targeted advertising without their consent.
Social media company Twitter recently revealed that it had “unintentionally” used email addresses and phone numbers provided by users for account security purposes for targeted advertising.
Twitter took down a video tweeted by President Donald Trump yesterday due to a copyright claim related to the presence of a 5-second clip from a video by music group Nickelback which had been edited to mock Joe Biden.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) cited the Twitter blacklisting of actor James Woods in her letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday, in which she demanded that President Donald Trump be kicked off the social media platform.
2020 White House hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Tuesday wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in which she demanded the technology giant ban President Donald Trump from its platform.
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey “to do something” about President Donald Trump after he referred to impeachment efforts as “a coup” in a tweet on Tuesday.
Twitter has announced that it has suspended another 10,000 accounts from its platform accused of sowing political discord across the globe.
The Twitter account belonging to Hollywood actress Chloë Moretz appears to have been hacked a mere five days after the social media giant CEO, Jack Dorsey, saw his account comprised in a cyber attack.
China has been using pornography spam accounts on Twitter to spread discord and disinformation regarding the Hong Kong protests, according to researchers from the International Cyber Policy Center.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his twitter account hacked earlier today, with the hackers posting a string of racial messages and a false report of a bomb threat before he regained control of his account.
Twitter’s userbase is disproportionately young, affluent, and Democrat, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center.
