The top three spenders on political campaign Twitter advertisements are Democrat congressmen and senators, with Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) leading the charge, according to a report.
Twitter is planning to remove the “like” button from its platform as CEO Jack Dorsey is “not a fan” of it, according to a report from the Telegraph.
After President Trump called out Twitter for removing “many people” from his account, Friday, Twitter issued a statement defending its removal of followers.
Twitter’s revenue for the third quarter was higher than expected, but the number of monthly active users on the platform — a key social media metric — has declined.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) criticized Big Tech companies for not being “very civically involved” in San Francisco this week.
A conspiracy theory alleging that the culprit behind the attempted bomb attacks on former President Obama, the Clintons, and others is a Trump supporter became the top trend on Twitter today.
Twitter has admitted that verification and the associated “blue checkmark,” freely given to Sleeping Giants, have evolved into a signal of endorsement.
A single Saudi Arabian Twitter employee was able to help the government of Saudi Arabia spy on dissidents, according to a report.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan faced no punishment from Twitter for his comments comparing Jewish people to termites — because he didn’t single out a particular Jewish person — but conservatives in similar circumstances have been banned.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed in an interview this week that it was a “joke” when the social network described itself as the “free-speech wing of the free-speech party.”
Twitter said their policy on “dehumanizing language” has yet to come into effect.
Twitter released account and tweet data on Wednesday it claims to believe are “associated with potential information operations found on our service since 2016.” It further describes its motive in censoring content across its digital platforms as serving the best interest of “the public conversation.”
Georgetown Professor Christine Fair was suspended from Twitter on Tuesday after she tweeted that GOP senators deserve “slow miserable deaths” and their corpses castrated.
Free speech social media platform Gab flew a banner over Twitter HQ this week calling on President Trump to investigate the company.
According to a company blog post, Twitter is crafting updated harassment policies with the help of user input.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Actor James Woods has been locked out of his Twitter account over a tweet he sent out months ago that was found to be in violation of Twitter’s rules.
Conservative actor James Woods was locked out of Twitter on Friday for posting a two-month-old meme that Jack Dorsey’s social media platform believes “could impact an election.”
Kanye West shared a portion of a text exchange he had with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, posting a screenshot of the messages on his Instagram profile on Thursday.
Iran’s hardline Islamist government has attacked social media platform Twitter and accused it of randomly closing down what it calls “legitimate accounts.”
Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, speaks out against Jack Dorsey and Twitter’s anti-conservative bias in a new op-ed that calls for the platform to “fix its act.”
Twitter will allow users to see posts in chronological order again soon, after years of pushing unpopular features ranking the “best tweets” the platform would prefer users to read and engage with.
Lila Rose, the president and founder of pro-life organization Live Action, called out Twitter for claiming it doesn’t censor content based on political beliefs while simultaneously cracking down on pro-life posts and campaigns.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted during an interview with Recode that “conservative-leaning” employees at the company “don’t feel safe to express their opinions,” and “feel silenced.”
Not everyone on Twitter decided to mourn the lives lost on September 11, 2001, this year. Some took to the social media platform — which has supposedly dedicated itself to “conversational health” — to blame America for the terrorist attacks that day.
Representative Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) appeared on Breitbart News Sunday this week to discuss Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s recent hearing before Congress.
While Democrat lawmakers squealed about a “right-wing conspiracy theory” at Jack Dorsey’s testimony on social media censorship Wednesday, Republicans rolled out a laundry list of examples of Twitter’s bias against conservative users.
BuzzFeed senior technology writer Charlie Warzel acknowledged that he sent emails to Twitter enquiring about tweets from Infowars founder Alex Jones ahead of the social media company’s decision to ban Jones from its platform.
Alex Jones was banned from Twitter for insulting CNN journalist Oliver Darcy.
During his hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey faced a wide spectrum of questioning from conservatives. He was pressed hard on several different points. Breitbart News has gathered together six of our favorite exchanges.
During a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) took Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to task over bias in Twitter’s “suggested follows” feature.
Rep. Bill Long (R-MO) questioned Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey about Twitter’s “moments” feature, noting how digital platform almost exclusively recommends tweets from left-wing and ostensibly conservative Never Trump news media figures. He offered his remarks during Wednesday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding Twitter’s “algorithm and content monitoring practices.”
Rep. Shimkus warned that Twitter gave “power to the loudest mob” and ultimately “fail[s] to protect controversial speech.”
During his hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey claimed he wanted to move the company “out of San Francisco” to create more ideological diversity, and added that the company is considering making the social network’s algorithms public to enable more transparency.
Speaking before Senators and Representatives today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey repeatedly referred to his platform as a “public square” while simultaneously arguing that he has the right to remove lawful content protected by the First Amendment from it.
Sen. Rubio also said that Twitter shouldn’t censor when non-western governments complain about “misinformation.”
Republican Representative Joe Barton grilled Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on the shadowbanning of 600,000 Twitter accounts during a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee today.
During a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, multiple Democrats referred to Twitter’s practice of shadowbanning as a “conspiracy theory.”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that his company’s algorithms “were unfairly filtering 600,000 accounts, including some members of Congress,” from search results based on the type of followers they had.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will answer questions regarding his company’s transparency and accountability from members on Congress Wednesday afternoon.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg will testify today on Capitol Hill about foreign influence and the use of social media platforms.
