Popular knitting community website Ravelry has reportedly banned the support of President Donald Trump on its platform. The company says that President Trump promotes “open white supremacy,” and states that while users can support Trump, “you just can’t talk about it here.” Interestingly, Ravelry claims “We are definitely not banning conservative politics.”
The City of Philadelphia has taken 72 police officers off the streets over “offensive” social media posts they supposedly made.
On-line platforms like Facebook and Twitter put Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Isaac Rochell in such a “funk,” that he recently started an initiative to convince people to take one day a week off from social media.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a mild Twitter meltdown recently vowing to delete his account — which is still currently active, briefly changing his display name to “Daddy dot com.”
“Well, you know what? I’ll bet they do like it,” Trump replied. “They may tell you that, but I’ll bet they like it, you know?”
Twitter announced on Thursday it has shuttered some 4,800 accounts with ties to the government of Iran. The accounts were engaged in spreading disinformation and propaganda that “benefited the diplomatic and geostrategic views of the Iranian state.”
For the passive conservatives — those who prefer losing but remaining “principled” while the left does everything it takes to win, those who believe no hill is worth dying on — the battle for social media is over.
Chinese state media announced the latest Internet censorship campaign on Wednesday, describing it as a “rectification” program that combines the efforts of China’s cyberspace agency, information technology ministry, public security officials, and market regulators.
President Donald Trump praised the power of social media on Wednesday, employing it to criticize polling from the establishment media.
President Donald Trump urged Twitter on Sunday to allow banned conservative personalities to return to the social media platform.
In our polarized world, people surround themselves with like-minded people to avoid having to confront different ideas, Pope Francis told the faithful at Pentecost Mass on Sunday.
Santa Clara County’s Superior Court judge said, “Sorry Google, you’re going to have to face these charges in court,” recalled Harmeet Dhillon.
President Trump’s State Department will soon mandate that all foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States on a visa provide their social media accounts to screen out national security threats.
European Union elections victor Nigel Farage has hailed the arrival of social media as the agent of change which has facilitated the rise of the Brexit Party, which went from foundation to becoming the joint-largest political party in Europe in just 45 days.
Mark Levin described Silicon Valley’s dominant “progressive” ideology as hostile to America’s Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
The White House launched a new system Wednesday to collect stories about free speech censorship on social media. The news was released on Twitter and includes an online form requesting information.
A spokesperson for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta denied rumors on Monday that he is missing, chastising Kenyatta’s social media followers for showing a lack of respect to the country’s leader.
Author Natasha Tynes publicly shamed a black, female transit worker and now she has lost a book deal.
If you want to whine about how hard it will be to create our own social media outlets, how far behind we are — fine. It’s a free country; be as unproductive as you like.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), one of the most vocal critics of the big tech Masters of the Universe in the U.S. Senate, delivered a speech at the Hoover Institution last weekend highlighting the dangers posed by social media business models to American society.
Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram is reportedly planning to test the removal of the “like” count on photos, so users focus on content instead of “popularity.”
Radical imam and Sri Lanka bombing mastermind Mohamed Zahran Hashim wrote a series of Facebook posts before launching the Easter Sunday attacks that killed hundreds of people, in which he called for the murder of non-Muslims including women and children. The Facebook posts reportedly remained online as of Tuesday night despite numerous complaints from moderate Muslims.
Breitbart News recently spoke with the CEO of the privacy-focused social media platform Parler about the company’s plans and what makes Parler different from Big Tech’s social media platforms. Breitbart News will begin actively posting on its official Parler account in the near future.
Students around the country are sharing footage of their professors acting silly to point out that their high school teachers were wrong about the seriousness of college.
The government of Sri Lanka responded to the horrific Easter Sunday bombings by restricting access to social media sites such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Officials said they would keep the sites blocked until the counter-terrorism investigation concludes.
“Very discriminatory, hard for people to sign on,” Trump said. “Constantly taking people off list. Big complaints from many people.”
A Swedish journalist who writes for the newspaper Expressen was caught celebrating the tragic fire that engulfed the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris earlier this week.
Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram announced on Tuesday it blocked the accounts of numerous Iranian officials, including commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in compliance with U.S. sanctions.
Social media has seen a variety of reactions following the tragic fire at Paris’ iconic Notre-Dame cathedral Monday, but some users chose to mock and laugh at those expressing sorrow.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known for live-streaming herself on Instagram, said on Sunday that she has given up Facebook and is scaling back on all social media.
