Prince Harry claimed Tuesday he personally warned Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey his platform was being used as a conduit by plotters of a “coup” ahead of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol before lamenting he never had a reply – then or since.
Facebook decided last September to ban statements defending Kyle Rittenhouse as if they were support for “mass murder” — a decision that looks increasingly questionable as Rittenhouse’s lawyers make a strong self-defense case in a Kenosha court.
Tesla shares fell by five percent in morning trading after CEO Elon Musk proposed selling 10 percent of his stock in a Twitter poll. His followers voted that they would “support” his idea of selling a big chunk of his ownership in protest of claims he is avoiding taxes with “unrealized gains.”
Actor and left-wing activist Alec Baldwin “protected” his Twitter account on Tuesday — effectively controlling which users can view the star’s tweets.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) slammed far-left Silicon Valley tech giant Twitter today for censoring his official account, which was locked after he referred to Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary of health at the Department of Health and Human Services, as a man.
Conservative news and commentary site PJ Media reports that Twitter locked its account for calling Rachel Levine, the transgender assistant secretary for health, a male.
Twitter hid a trailer for Tucker Carlson’s new documentary, Patriot Purge, behind a “sensitive content filter,” a tool that hides tweets behind a warning notice that users must click through in order to view the tweet.
Saying it is a “weight lifted” off his shoulders, NFL wide receiver Cole Beasley has confirmed that he has officially deactivated his Twitter.
Far-left Pope Francis has joined the chorus of global elites calling for more Big Tech censorship, demanding “in the name of God” that tech companies crack down on “hate speech,” “fake news,” and “conspiracy theories.”
Twitter has reportedly locked Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) out of his account after he commented that the “title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man” in reaction to transgender assistant secretary of health for the HHS Rachel Levine being sworn in as a four-star admiral.
Selena Gomez deleted all her social media apps in 2017 and says the decision saved her life.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was mocked Tuesday after claiming that a “hacker” had “erased” her Twitter account — despite making this announcement from her account and with no evidence of past posts being deleted.
During a portion of an interview with PBS’ “Firing Line” released on Friday, Leopoldo López, one of the opposition leaders in Venezuela, said he is “shocked” by the fact that former President Donald Trump has been kicked off social media
If there was a common theme to the Senate testimony of Frances Haugen, the far-left Facebook “whistleblower,” it was this: social media’s habit of using algorithms to “amplify preferences” is bad, wrong, evil, and should be regulated out of existence — by people like her.
Following the catastrophic outage of Facebook services including WhatsApp and Instagram that lasted about seven hours, users took to Twitter to mock the social media giant.
Far-left extremist Matthew Dowd launched his campaign for lieutenant governor of Texas by erasing 175,000 of his tweets.
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) caused a firestorm on Twitter following his comment during his debate with Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin: “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.”
FTC Chair Lina Khan sent a memo to staff this week in which she called for the agency to focus on power imbalances and address the “structural dominance” of big companies. The memo’s mention of “next generation technologies” implies a heavy emphasis on the Big Tech Masters of the Universe.
The number of Americans who say they rely on social media platforms for news declined in 2021, with the decline driven mainly by Facebook users, although the platform still leads the pack for American online news consumption, according to a new survey from Pew Research.
Gab, one of the earliest free speech friendly alternatives to the established social media platforms, may be forced out of Germany due to the government’s insistence that it censors its users, according to CEO and founder Andrew Torba.
The New York Times has apparently removed its claim a New York Post article regarding Hunter Biden’s laptop was “unsubstantiated.”
Rapper Nicki Minaj lit the internet on fire Monday when she expressed hesitancy to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend the upcoming Met Gala, fearing potential side effects.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has given a pass to Twitter for suppressing the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story shortly before the 2020 election, effectively granting an official stamp of approval to Silicon Valley tech giants protecting a candidate from negative news stories by suppressing their reach.
Art denouncing Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey as the leader of the “TaliBAN” appeared across San Francisco on the eve of September 11th, depicting Dorsey as a bearded mullah.
Novelist Stephen King has spread misinformation on Twitter about Florida’s COVID-19 deaths, incorrectly claiming the state had 1,200 deaths in just one day in an apparent confusion between reported deaths and actual deaths that occurred that day.
Governor of Texas Greg Abbott (R) has signed a bill into law aimed at stopping social media companies from censoring their users on the basis of their political viewpoints. The law designates the Masters of the Universe as common carriers, a crucial legal distinction in the fight against political censorship.
According to recent reports, the Los Angeles Police Department instructed officers to collect social media details as part of their interview with civilians, regardless of whether or not they were implicated in a crime.
Twitter has suspended the official press account of J.D. Vance, a contender in the Republican primary for Ohio’s Senate race in the midterm elections.
Twitter is allowing a fake news story about the drug Ivermectin to go viral on its platform, despite its alleged commitment to “fact checking” so-called misinformation.
Social media giant Twitter reportedly plans to introduce a number of new privacy-related features, including one that would allow users to hide their old tweets. Twitter’s privacy changes come on the heels of the increasingly common scenario in which a user of the platform is canceled for posts made up to a decade ago on the platform.
After being halted by Democrat lawmakers’ boycott of the state legislature earlier this year, a bill aimed at reining in Big Tech censorship introduced by Republican lawmakers in Texas looks set to pass.
Twitter has permanently banned Alex Berenson, the science writer and former New York Times investigative reporter who has become one of the most prominent critics of official coronavirus policies in the west.
While Twitter allows the Taliban to propagandize on its platform, the Big Tech giant has now temporarily suspended the account for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ press secretary for allegedly violating rules on “abusive behavior.”
Twitter briefly removed Danny DeVito’s blue-check verification after the Hollywood star tweeted his solidarity with a labor strike at Nabisco, according to multiple reports.
Taliban leaders have made it clear they are in no mood for a lecture from the West on the issue of free speech.
Twitter said in a statement on Tuesday that the Taliban will be allowed to stay on its social media platform, as long as they don’t get overly violent. The company claims it will “proactively enforce our rules” but stopped short of saying it would blacklist the Taliban, as Facebook did today.
As the Taliban takes over Afghanistan and uses every media outlet available to send out its message, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) scolded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for allowing its representatives to freely speak on the platform.
Twitter has paused its verification system after mistakenly verifying a number of fake accounts. At the same time the platform was giving bots the coveted blue checkmark of verification, conservatives facing fake copycats were not granted the same privilege.
Twitter has neglected to remove, label, or fact check confirmed misinformation from a Black Lives Matter chapter in Chicago, smearing the city’s police union for a threatening email it did not send.
India’s largest opposition party, the Indian National Congress (INC) or “Congress Party,” said on Thursday it has been locked out of its Twitter account.
