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Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene for One Week

Twitter has once again suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from its platform, this time hitting her with a one-week ban for coronavirus “misinformation.” Twitter has repeatedly censored Greene and appears to be headed towards a permanent blacklisting of her account. 

Jack Dorsey testifies to Congress

Twitter Blacklists ‘Bronze Age Mindset’ Author

Twitter has banned the account of Bronze Age Pervert (often abbreviated as BAP), the pseudonymous author of the influential Nietszchean manifesto Bronze Age Mindset. BAP has temporarily moved his communications to his Telegram channel.

Jack Dorsey testifies to Congress

Snapchat Growth Leaves Twitter in the Dust

The photo and video sharing app Snapchat is reportedly growing faster than it has since 2017, the year the company went public. Daily users soared 23 percent and revenue grew by 116 percent, growth numbers that far outpace established social media giants like Twitter.

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Twitter Tests Downvote Buttons on Replies – but Still No Edit Function

Social media website Twitter is reportedly testing a new downvote feature for tweet replies. The feature seems to be part of Twitter’s ongoing search for “conversational health,” as the feature will help the platform “understand the types of replies you find relevant in a convo, so we can work on ways to show more of them.”

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Twitter Temporarily Suspends Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene – Again

Twitter has once again suspended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), claiming that she violated the site’s policy against posting “misleading information” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The temporary suspension is yet another enforcement action by Twitter against Greene, several of which the platform described as “Mistakes.”

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Did You Post Something Stupid? Twitter Will Let You Turn Off Comments at Any Time

Twitter’s latest change to its platform allows users to turn off replies to a tweet after they’ve posted it, helping them to avoid criticism or controversy. The ability to turn off replies will help users, including verified leftist pundits, avoid the dreaded “ratio,” in which a bad tweet’s replies far outweigh its likes and retweets.

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Twitter Admits It Verified Fake Accounts – While Banning Conservatives

Twitter has admitted it added its verification checkmark, meant to ensure the public that an account is authentic, to a number of fake accounts run by bots. The platform’s shoddy verifications come after the blacklisting of high profile conservatives such as James O’Keefe, who before his banning was refused verification by the platform despite a constant flow of fake accounts mimicking him to confuse the public.

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China Trolls Trump with Invite to Heavily-Censored Weibo

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday relayed a mocking “warm welcome” from Chinese social media users to former U.S. President Donald Trump, inviting him to join China’s heavily-censored Weibo microblogging platform now that he has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter.

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Hong Kong Government: No, U.S. Big Tech Companies Not Threatening to Leave

The government of Hong Kong on Wednesday objected to U.S. media reports that several large tech companies are threatening to pull out of Hong Kong over new laws that would criminalize “doxxing,” the malicious exposure of private data, and hold platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google liable for allowing the activity.

Hong Kong's Chief Executive Carrie Lam speaks during a press conference at the government