Twitter Paves Way For Trump Ban With New Content Rules For World Leaders
By Tyler Durden Twitter has announced new rules governing how they will now treat world leaders’ accounts, making clear that certain content will result in…
Twitter “Unintentionally” Used Your Phone Number for Targeted Advertising
By Gennie Gebhart and Jacob Hoffman-Andrews Stop us if you’ve heard this before: you give a tech company your personal information in order to use…
Google, Twitter, Facebook Met Government Officials To Devise Election Measures
By Aaron Kesel Representatives for Google, Facebook and Twitter met with DHS officials at Facebook’s headquarters to devise 2020 election measures against the spread of…
Indian Government Asks Twitter to Remove Accounts “Spreading Rumours” About Kashmir
By Rezwan On August 5, India’s BJP-led government revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution that gave special autonomy status to the disputed state of…
How the Turkish Government Exploits Social Media Removal Requests to Silence Criticism
By Arzu Geybullayeva On August 4, the Ankara Criminal Court of Peace issued an order to withhold four Twitter accounts in Turkey. The order affects the…
“Human Rights Activists” Celebrate Facebook-Twitter Censorship
Op-Ed by Joseph Thomas All Facebook and Twitter accounts associated with Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst Tony Cartalucci have been deleted. The extent to which both American-based…
Twitter Restores Assange Activism Account In Response To Backlash
By Caitlin Johnstone After a week of vocal protests from online supporters of Julian Assange, Twitter has reversed its unjust removal of the prominent pro-Assange…
FBI to Ramp Up Surveillance of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
By Tyler Durden The FBI plans to step up its efforts to gather information from social media – issuing a call last week for a new…
Top Assange Defense Account Deleted By Twitter
By Caitlin Johnstone One of the biggest Twitter accounts dedicated to circulating information and advocacy for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, @Unity4J, has been completely removed…
Twitter Admits to “Inadvertently” Collecting, Sharing Location Data Due to “Bug”
By Tyler Durden (ZH) – Twitter announced on Monday that it “inadvertently” collected and shared iOS location data due to a software bug. In a blog post,…
Crackdown in Beijing: “Using Twitter is more dangerous than street demonstrations”
By Oiwan Lam Authorities in Beijing have launched a nationwide crackdown on mainland Chinese Twitter users. The December 5 release of 42 testimonies collected by…
Keep Government Away From Twitter
Op-Ed by Matthew Feeney Twitter recently re-activated Jesse Kelly’s account after telling him he was permanently banned from the platform. The social media giant informed…
Twitter Can Collect Your Data Even If You Log Out And Delete The App
By Mac Slavo Twitter is able to track and collect your online activity data even you have chosen to log out and delete their app….
1984: Twitter Removing Accounts That Tweet Infowars Material
By Aaron Kesel Twitter is removing accounts that tweet out and support Alex Jones and his website www.infowars.com. Yahoo News reports the company confirmed the…