Twitter has “search blacklist” and “trends blacklist” tags on accounts, according to a purported image of an internal tool used by employees to moderate users, released via the blockbuster hack of prominent individuals yesterday.
Donald Trump Jr. and his spokesman, Andrew Surabian, are still locked out of their Twitter accounts following the platform’s shutdown of access to all verified accounts after a massive hack of prominent individuals yesterday.
Multiple verified Twitter accounts fell victim to a widespread hack that aimed to scam Twitter users into sending Bitcoin to anonymous accounts, now reports claim that hackers gained access to the accounts with the help of Twitter employees, possibly in exchange for money. The company blamed a “coordinated social engineering attack,” which implies that Twitter employees were tricked into unwittingly helping the hackers.
Former Donald Trump administration official Jim Bognet slammed Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA) as “despicable” and “desperate” for creating a fake website to falsely allege that Bognet would support eliminating protections for preexisting conditions.
The Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most powerful people, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Michael Bloomberg were compromised earlier today, with hackers using their access to tweet out a Bitcoin scam. Millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin have reportedly been transferred to the hackers.
Model and outspoken left-wing agitator Chrissy Teigen says she’s blocked more than one million Twitter users, claiming that her account has been “flooded by sick psychopaths.”
#JewishPrivilege is trending on Twitter. In fact, on Sunday it was the top trending hashtag, but not for the right reasons. It was being used to promote the idea Jews are a privileged group who, as well as controlling the world, are responsible for all of its ills, including police brutality.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has reportedly donated $3 million to fund Mayors for a Guaranteed Income (MGI) a new coalition of 15 mayors across the country launching a universal basic income pilot program.
The creator of The Office, Ricky Gervais, has called out the online “fascists” that want to shut down freedom of speech, saying that “if you’re mildly conservative on Twitter people call you Hitler.”
Major League Baseball’s social media accounts have gone woke, with dozens of Black Lives Matter posts from the league and players alike.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan demanded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey disclose documents and information relating to the social media giants’ censorship practices, the decision to fact-check President Donald Trump, and flagging the president’s tweets as abusive behavior, according to a document obtained by Breitbart News.
Professor Mike Adam of the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, will receive a $500,000 settlement in exchange for his retirement from the university just weeks after administrators faced pressure to fire Adams for a politically incorrect social media post. In May, celebrities called on the university to fire Adams over a tweet that he made about coronavirus lockdown policy.
Donald Trump’s reelection strategy should bind Joe Biden to recent lawlessness, including riots and vandalsim of monuments, said Charles Hurt.
The encrypted messaging service Telegram said on Sunday that it will temporarily refuse user data requests from Hong Kong courts due to the turmoil from the national security law imposed by Beijing.
The Never Trump Lincoln Project, led by the likes of George Conway, Steve Schmidt, and Rick Wilson, has been flagged by Twitter for spreading “manipulated media” over its presentation of a portion of President Trump’s Salute to America July 4 speech.
Disney’s debut on its streaming service of the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton over the weekend ignited renewed ire with the Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and the plays co-creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda, who locked his Twitter account just as leftists pushed “Cancel Hamilton” on the social media site.
Harry Potter author Joanne ‘JK’ Rowling has again been targeted by trans activists for warning that children believed to be “trans” should not necessarily be “shunted towards hormones and surgery”.
Scottish Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf has complained of receiving “over 6,000 racist social media posts” after he delivered a speech denouncing Scotland for having too many white people in key positions.
Nate McMurray, the Democrat candidate for New York’s 27th congressional district, urged Twitter followers Wednesday to “report” Trump supporters.
The left-wing media are making the case that President Donald Trump’s tweets are supportive of white supremacists.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan pledged tighter government control over social media on Wednesday after insults were allegedly directed at his daughter and son-in-law when they announced the birth of their child on Twitter this week, Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News reported.
Twitter censored President Donald Trump’s account yet again yesterday, taking down a meme posted by the president that featured a rallying cry to his supporters, after the New York Times, which reportedly owns the rights to the original image, filed a copyright complaint.
The Laura Loomer congressional campaign has written a letter to Attorney General Bill Barr calling for a DOJ investigation into Twitter for discrimination against conservative political candidates, which it alleges is an illegal in-kind contribution to Democrats.
Twitter restricted the account of General Michael Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell on Monday. The lawyer’s account was later restored after she proved to Twitter that she was not “spam.”
Former ESPN host and current Atlantic writer Jemele Hill, has come under attack for a ten-year-old tweet that many are calling “transphobic.”
Amazon-owned streaming service Twitch has temporarily banned the official account of President Donald Trump over “hateful conduct,” cutting the campaign off from a major platform that it uses to stream rallies and other events.
McDonald’s has changed its Twitter display name to “Amplifying Black Voices,” adding a profile banner that lists Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Alton Sterling, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd as victims of “racism” and “systemic oppression.” The
The Washington Post alleges that social media giant Facebook began to develop policies as early as 2015 that made exceptions for Donald Trump in the event that he posted content that could violate Facebook’s guidelines.
Social media platform Parler added about a million new users over the past two weeks said John Matze, CEO of Parler, attributing the “mass migration” to “frustration with censorship” on Twitter. He offered his remarks on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Joel Pollak.
President Donald Trump retweeted, then took down his comment on a video Sunday of a clash between protesters at The Villages in Florida in which a man taunted pro-Trump demonstrators as Ku Klux Klan members, and another man shouted “White Power!” in reply.
