The State Department on Monday urged social media companies to suspend the social media accounts of Iran’s leaders after they cut access to the Internet amid widespread protests in the country.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) called out Twitter over its political censorship in questions to a company spokesman during a hearing of the House Veterans Affairs Committee yesterday.
Matthew Dowd, a far-left political analyst at ABC News, was forced to delete a sexist tweet aimed at Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).
Silicon Valley, true to form, is following the lead of the mainstream media — it’s prohibiting users from talking about the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella.
On Tuesday Stelter revealed that his preferred journalistic priorities are to hit President Trump with sick Twitter burns.
As reports circulated identifying Eric Ciaramella as the alleged “whistleblower” driving efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, Wikipedia editors attempted to mention him in articles on the site. However, Wikipedia admins used their advanced privileges to delete records of his name, block creation of pages on Ciaramella, and even banned his name completely.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher defended Facebook refusing to fact-check political ads by stating he doesn’t want “political speech policed by the accuracy regulation departments” at social media companies. Maher said, “Zuckerberg has decided Facebook
Twitter has said that naming the alleged Ukraine whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, would be a breach of its rules against posting “personally identifiable information.”
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that America’s largest technology companies amount to a “growing threat to our democracy.”
Actor William Shatner got into a heated Twitter battle with some Millennials users, which began over the usage of the term “OK Boomer” — a put-down that has become popular among Millennials and Generation Z to express their irritation with Baby Boomers.
During a speech on the Senate floor on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) reacted to Twitter’s ban on political ads by stating that “Twitter will either have to ban opinion journalists and the press from advertising their own
Federal prosecutors have charged two former Twitter employees with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia after an FBI investigation found that the workers accessed private user information and dug into the accounts of critics of the Saudi government.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has settled a lawsuit brought against her by former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, who alleged that the freshman Congresswoman violated his First Amendment rights by blocking him on Twitter.
CNN’s Brian Stelter used up three-and-a-half minutes of his basement-rated Sunday show to blow the lid off of President Trump’s Twitter typos.
Prepare to be galvanized..
President Donald Trump cheered on a race horse named Covfefe, named after a mysterious message he posted on Twitter in 2017.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter to United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Friday, urging him to remove language that would enshrine Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the USMCA and the U.S.-Japan trade agreements.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg warned that 2020 is “going to be a very tough year” for the company following the announcements of the firm’s third-quarter financial results.
Twitter will ban all political ads globally, in a move that sets the platform apart from Facebook, which considered doing the same but decided against it.
Celebrity mega couple Chrissy Teigen and John Legend sounded off in unison against President Donald Trump in a Vanity Fair cover story, saying in a profanity-laced interview that the president “proves himself to be a shitty human being every day.”
‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48’. No. Not an Onion spoof of the politically correct insanity of the left-liberal media, but an actual headline from the Washington Post.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey harshly criticized Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, stating that he has a “major gap” in his free speech argument.
Left-wing actress and activist Bette Midler deleted a tweet praising the neighbor who viciously attacked Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in 2017 – a beating that resulted in lung tissue damage and multiple broken ribs for the Kentucky lawmaker.
Twitter’s stock plunged Thursday after the social media giant reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that missed expectations, with executives blaming advertising platform glitches that hurt its ability to target users.
A recent report from security and privacy experts Tutanota, which bills itself as a Google alternative, outlines how mass surveillance has become commonplace online and the effect it has on free speech.
CBS “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert ripped Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) over his secret Twitter account, saying that his chosen pseudonym of “Pierre Delecto” sounded more like “something from French-Canadian soft-core porn.”
Appearing Sunday on Axios on HBO, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) said he felt “embarrassed” to be labeled a “lurker” after confirming he has a secret Twitter account.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) dismissed 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) call to remove President Trump from Twitter and stated that when you mess with the 1st Amendment, you
“Borat” star Sacha Baron Cohen lashed out against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a profane rant, criticizing the tech billionaire for his recent speech in which he said it’s wrong for a private company to censor the news or politicians.
“Nancy Pelosi needs help fast! There is either something wrong with her ‘upstairs,’ or she just plain doesn’t like our great Country,” President Trump wrote on Twitter.
Twitter recently stated that it will restrict how users can engage with tweets from world leaders, including President Donald Trump, if the company decides their tweets break the site’s rules. Other users will not be able to reply, like, or retweet Trump and other world leader’s tweets restricted in this way. The company will algorithmically bury the tweet, making them harder to find.
