Tag: Twitter

• Saturday, June 6th 2020 - 13:31 UTC

  Twitter, Facebook, Instagram disable Trump's campaign video, citing copyright complaints

  

  Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Instagram disabled President Donald Trump’s campaign tribute video to George Floyd on their platforms on Friday, citing copyright complaints.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 08:08 UTC

  Facebook staff criticize Zuckerberg for leaving Trump’s most inflammatory verbiage unchallenged

  

  Facebook employees walked away from their work-from-home desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trump’s posts as strictly as the rival platform has done.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  Twitter suspended accounts associated with Venezuela's regime and military

  

  Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuela's government and military, including the OPEC nation's oil ministry and the armed forces' operational command.

• Thursday, October 31st 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Twitter to ban political advertising globally, beginning 22 November

  

  Twitter announced on Wednesday it would ban political advertising globally on its platform, responding to growing criticism over misinformation from politicians on social media.

• Wednesday, October 30th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  EC warns Facebook, Google, Twitter: tackle fake news or face regulatory action

  

  Facebook, Google and Twitter must do more to tackle fake news or face regulatory action, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Twitter apologizes for “inadvertently” abusing users email addresses and phone numbers

  

  Twitter said on Tuesday email addresses and phone numbers uploaded by users to meet its security requirements may have been 'inadvertently' used for advertising purposes. The micro-blogging site said the issue was rectified as of Sep 17, without disclosing how many users were impacted.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Trump's Twitter mocking Greta Thunberg backfires

  

  Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at on Tuesday at US President Donald Trump's attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile on the social media site to reflect Trump's taunting remark.

• Saturday, September 14th 2019 - 12:08 UTC

  Cuban King censor exposed to some of his own medicine by Twitter

  

  Twitter has restored some of the accounts of Cuban state-run media, journalists and government officials it had blocked on Wednesday, although others like that of Communist Party leader Raul Castro remain suspended.

• Wednesday, April 24th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Trump and Twitter's co-founder meet at the White House to protect ”the health of the public conversation

  

  US President Donald Trump has met Twitter's co-founder Jack Dorsey at the White House to discuss social media. In a statement, Twitter said the pair spoke about “protecting the health of the public conversation” ahead of the US 2020 general election.

• Tuesday, December 18th 2018 - 09:31 UTC

  Twitter warns on a “bug-in-help-form” and unusual activity from China and Saudi Arabia

  

  Twitter has warned of “unusual activity” from China and Saudi Arabia related to a bug in a help form. The bug - discovered on 15 November and fixed the day after - could have revealed the country code of users' phone numbers or if their account was locked, the company said.