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Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website
Move comes as publishers sue in India to block public access
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Why Deplatforming Might Be Useless — Or Worse — in Combating Right-Wing Violence
The science isn’t clear yet — but there might be a moderating effect to more public forums like Facebook and Twitter
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Twitter loses $5 billion in market value after Trump is permanently barred from the platform
Twitter stock fell as much as 12% on Monday after the social-media company permanently suspended President Donald Trump's account on Friday evening. The share-price decline wiped $5 billion from Twitter's market capitalization. Twitter's bosses suspended Trump's account - which had about 88 million followers - after the world leader's fanning of conspiracy theories about voter fraud and election theft spurred thousands of his supporters to lay siege to the Capitol last week.
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Twitter, in Widening Crackdown, Removes Over 70,000 QAnon Accounts
The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.
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Twitter deletes China embassy's Xinjiang 'emancipation' tweet
China had claimed its birth control policies - widely seen as a crackdown - gave women more freedom.
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The Guy Who Built a Trump Twitter Archive Says He’ll Follow Him to Parler If He Has To
“I wasn't thinking that it would just disappear one day.”
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Says Donald Trump Will Go Down In History As Worst President Ever
Arnold Schwarzenegger has branded Donald Trump ‘a failed leader’ and said he will go down as ‘the worst president ever’ in a new video. Posting to Twitter, the actor recalled his childhood growing up in Austria and the long-lasting impact of the Night of Broken Glass, ‘a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys,’ he said.
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Twitter confirms it halted "hang Mike Pence" as trending topic
The topic trended briefly, with many people quoting Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol Wednesday chanting the phrase as a noose awaited outside.
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Twitter plays whack-a-mole with Donald Trump's tweets as he blasts 'ban on free speech'
Donald Trump has accused Twitter of trying to silence him. Twitter engaged in a game of whack-a-mole deleting tweets from Donald Trump off various accounts on its site, after banning the US president from his main account over fears his tweets could incite further violence in the Capitol.
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Twitter suspends Trump's account
None of his previous tweets can be seen.
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Twitter should immediately and permanently ban Trump
Opinion: As should Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and all other responsible social media sites. The right to free speech doesn't give you the right to right to shout fraud in a fractured country.
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Twitter Did Not Love 'Wonder Woman 1984'
After a long wait, Wonder Woman 1984 hit HBO Max and theaters on Christmas Day. It's the first Warner Bros. film to be released on a streaming site at the same time as its theater release date with no extra cost to viewers. That's exciting news, but after watching the film yesterday, some fans are not too enthusiastic.
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Twitter will begin warning you a tweet is misleading even if you're just liking it
It may continue slowing down the spread of misinformation.
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Twitter launches disappearing 'fleets' worldwide
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it was globally launching tweets that disappear after 24 hours, similar to the stories feature that is popular on Snapchat and Facebook's photo-sharing app Instagram.
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Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
Social media giant Twitter Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world's best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.
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Twitter permanently suspends Steve Bannon account after talk of beheading
Twitter permanently suspended an account belonging to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon after he suggested Thursday morning that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded. His comments were made in a video posted to his Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter accounts.
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QAnon conspiracy bots are taking over Twitter
Americans who seek political insight and information on Twitter should know how much of what they are seeing is the result of automated propaganda campaigns. Nearly four years after my collaborators and I revealed how automated Twitter accounts were distorting online election discussions in 2016, the situation appears to be no better.
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Shell’s climate poll on Twitter backfires spectacularly
A climate poll on Twitter posted by Shell has backfired spectacularly, with the oil company accused of gaslighting the public. The survey, posted on Tuesday morning, asked: “What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions?”
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Jack Dorsey: Twitter has no influence over elections
The claim is sure to stir irritation on both the right and left.
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Twitter follows Facebook in banning Holocaust denial
"Attempts to deny or diminish" violent historical events, including the Holocaust, will be banned from Twitter, a spokeswoman told Business Insider.
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