A couple of days ago, the all-time famous Elon Musk decided to finally call it quits with crypto scams. He tweeted to the founder of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, seeking his kind assistance with the nerve wrecking tricks of scam bots.

Twitter’s permanent ban is an important symbolic gesture.

An online community at this scale has perverse and dangerous consequences.

Study discovered several accounts, now known to belong to the same Russian trolls who interfered in the US election, tweeting about vaccines

Twitter suspended the accounts of Vice Magazine co-founder Gavin McInnes and his far-right Proud Boys group Friday afternoon. The suspension came ahead of this weekend’s “Unite the Right” rally in Washington D.C.

Following last week’s suspension of 284 accounts for “engaging in coordinated manipulation,” Twitter announced today that it’s kicked an additional 486 accounts off the platform for the same reason, bringing the total to 770 accounts. While many of the accounts removed last week appeared to originate from Iran, Twitter said this time that about 100 of the latest batch to be suspended claimed to be in the United States. Many of these were less than a year old and shared “divisive commentary.” These 100 accounts tweeted a total of 867 times and had 1,268 followers between them.

A technical glitch in the FBI system created an online firestorm.

Apparently sick of being criticized by everyone from US Congress to Seth Rogan for not doing enough to purge its platform of bots, trolls, and malicious foreign actors, Twitter has started liberally dropping the ban hammer on suspicious accounts, suspending more than 70 million users over the course of May and June.

It's like 2016 all over again.

Twitter's solution against the growing cryptocurrency "giveaway" scam epidemic is to lock accounts using the display name Elon Musk.

Let the past die; kill it, if you have to. If you’re on Twitter period, it’s a good idea to take precautions around your tweet history.

Twitter has suspended far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones from its platform for one week. The news was first shared by an InfoWars personality, who tweeted a screenshot of Jones' Twitter account -- indicating the company limited some of Jones' account features temporarily. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the screenshot.

Several eras ago—before algorithms came to dictate our every breath and Nazis re-infiltrated popular discourse via extremely uncreative and shitty memes—Twitter was alright. Now it’s a suckhole that eats negativity and barfs conflict. The developers of indie classic Sword & Sworcery don’t want anything to do with it anymore.

Armed with various analyses of how users of the platform interact with and receive information from U.S. politicians and news outlets online, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey plans to firmly refute accusations that the social network is inherently biased against conservatives or doing anything to silence their tweets. In pre-written testimony, Dorsey—slated to appear before the House Energy & Commerce Committee on Wednesday—asserts it is a “foundational fact” that Twitter does not make decisions based on political ideology...

From Keith R. Dumbass

The handle, @JulianAssange, went down late Sunday evening, before the start of Christmas.

In the wake of Trump’s victory, I built a bot to expose bigots. Then Twitter suspended it — and kept the bigots.

No more safety net for Facebook, Twitter and their peers.

If you spend much time on political Twitter -- or the more fun elements of the self-described "Weird Twitter" -- then you're probably already quite aware of the truly wonderful @pixelatedboat account. That account's biggest claim...

"What we can do is terrifying. We have full access to every single person's account, every single direct message, deleted direct messages, deleted tweets. I can tell you who exactly logged in from where, what username and password, when they changed their password."

Twitter accounts linked to Russian influence operations have begun promoting the hashtag #ReleaseTheMemo.

Developers of platforms such as Facebook have admitted that they were designed to be addictive. Should we be following the executives’ example and going cold turkey – and is it even possible for mere mortals?

Russian bots and their American allies gamed social media to put a flawed intelligence document atop the political agenda. That should alarm us.

Twitter Inc. soared the most since its market debut in 2013 after it posted the first growth in four quarters, driven by improvements to its app and added video content that are persuading advertisers to boost spending on the social network.

The news coverage will come from local broadcasters.

The indictment of 13 Russians charged with attempting to manipulate American voters using social media shines a fascinating light on a sophisticated, relentless operation to exploit the internet for political gain. Here's how US investigators say the Russians did it. It was 2014, and in a building in St Petersburg, the Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) was already hard at work building its arsenal to take on US politics.

Twitter has seemingly suspended thousands of suspected bot accounts, and some conservatives are claiming it’s a deliberate political crackdown.

Social media giants Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. should be fined if they don’t weed out automated accounts, or bots, trying to influence U.S. public opinion, said Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar. “I think that would be a great idea,” Klobuchar, of Minnesota, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday when asked whether the companies should face fines if they fail to act after the government discovers the bots. The comments come after the Justice Department on Feb. 16 indicted Russians associated with the Internet Research Agency...

A modest proposal to improve Twitter—and perhaps the world.

Twitter Inc will start banning cryptocurrency advertising from Tuesday, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown that seeks to avoid giving publicity to potential fraud or large investor losses.

At least one advertiser says it's removing ads after Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg called for a boycott of Ingraham's Fox News show.

California has proposed legislation that would require social platforms like Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. to identify automated accounts, or bots, amid a push by state lawmakers to police the technology companies that have proven vulnerable to manipulation and the spread of fake news.