Reuters Twitter spent $ 33m (£27m) on Elon Musk’s proposed deal to buy the firm between April and June 2022. It also said its number of monthly daily users had risen to 237m – but it reported a net loss of $ 270m, which was worse than expected. Mr Musk has since changed his mind […]
Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? Sean Gladwell / Getty Images Russia has implemented a novel censorship method in an ongoing effort to silence Twitter. Instead of outright blocking the social media site, the country is using previously unseen techniques to slow traffic to a crawl and make the site all but unusable for […]
Oprah Winfrey’s tremendously hyped interview with Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, aired Sunday night — and it made everyone think of tea. Well, at least everyone on Twitter. For days, CBS brewed interest in the event by releasing a clip in which Winfrey told the pair, “You’ve said some pretty shocking […]
Bebo’s co-founder plans to relaunch the social network with a focus on profiles and “real-time” interactions between friends rather the news feeds at the core of Twitter and Facebook. Michael Birch says his aim is to provide a “refreshing break” from the misinformation spread elsewhere. In an exclusive interview, he told the BBC he was […]
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence. LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures targeting Muslims. And […]
“I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all,” Donald Trump told us in 2016. Something else happened. Each of the big social platforms handled the challenges of the Trump presidency in its own unique way, scrambling to address or neutralize various urgent and contradictory concerns from users, advertisers, lawmakers and occasionally […]
The president’s preferred megaphone cited “the risk of further incitement of violence.” It acted after Facebook, Snapchat, Twitch and other platforms placed limits on him. OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter said on Friday that it had permanently banned President Trump from its service “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” effectively cutting him off […]
The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday locked the accounts of President Trump, which prevents him from posting messages to his more than 88 million followers […]
Dutch prosecutors confirmed Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was indeed hacked by a so-called “ethical hacker” who didn’t have to work too hard to guess Trump’s password: “maga2020!” Victor Gevers, a Dutch security expert, cooperated with investigators from the Dutch Public Prosecution Service in November and freely released information and screenshots pertaining to the […]
Livestreaming app Periscope will close down in March 2021. Twitter, which owns the app, announced the news in a message posted on its website on Tuesday, December 15. The social media company said that Periscope had seen a drop in users, adding that most of the app’s functionality had now been incorporated into the Twitter […]
Maria Bartiromo, the Fox Business anchor seen on TV six days a week, has joined a chorus of pro-Trump commentators urging followers to flock to Parler, the social network that promises no fact-checking or “editorial bullies trying to tell you what to think.” She told Parler chief executive John Matze in an interview earlier this […]
CreditCredit…The New York Times Presents/FX/Hulu The New York Times Presents: ‘The Teenager Who Hacked Twitter’ Producer/Director John PappasReporters Kate Conger and Nathaniel Popper It seemed like an inside job. Some of the world’s most famous and powerful people had been hacked on Twitter. The accounts of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and […]
Getty Images/Twitter Facebook and Twitter’s chief executives have been cross-examined by US senators for the second time in three weeks. The two were summoned to answer questions about how their platforms had limited distribution of a controversial article about Joe Biden’s son published ahead of the US election. But they have also been challenged over […]
As Election Day nears, President Donald Trump has amped up his Twitter rhetoric, furiously tweeting about his victories and attacking Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. And one account, @SuspendThePres, has been diligently following along, reposting Trump’s snippy remarks as an unusual social media experiment. The account was created by Andrew Lazar, who now volunteers on the […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Twitter hid one of President Trump’s tweets behind a notice warning users that the message violated company rules against dissuading people from voting. Mr. Trump posted the tweet, which said that ballot drop boxes were not being sanitized to prevent the coronavirus and could be used for fraud, about five hours before […]