USA TODAYflipped into Top Stories'We hereby claim': Twitter users claim things they don't own to mock Trump's election demandsverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Joel ShannonPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday prematurely said his campaign has "claimed" several battleground states' electoral votes, a legally meaningless demand that has inspired Twitter users to jokingly make similarly nonsensical claims. "We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of …
HuffPostJul 20, 2020Trump Now Says Face Masks Are Patriotic But Twitter Users Aren't ImpressedHuffPost - David MoyeThe president's tweet managed to combine sensible medical advice (wear a mask) with a xenophobic dog whistle (“the Invisible Chinese Virus”). It’s been more than four months since the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. and President Donald Trump is finally advocating that Americans wear face …
USA TODAYflipped into TechnologyAre Trump's days of special treatment on Twitter numbered? Post presidency, he'll be just another userverified_publisherUSA TODAY - Jefferson GrahamDonald Trump will find his Twitter feed very different after his presidency ends in January. From 2016 through now, Trump had been allowed to tweet and share things that were inflammatory and, at times, not accurate, but given leeway because he was a world leader. But "if an account is not a world …
Reuters IndiaOct 4, 2020Twitter users flood #ProudBoys hashtag with gay pride imagesReuters India - Moira Warburton2 Min Read (In Oct. 4 story, corrects self-description of Proud Boys group to “western chauvinist” instead of “white chauvinist,” in paragraph two) VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Twitter users are flooding the #ProudBoys hashtag on social media with images of LGBTQI+ pride, displacing posts made by neo-Nazis …
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTwitter will make users remove tweets hoping Trump dies of COVID-19verified_publisherTechCrunch - Kirsten KorosecPresident Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 result has made Twitter a busy place in the past 24 hours, including some tweets that have publicly wished — some subtly and others more directly — that he die from the disease caused by coronavirus. Twitter put out a reminder to folks that it doesn’t allow …
Business Insiderflipped into Tech InsiderTwitter labels Trump's tweet about the Supreme Court's ruling on Pennsylvania mail-in ballots as misleading and blocks users from sharing and likingverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Tyler SonnemakerTwitter on the eve of Election Day, labeled yet another tweet from President Donald Trump for violating its policies against spreading election-related misinformation and prevented users from sharing or liking the tweet. Trump tweeted Monday evening — without evidence — that a recent decision by the …
CBS Newsflipped into U.S. NewsTwitter users take over Proud Boys hashtag with photos of LGBTQ loveverified_publisherCBS News - By April SieseTwitter users have reclaimed the Proud Boys hashtag with photos and tweets depicting LGBTQ love in an effort to divert attention from the …
Matt Magnusonflipped into IoT: Security & PrivacyUh-oh: Twitter says hackers swiped personal data during the big verified user hackverified_publisherMashable - Matt BinderThe data was stolen from...unverified users. More and more new information has been coming out about the massive Twitter hack that went down on Wednesday. However, the latest update from Twitter itself is cause for concern. In an update posted on Friday night, Twitter ran down what its internal …
The Evening Standardflipped into News | Evening StandardTwitter ‘inadvertently’ stops users sharing Donald Trump’s false claims of electoral fraudstandard.co.uk - Daniel O'MahonyTwitter said it “inadvertently” stopped users from sharing tweets by Donald Trump that repeated false allegations of election fraud on Saturday. For …
CBS NewsOct 3, 2020Facebook, Twitter and TikTok ban users from wishing for Trump's death from COVID-19verified_publisherCBS News - By Sophie LewisFollowing President Trump's positive COVID-19 diagnosis, social media companies have voiced a clear message: Any content that wishes for the death of …
TechCrunchflipped into Top StoriesTwitter is now allowing users to share that controversial New York Post storyverified_publisherTechCrunch - Anthony HaTwitter has taken another step back from its initial decision to block users from sharing links to or images of a New York Post story reporting on emails and other data supposedly originating on a laptop belonging to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The story, which alleged …
Business Insiderflipped into Social MediaTwitter says it 'inadvertently' blocked users from liking and replying to some of Trump's tweets about the election that violated its rulesverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Connor PerrettTwitter on Saturday appeared to take further steps to prevent its users from interacting with tweets from President Donald Trump that shared inaccurate information about the 2020 election, briefly blocking users from liking and replying to some of his tweets before it backtracked. Several users …
MashableJul 16, 2020Twitter releases statement about crypto scam hack, keeps affected users locked outverified_publisherMashable - Caitlin Welsh"We... will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely." Twitter has released an official statement on the hack that saw some of the biggest accounts on the platform pushing a bitcoin scam. On Wednesday, verified accounts including Barack Obama, Joe …
ZDNetJul 23, 2020Twitter says hackers accessed DMs for 36 users in last week's hackverified_publisherZDNet - Catalin CimpanuHackers targeted 130 accounts, tweeted on behalf of 45, and downloaded data from eight. Twitter has provided another update in its investigation into …
Fox Newsflipped into Latest NewsTwitter users confused by video of home chef rinsing off ground beef: 'Screamed'verified_publisherFox News - Janine PuhakThere go our appetites. Though many have experimented in the kitchen this year, some social media users now have a beef among one another after debating whether or not a home chef was in the wrong for rinsing out cooked ground beef. A TikTokker recently caught heat on Twitter after uploading a …
Fox Newsflipped into Latest NewsTarget reverses decision to pull book called 'transphobic' by Twitter user after facing censorship backlashverified_publisherFox News - Joseph A. WulfsohnTarget sparked an outcry among critics last week when the big box retailer initially announced it was pulling a book that one Twitter user deemed "transphobic" before reversing its decision amid backlash. The book at the center of the controversy is "Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze …
CNBCflipped into Top NewsTwitter backtracks and allows users to share New York Post story about Bidensverified_publisherCNBC - Salvador RodriguezTwitter on Friday reversed its controversial editorial decision to block users from sharing a New York Post story that claims to show "smoking gun" …
archwizardflipped into Tech | Gear | Internet'We're Embarrassed': Twitter Says High-Profile Hack Hit 130 Usersverified_publisherNPR - Colin DwyerTwitter says a total of 130 accounts were hacked in some fashion during a cybersecurity breach on Wednesday that affected some of its most prominent users, including Joe Biden and Kanye West. In a blog post updating the situation as of Friday night, the company explained that the perpetrators …
Business Insiderflipped into Tech InsiderTwitter slapped yet another Trump tweet about mail-in voting with a 'misleading' label and stopped other users from retweeting itverified_publisherBusiness Insider - Isobel Asher HamiltonPresident Donald Trump has been fact-checked by Twitter. Again. Trump tweeted about mail-in voting on Monday, claiming there were "big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA." He continued: "Must have final total on November 3rd." Twitter, in response, placed a label above …
The Guardianflipped into World NewsTwitter down: social media platform suffers global outage with users unable to postverified_publisherThe Guardian - Matilda BoseleyMillions of users left unable to tweet or share stories for more than an hour Twitter has suffered multiple outages in many countries across the world, leaving millions of users unable to post to its platform. The company confirmed that an “inadvertent change” made to its internal systems had caused …
CNETJul 23, 2020Twitter apologizes for massive hack as revenue slumps, users soarverified_publisherCNET - Queenie WongThe company has taken a financial hit amid the pandemic but has seen a big jump in the number of people flocking to the site.
EngadgetNov 17, 2020Twitter users say fleets are ripe for harassmentverified_publisherEngadget - Karissa BellThe company says it’s ‘listening to feedback,’ and working on some fixes. Just hours after Twitter’s new fleets feature first launched to most people, some users are questioning whether the company did enough to account for all the ways its new Stories-like feature could be used for harassment. For …
POLITICOOct 16, 2020In reversal, Twitter lets users link to unverified New York Post reportverified_publisherPOLITICO - By Cristiano LimaThe company also appeared to stop displaying a warning for users who clicked on the report. Twitter reversed course Friday on blocking users from posting an unverified New York Post report alleging ties between Joe Biden and his son’s business interests, hours after reaffirming a ban that drew a …
Bloombergflipped into BloombergTwitter Must Unmask User Tied to Seth Rich Murder Conspiracyverified_publisherBloomberg - Robert BurnsonTwitter Inc. was ordered to identify an anonymous user who is accused of helping promote a conspiracy theory about murdered Democratic National …
