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As it has been for more than a decade, Twitter became the place to look for breaking news updates following the Texas Church Massacre on Sunday. And as it has been increasingly in recent years, Twitter became a hive of lies, propaganda, misinformation, and fake news. People searching for the name of the alleged shooter […]

A Twitter employee temporarily shut down the account of President Donald J. Trump Thursday. For several minutes this afternoon, President Donald J. Trump’s personal Twitter account vanished for several minutes and then re-appeared. The outage lasted 11 minutes. “Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this […]

Freedom of speech “presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and always will be, folly; but we have staked upon it our all.”– United States v. Associated Press, 52 F. Supp. 362, 372 (S.D.N.Y. 1943) […]

The best that can be said about Twitter’s third quarter earnings is that it appears things are getting less bad for the struggling social media platform. The company is even optimistic that things may actually start to get better at some point in the not-too-distant future. But that doesn’t mean Twitter doesn’t have a few […]

(Reuters) — Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would add labels to election-related advertisements and say who is behind each of them, after a threat of regulation from the United States over the lack of disclosure for political spending on social media. Twitter, acting a month after Facebook Inc launched a similar overhaul of political […]