Nation Feb 20 LISTEN: Supreme Court considers legal liability for big tech Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.
Economy Feb 08 Former Twitter executives deny being pressured by Democrats to block Hunter Biden story Former Twitter executives conceded to Congress that they made a mistake by blocking a story about Hunter Biden, the president's son, from the social media platform in the run-up to the 2020 election.
Politics Jan 25 Donald Trump is reinstated to Facebook after 2-year ban Facebook parent Meta is reinstating former President Donald Trump's personal account after two-year suspension following the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Politics Jan 24 WATCH: Justice Department sues Google, alleges digital advertising dominance harms competition The government alleges that Google’s plan to assert dominance has been to “neutralize or eliminate” rivals through acquisitions and to force advertisers to use its products by making it difficult to use competitors’ products.
Nation Dec 13 Musk’s Twitter dissolves Trust and Safety advisory group The advisory group of around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organizations was formed in 2016 to address hate speech, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform.
Economy Dec 08 FTC challenges Facebook parent Meta’s acquisition of VR company Federal regulators opened their campaign to block Facebook parent Meta's acquisition of a virtual-reality company in a San Jose, California, courtroom.
Nation Nov 18 Twitter workers continue to resign after Musk’s ‘hardcore’ ultimatum Hundreds of employees signaled they were leaving ahead of a Thursday deadline set by Musk, posting a salute emoji or other symbols familiar to Twitter workers on the company’s internal Slack messaging board.
Economy Nov 13 Outsourced content moderators lose Twitter jobs in Musk’s latest round of cuts Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is further gutting the teams that battle misinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend they were out of a job.
Nation Nov 11 Twitter Blue unavailable after flood of fake accounts Twitter's relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check "verification" labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month — is unavailable after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts approved by Twitter.
Nation Nov 09 Twitter rolls out new ‘official’ tag for some users then takes it back Twitter began adding gray "official" labels to some high-profile accounts to indicate that they are authentic, then they started disappearing. It's the latest twist in new owner Elon Musk's chaotic overhaul of the platform and its verification system.