• Twitter suspends Trump amid Capitol violence

    Twitter suspends Trump amid Capitol violence

    Jan 07, 2021 01:26 AM EDT

    ... risk of ongoing violence." "This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump's video," Rosen said on Twitter. Twitter initially left the video up but blocked people from being able to retweet it or comment on it. Only later in the day ...

  • Facebook and Twitter say they've made progress on content -- but lawmakers disagree

    Facebook and Twitter say they've made progress on content -- but lawmakers disagree

    Nov 17, 2020 11:50 PM EDT

    Two social media CEOs appeared virtually Tuesday before a Senate Judiciary Committee on censorship, disinformation and the 2020 election. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers about their content restrictions and classifications -- but the tech executives argued their policies have come a long way in the past...

  • WATCH: Twitter, Facebook CEOs defend election actions, promise more

    WATCH: Twitter, Facebook CEOs defend election actions, promise more

    Nov 16, 2020 11:33 PM EDT

    ... and Facebook have both slapped a misinformation label on some content from Trump, most notably his assertions linking voting by mail to fraud. On Monday, Twitter flagged Trump’s tweet proclaiming “I won the Election!” with this note: “Official sources called this election differently.” Dorsey testified that Twitter flagged some ...

  • Twitter CEO says it was wrong to block links to Biden story

    Twitter CEO says it was wrong to block links to Biden story

    Oct 16, 2020 11:54 PM EDT

    ... said. "We want to address the concerns that there could be many unintended consequences to journalists, whistleblowers and others in ways that are contrary to Twitter's purpose of serving the public conversation," she said. Twitter and Facebook had moved quickly this week to limit the spread of the story ...

  • Twitter says it will change policy on hacked content to stifle misinformation

    Twitter says it will change policy on hacked content to stifle misinformation

    Oct 16, 2020 01:17 PM EDT

    ... said. “We want to address the concerns that there could be many unintended consequences to journalists, whistleblowers and others in ways that are contrary to Twitter’s purpose of serving the public conversation,” she said. Twitter and Facebook had moved quickly this week to limit the spread of the story ...

  • YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown

    YouTube follows Twitter and Facebook with QAnon crackdown

    Oct 15, 2020 07:42 PM EDT

    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — YouTube is following the lead of Twitter and Facebook, saying that it is taking more steps to limit QAnon and other baseless conspiracy theories that can lead to real-world violence. The Google-owned video platform said Thursday it will now prohibit material targeting a person or ...

  • Three charged in massive Twitter hack, Bitcoin scam

    Three charged in massive Twitter hack, Bitcoin scam

    Jul 31, 2020 08:29 PM EDT

    “This attack relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to our internal systems,” the company tweeted. After stealing employee credentials and getting into Twitter's systems, the hackers were able to target other employees who had access to ...

  • Biden, Gates, other Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam

    Biden, Gates, other Twitter accounts hacked in Bitcoin scam

    Jul 15, 2020 11:29 PM EDT

    ... an anonymous Bitcoin address. There is no evidence that the owners of these accounts were targeted themselves. Instead, the hacks appeared designed to lure their Twitter followers into sending money to an anonymous Bitcoin account. The Biden campaign, for instance, said that Twitter's integrity team "locked down the account ...

  • Twitter disables Trump campaign's George Floyd video tribute

    Twitter disables Trump campaign's George Floyd video tribute

    Jun 05, 2020 06:19 PM EDT

    Twitter has blocked a Trump campaign video tribute to George Floyd over a copyright claim, in a move that adds to tensions between the social media platform and the U.S. president, one of its most widely followed users. The company put a label on a video posted by the ...

  • Twitter adds 'glorifying violence' warning to Trump tweet

    Twitter adds 'glorifying violence' warning to Trump tweet

    May 29, 2020 02:50 PM EDT

    ... public importance,” Twitter said on its communications account. A tweet using the same language as Trump's was later posted on the official White House Twitter account, and Twitter eventually put a warning on that too. The earlier tweets that Twitter flagged were not hidden but did come with an ...