• WATCH: Amb. Yovanovitch says Trump's Twitter attacks are 'very intimidating'

    WATCH: Amb. Yovanovitch says Trump's Twitter attacks are 'very intimidating'

    Nov 15, 2019 04:12 PM EDT

    President Donald Trump tweeted: “Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad.”

  • Trump attacks impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter

    Trump attacks impeachment witness Marie Yovanovitch on Twitter

    Nov 15, 2019 03:30 PM EDT

    Trump tweets that “everywhere” that former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch went “turned bad."

  • How the Saudi government may have used Twitter to target dissidents in the U.S.

    How the Saudi government may have used Twitter to target dissidents in the U.S.

    Nov 07, 2019 11:45 PM EDT

    ... online surveillance is actually being conducted by the Saudi government? Nick Schifrin: The indictment is very specific. It says the main recruiter of these two Twitter employees was a Saudi official and heads the private office of Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. He is basically described ...

  • U.S.: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics

    U.S.: Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on critics

    Nov 07, 2019 08:42 PM EDT

    ... began to access without authorization private data of Twitter users en masse," the complaint said. The effort included the user data of over 6,000 Twitter users, including at least 33 usernames for which Saudi Arabian law enforcement had submitted emergency disclosure requests to Twitter, investigators said. After being confronted ...

  • Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users, U.S. prosecutors say

    Saudis recruited Twitter workers to spy on users, U.S. prosecutors say

    Nov 06, 2019 10:13 PM EDT

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. prosecutors say the Saudi government recruited two Twitter employees to get personal account information of their critics. The complaint unsealed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco detailed a coordinated effort by Saudi officials to recruit employees at the social media giant to ...

  • Ocasio-Cortez apologizes to critic she blocked on Twitter

    Ocasio-Cortez apologizes to critic she blocked on Twitter

    Nov 04, 2019 08:22 PM EDT

    NEW YORK (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Monday she is sorry for blocking a former Brooklyn elected official from her Twitter account after he was critical of her. In a statement, the Democrat said she had reconsidered her decision, as part of the settlement of a federal lawsuit that ...

  • What Twitter's decision to ban political ads means for other tech giants

    What Twitter's decision to ban political ads means for other tech giants

    Oct 31, 2019 10:30 PM EDT

    ... of the Twitter decision. On the other hand, President Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, said: "This is yet another attempt to silence conservatives, since Twitter knows President Trump has the most sophisticated online program ever known." Are we seeing this rivalry of Twitter vs. Facebook becoming political and partisan ...

  • Twitter bans all political advertisements

    Twitter bans all political advertisements

    Oct 30, 2019 09:01 PM EDT

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is banning all political advertising from its service, saying social media companies give advertisers an unfair advantage in proliferating highly targeted, misleading messages. "While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be ...

  • Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, sent antisemitic tweets

    Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account was hacked, sent antisemitic tweets

    Aug 30, 2019 09:11 PM EDT

    ... account on Friday sent tweets such as "Hitler is innocent" and, using a vulgarity, asked "bald skeleton head," referring to Dorsey, to unsuspend his account. Twitter says it's investigating. The tweets were up for about 30 minutes before Twitter took them down. The company also suspended accounts that the ...

  • Twitter shutters Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests

    Twitter shutters Chinese accounts targeting Hong Kong protests

    Aug 19, 2019 09:58 PM EDT

    ... more automated Twitter accounts amplified the messages, engaging with the core accounts in the network. Few tweeted more than once, the official said, mostly because Twitter quickly caught many of them. The Twitter official said the investigation remains ongoing and there could be further disclosures. The Twitter campaign reflects the ...