• On Twitter, Trump declares that the North Korea nuclear threat is over

    On Twitter, Trump declares that the North Korea nuclear threat is over

    Jun 13, 2018 01:04 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared on Twitter Wednesday that there was "no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea," a bold and questionable claim following his summit with leader Kim Jong Un that produced few guarantees on how and when Pyongyang would disarm. "Just landed - a long trip, but everybody ...

  • Trump asks appeals court to restore his power to block critics on Twitter

    Trump asks appeals court to restore his power to block critics on Twitter

    Jun 05, 2018 04:59 PM EDT

    NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is asking an appeals court to restore his power to block critics on Twitter. Trump's lawyers gave notice Monday that they're appealing a federal judge's ruling that says blocking people from the @realDonaldTrump account is a violation of the First Amendment. The ...

  • Trump can't block critics on Twitter for political speech, judge says

    Trump can't block critics on Twitter for political speech, judge says

    May 23, 2018 06:11 PM EDT

    NEW YORK — President Donald Trump violates the First Amendment when he blocks critics on Twitter for political speech, a judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan stopped short in her written decision of ordering Trump or a subordinate to stop the practice of blocking critics ...

  • Twitter to add special labels to U.S. political candidates

    Twitter to add special labels to U.S. political candidates

    May 23, 2018 06:07 PM EDT

    ... Both the candidate's account and the tweets from it will get labels. The labels will appear on retweets as well as tweets off of Twitter, such as when they are embedded in a news story. READ MORE: False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news Twitter ...

  • Twitter chat: The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and its deeper cultural meaning

    Twitter chat: The royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and its deeper cultural meaning

    May 17, 2018 09:13 PM EDT

    ... May 18, with Ben Carrington, an associate professor of sociology and journalism at the University of Southern California (@BenHCarrington) and Afua Adom, the newly named chief editor of Glam Africa (@afuathescot). See a rundown of Friday's Twitter Chat in the Twitter Moment below. https://twitter.com/i/moments/997571496024342529

  • Twitter chat: Rethinking the needs of today’s undergraduates

    Twitter chat: Rethinking the needs of today’s undergraduates

    May 09, 2018 07:18 PM EDT

    ... those efforts look like, and will they catch on at other colleges? To answer those questions and more, the PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) will host a Twitter chat at 12 p.m. EDT Thursday with Dr. Davis Jenkins (@DavisJenkCCRC), senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center (@CommunityCCRC), and Ashley ...

  • 'Mission Accomplished' in Syria, Trump declares on Twitter

    'Mission Accomplished' in Syria, Trump declares on Twitter

    Apr 14, 2018 02:48 PM EDT

    ... in the aftermath of his second decision in two years to fire missiles against Syria. "Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!" https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/985130802668294144 His choice of words recalled a similar claim associated with President George W. Bush following the U.S.-led invasion ...

  • Trump, White House aides fire back at Comey on Twitter

    Trump, White House aides fire back at Comey on Twitter

    Apr 13, 2018 01:01 PM EDT

    ... him." The president's latest tweets pushed back on the new book from Comey that depicts Trump as unethical and "untethered to the truth." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984763579210633216 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/984767560494313472 Trump wrote on Twitter Friday: "[Comey] is a weak and unethical slimeball who was ...

  • Twitter backs bill to make political ads online more transparent

    Twitter backs bill to make political ads online more transparent

    Apr 10, 2018 06:36 PM EDT

    Twitter says it is endorsing the Honest Ads Act, a bipartisan bill designed to make online political advertisements more transparent by revealing who paid for them, among other information. Facebook recently came out in support of the bill. The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is testifying before Congress on Tuesday ...

  • False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news

    False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news

    Mar 09, 2018 02:51 PM EDT

    ... Roy says. (Twitter is a source of funding for the LSM, but Roy says his lab is "enabled but not directed or directly influenced by Twitter"). Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. What about Facebook? Despite their focus on Twitter, the MIT researchers say their findings ...