Tag: Twitter

The vital role of Twitter in responding to Covid (John Villasenor, Brookings)

Twitter, and social media in general, often get a bad rap. Social media is criticized, and rightly so, for harboring hate speech, misinformation, political...

Twitter’s new CEO is latest on list of India-born US tech honchos (Vlad Savov and Saritha Rai, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera)

Twitter Inc. on Monday became the latest Silicon Valley titan to appoint an Indian-born chief executive officer, joining the likes of Microsoft and Google...

Can Twitter warnings actually curb hate speech? A new study says yes (Issie Lapowsky, Protocol)

Twitter in May said it would begin prompting users who are about to tweet something nasty to either revise or delete the message before sending. The...

India/Rahul Gandhi/Twitter – Blocked by Twitter for political reasons: India’s Rahul Gandhi (Al Jazeera)

Gandhi's Twitter account has 19.5 million followers Rahul Gandhi, the leader of India’s main opposition party, has slammed Twitter for blocking a tweet over...

Nigeria – Nigeria’s Twitter ban is a misplaced priority (Brookings)

Source: Authors, using data from Twitter Mary Blankenship and Christina Golubski In early June 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter after the platform...

(TechInnovation) Twitter has confirmed that Fleets is shutting down on August 3.

Ingrid Lunden writes for TechCrunch: Twitter has confirmed that Fleets — its own take on ephemeral Stories that it launched into general availability just...

India/Kashmir/Twitter – Hindu group files case against Twitter over ‘distorted’ India map (Al Jazeera)

A Hindu group has filed a complaint with police against Twitter’s country head for showing regions outside a map of India on its website,...

TechInnovation – Twitter adds ‘Arabic (feminine)’ language setting in inclusion, diversity drive (Al Arabiya)

Twitter on Tuesday introduced an “Arabic (feminine)” language setting enabling the social media site to speak to users using feminine grammar, part of what...

(USA) Twitter bans MyPillow CEO (Christopher Cadelago, David Cohen, Politico)

Mike Lindell had promoted conspiracy theories about the presidential election. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/26/twitter-bans-mypillow-ceo-462531

(China/Twitter/Diplomacy) China urges Twitter to discard double standards after it locks embassy account over Xinjiang post (Global Times)

A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Thursday urged US social media platform Twitter to discard double standards in response to Twitter's restriction of China's...

(Turkey/Twitter/Pinterest) Turkey hits Twitter and Pinterest with ad ban for resisting new social media law (Middle East Eye)

Ragip Soylu Twitter and Pinterest have yet to assign a legal representative in Turkey, leading ministers to warn of 'digital fascism' https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-twitter-pinterest-ad-ban-social-media-law

(USA/Twitter/Marjorie Taylor Greene) Twitter suspends QAnon-linked Republican lawmaker’s account (The New Arab)

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a newly elected Republican congresswoman, has been temporarily suspended on Twitter for 'multiple violations' https://english.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2021/1/18/twitter-suspends-qanon-linked-republican-lawmakers-account

(USA) Twitter’s ban on Trump strips US of ‘moral high ground’ in criticizing others on freedom of speech: observers (Global Times)

Social media's permanent silencing of US President Donald Trump again exposed the country's double standards, and stripped Washington's "moral high ground" in lecturing other...

Twitter, Facebook freeze Trump’s accounts after Congress assault (Al Jazeera)

Social media giants Twitter and Facebook temporarily locked the accounts of US President Donald Trump, as they scrambled to crack down on his baseless...

TWITTER/USA ELECTIONS – Twitter brings back old retweet function after US election (Al Arabiya)

Twitter Inc is reversing changes made to its retweet function intended to curb the spread of misinformation during the US presidential election, the company...

USA – How should Facebook and Twitter handle Trump after he leaves office? (Mishaela Robison and Darrell M. West, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/12/02/how-should-facebook-and-twitter-handle-trump-after-he-leaves-office/