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Twitter, Facebook briefly suspend Trump accounts in response to storming of US Capitol


January 7, 2021

Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc and Snap Inc temporarily locked the accounts of United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as tech giants scrambled to crack down on his baseless claims about the US presidential election amid riots in the capital. Twitter hid and mandated the removal of three of Trump’s tweets “as a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation …

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Twitter, Facebook push back on Trump’s election posts


November 4, 2020

Facebook and Twitter faced tests of the rules they announced to handle premature claims of victory in the United States election as they flagged some of President Donald Trump’s comments on the vote, which remained too close to call. Twitter hid a Trump tweet that said “we are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election” behind a label that …

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Twitter, TikTok discuss potential combination


August 10, 2020

NEW YORK: Twitter is in preliminary discussions for a possible combination with TikTok, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, after US President Donald Trump said he would ban the app, calling it a threat to national security. Trump declared that the popular Chinese video app TikTok and social network WeChat “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.” In an …

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Twitter, TikTok discuss potential combination: WSJ


August 9, 2020

Twitter is in preliminary discussions for a possible combination with TikTok, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, after US President Donald Trump said he would ban the app, calling it a threat to national security. Trump declared Thursday that the popular Chinese video app TikTok and social network WeChat “threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.” In …

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Twitter, Periscope services disrupted in Pakistan


May 18, 2020

Popular social networking site, Twitter, was down in Pakistan, from a little after 10pm on Sunday. Despite this, #TwitterDown was the top trend in the country. Internet blockage observatory NetBlocks confirmed the disruption to Twitter and Periscope “with multiple impact to multiple networks”. A screengrab of the information tweeted by NetBlocks. In a later tweet, the organisation said: “Our study …

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Twitter, Facebook accuse China of HK discord campaign


August 20, 2019

Twitter and Facebook have accused the Chinese government of backing a social media campaign to discredit Hong Kong´s pro-democracy movement and sow political discord in the city. The American tech giants announced Monday they had suspended nearly 1,000 active accounts linked to the campaign, while Twitter said it had shut down about 200,000 more before they could inflict any damage. “These …

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YouTube, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook responding more quickly to hate speech: EU


February 4, 2019

Brussels -Internet giants have more than doubled the rate at which they fight hate speech online than when they joined the European Union´s voluntary approach in 2016, EU officials said Monday. Firms like YouTube, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook are now assessing 89 percent of flagged content within 24 hours and removing 72 percent of content deemed illegal, the officials said. …

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