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The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter has accelerated after Republican senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign

Twitter has blocked a post from an adviser to President Donald Trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Tensions quickly escalated in what organizers called a free speech rally and protest held Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.

When Facebook and Twitter moved quickly this week to limit the spread of an unverified political story published by the conservative-leaning New York Post, it led to predictable cries of censorship from the right.

A widespread Twitter outage on Thursday “was caused by a system change initiated earlier then planned, affecting most of our servers,” the company said.

Twitter is imposing tough new rules that restrict candidates from declaring premature victory and tighten its measures against spreading misinformation, calling for political violence and spreading thoughtless commentary in the days leading up to and following the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Facebook said Thursday it has removed accounts from three different disinformation campaigns, each with at least loose ties to the Kremlin.

After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday from metastatic pancreatic cancer, politicians from both sides of the aisle took to social media to offer their condolences.

The service has already been on a collision course with Trump over the president’s opposition to mail-in or absentee ballots.

Speaking about the need to support schools as they reopen in the face of COVID-19, Joe Biden criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the issue Wednesday. “Get off Twitter, and start talking to the Congressional leaders in both parties. Invite them into the Oval Office,” Biden said. “You always talk about your ability to negotiate. Negotiate a deal for somebody...

Twitter removed a video from one of President Donald Trump’s tweets on Tuesday after it received a copyright complaint from Eddy Grant, the musician whose hit song “Electric Avenue” appears in the video, NBC News reports.

President Donald Trump posted a baffling tweet on Tuesday declaring that he has not had a series of “mini-strokes”— and had the White House physician release a statement backing up his claim.

An online bond hearing for a Florida teen accused of hacking prominent Twitter accounts was interrupted by rap music and pornographic videos from users who apparently disguised their names

A Florida teen arrested Friday was named by authorities as the mastermind of the takeover earlier this month of Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls that scammed people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin

A British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen were identified by authorities Friday as the hackers who earlier this month took over Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin. Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa, where the Hillsborough State Attorney’s…

The Tampa, Fla., teen is expected to make his first court appearance Saturday.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been banned from Twitter for breaking the social media platform’s site’s rules

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after a viral video was removed from social platforms on Monday after it falsely claimed the drug is a successful treatment of the coronavirus.

Donald Trump Jr. has limited access to his Twitter account after sharing a video on the social media platform that violated its Covid-19 misinformation rules, the company confirmed Tuesday.  A Twitter spokesperson called out the president’s son for violating its policy on “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to Covid-19.” The post in question, a viral video about Hydroxychloroquine being used to...