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Poet Amanda Gorman Says She Was Profiled by Security Outside Her Apartment
Poet Amanda Gorman said she was racially profiled outside her apartment when a security guard tailed her on her walk home, NBC News reports. Though she did not disclose where the incident happened in her post to her social media Friday night, Gorman’s Twitter profile lists her location as Los Angeles. “He demanded if I lived there because ‘you look suspicious.’...
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Twitter Cracks Down on COVID Vaccine Misinformation
Twitter says it has begun labeling tweets that include misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines
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Twitter to Uphold Permanent Ban Against Trump, Even If He Were to Run for Office Again
Twitter will uphold its ban on former President Donald Trump, even if he were to run for office again, according to the company’s chief financial officer.
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Twitter Permanently Bans My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell
Twitter has permanently banned My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell’s account after he continually perpetuated the baseless claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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NBCUniversal Is Bringing Its Live Events to Twitter Users Globally
The deal is an effort to expand both the media company’s and social media giant’s advertising and audience reach.
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Where Hate Groups Are Moving Online
Since the attack on Capitol Hill, popular social media companies like Facebook and Twitter have been kicking extremists off their platforms. I-Team’s Lolita Lopez reports for NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Jan. 22, 2021.
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Twitter Bans Suspect Iran Account After Post Threatens Trump
Twitter says it’s permanently banned an account that some in Iran believe is linked to the office of the country’s supreme leader, after a posting that seemed to threaten former President Donald Trump
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‘Tonight': Hashtags #MyWorstCar
Jimmy Fallon reads his favorite tweets with the hashtag #MyWorstCar.
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@POTUS Resets as Twitter Juggles Presidential Accounts
It’s a Twitter user’s worst nightmare: Wake up to find most of your followers gone.
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Twitter Suspends GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Twitter on Sunday temporarily suspended the account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican U.S. Congresswoman from Georgia who has expressed racist views and support for QAnon conspiracy theories online.
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Twitter CEO Defends Trump Ban, Cites Threats to Physical Safety
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended the company’s decision last week to permanently ban President Donald Trump. “After a clear warning we’d take this action, we made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,” Dorsey said in a thread on Twitter, talking about the ban for the first time....
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Social Media Crackdown Continues After Siege of US Capitol
Social media platforms are continuing to crack down on fringe groups and conspiracy theories following last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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SFPD Braced for Protest at Twitter HQ, But it Didn't Materialize
The San Francisco Police Department on Monday morning braced for the possibility of a protest outside Twitter headquarters in response to the social media company permanently suspending President Donald Trump. But the protest never materialized.
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Parler Squeezed as Trump Seeks New Online Megaphone
Though stripped of his Twitter megaphone, President Donald Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach
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A Farewell to @realDonaldTrump, Gone After 57,000 Tweets
The Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, which grew from the random musings of a reality TV star into the cudgel of a president, has died
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Twitter Bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon Account Purge
Twitter on Friday removed the accounts of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other high-profile supporters of President Donald Trump that promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory.
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Twitter Locks President Trump's Account After ‘Repeated and Severe Violations'
Twitter locked the account of President Donald Trump after the removal of three Tweets that repeated “severe violations” of Twitter’s Civic Integrity policy.
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Biden's Pick to Head OMB Brings Experience, Twitter Enemies
Neera Tanden, currently president of the Democratic-aligned think tank Center for American Progress, has spent years fighting online against both Republican legislators and leftist critics of her longtime boss Hillary Clinton
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‘Late Night' Amber Says What: Racist Twitter Drama, Patti LaBelle
“Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin recaps what’s happening in pop culture news.
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Twitter Fleets — How to Use the Social Media Platform's New Feature
Tweets, meet Fleets. Twitter unveiled its own version on Tuesday of the ephemeral stories found on other platforms with Fleets, which are tweets that disappear after 24 hours and cannot receive likes, retweets or public replies. The only way another Twitter user can reply to a Fleet is privately via direct message. The feature makes it “easier than ever to...