Some very notable Twitter accounts got hacked yesterday including those of former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden, businessmen Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, and entertainer Kanye West.
The hackers used the accounts to …
Continue ReadingLogan Cook, aka @CarpeDonktum, has retained attorney Ron Coleman to defend him in a potential lawsuit over a video Cook created and posted on Twitter that mocked the mainstream press.
Cook altered a video that shows two young boys, one …
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Last week President Trump retweeted one of his followers who turned a viral video into satirical commentary on today’s politics and its representation by the mainstream media. Today that user was issued a “take down” order for that video …
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Twitter has once again shown it is not just interested in preventing the spread of “misinformation” but in waging a propaganda war against the President.
President Trump tweeted earlier today that anarchists would not be successful in creating an “autonomous …
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Updated 4/3/19 at 5:48 p.m.
Singapore may be the first nation to hold social media platforms responsible for allowing fake news to go unchecked on their platforms with a new law being proposed. The law, submitted in its parliament yesterday, …
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The CEO of social media giant Twitter contends in an interview that many of the company’s employees with conservative-leaning views are afraid to express their opinions.
“We have a lot of conservative-leaning folks in the company as well,” CEO …
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Facebook and Twitter have announced new measures aimed at combating efforts by foreign sources to interfere in U.S. elections. The moves target the kind of efforts used by Russian-linked agents in the 2016 presidential election and largely aim to increase …
Continue ReadingThe effects of the efforts of Russian operatives sitting at computer terminals half a world away on the 2016 presidential election are still being discovered nearly sixteen months after Election Day. What’s receiving much less attention though are the legal …
Continue ReadingThe aftermath of one of the deadliest school shootings in the nation’s history in Parkland, Florida, this week saw a spike in Twitter activity of accounts linked to Russian disinformation campaigns. Hamilton 68, a website that tracks the Twitter activity …
Continue ReadingNBC News has published a list of more than 200,000 tweets that Twitter has said emanated from Russian-linked accounts trying to spread disinformation during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The tweets contain inflammatory messaging and focus on divisive, partisan issues …
Continue ReadingPresident Trump revealed in an interview that he sometimes tweets from bed and occasionally lets others tweet for him. The president made the revelation in an interview with Piers Morgan on Britain’s ITV network.
“Well, perhaps sometimes in bed, …
Continue ReadingTwitter revealed to Congressional lawmakers this week that Russian bots, or automated accounts, retweeted the president nearly 470,000 times during the final weeks of the presidential election. The company had reported that it has identified 201 accounts linked to …
Continue ReadingGoogle and Twitter told Congress that they have found no evidence of Russian influence efforts in the handful of U.S. special elections held last year. The companies responded to written questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee. The questions were a …
Continue ReadingIn their latest video, Project Veritas and James O’Keefe publish a report suggesting that Twitter employees downgrade, if not ban altogether, content from a specific viewpoint they don’t agree with. More often than not it is content from a …
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