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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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MTA's Homeless Response Garners Attention After Deleted Tweet
The criticism started when a straphanger noticed the benches were gone and reached out to the MTA in a tweet. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.
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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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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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Social Media Fallout for Trump, Allies After Capitol Riot
It’s not just Twitter and Facebook cracking down on President Trump. In the wake of the Capitol riots, Amazon has forced Parlor offline. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.
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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 Trump, Who Faces Possible Impeachment as Capitol Riot Investigation Continues
NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford and Rana Novini have team coverage of the fallout for President Trump after the Capitol riot, and the latest on the investigation into the protesters.
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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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Brooklyn Democratic Leader Called to Resign After Anti-Chinese Tweet
A leader in the Brooklyn Democratic Party faced repeated calls to resign over the weekend following a tweet other elected officials have called racist. District Leader Lori Maslow said “I can’t even look at Chinese food” in a tweet on Saturday paired with the link to a New York Times piece on tariffs for Chinese goods. The entire tweet,...
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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...