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Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts associated with pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy
Twitter announced Mon it has suspended “a lot more than 70,000 accounts” from the QAnon conspiracy theory following a attack on the US Capitol by a good mob of President Donald Tru...
Twitter permanently suspends Trump's account
US President Donald Trump has been permanently suspended from Twitter "as a result of risk of further incitement of violence", the company says.Twitter said the decision was made "...
'More power than classic media': Facebook, Twitter policies attacked
Republican senators in Tuesday attacked the principle executives of Facebook and Twitter for what they called censorship of President Trump and his allies during the U.S. election...
Twitter launches 'Fleets' - tweets that disappear after a day
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had been globally launching tweets that disappear after a day, like the stories feature that is popular on Snapchat and Facebook's photo-sharing appl...
Twitter's new 'fleets' will disappear after 24 hours
Twitter said Tuesday it was rolling out tweets which disappear after a day, joining rival public platforms in offering ephemeral messages.The brand new "fleets" which have been tes...
Twitter, Facebook proceed to curb election manipulation by Russia, China affiliates
Twitter and Facebook on Thursday announced moves to thwart efforts to deceive or divide voters as the US nears a contentious presidential election.Twitter unveiled new steps to avo...
Porn, rap interrupt Twitter hacking suspect’s Zoom hearing
The online bond hearing for a Florida teen accused of hacking prominent Twitter accounts was interrupted Wednesday by rap music and pornographic videos from users who apparently di...
Twitter, Facebook block accounts of Bolsonaro allies for disinformation
Twitter and Facebook suspended the accounts Friday of 16 allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after a Supreme Court judge ordered them blocked as part of a probe into an al...
Twitter crackdown no work with, QAnon now among conservative mainstream
Twitter’s decision to crack down on the conspiracy-theory mongering of QAnon underscores the loose-knit group’s increasing reach in to the mainstream folks politics.From an anonymo...
Twitter hack, a good breach that hit 130 accounts, highlights flaw with platform
Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of a few of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people. The hackers were able to reset the passwords of 45 of these account...
Twitter disables Trump's tweet over copyright violation
Twitter Inc disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint.The video, including music from the group Linkin Park, d...
Not Russia, simply a group of young hackers in charge of Twitter attack: NYT
Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals without links to convey or organized crime, The New York Times reported Friday....
Govt issues notice to Twitter seeking details on Indian users afflicted by hack
India’s cybersecurity nodal agency CERT-In has issued a notice to Twitter asking the micro-blogging platform for full information on the recent global hack targeting high-profile u...
Tech This Week | The non public Data Protection Bill in the context of the Twitter hack
When you have not been following the news, earlier this week, Twitter was the main topic of an extremely public data breach. A whole lot of high profile accounts were hacked, inclu...
Twitter accounts of major personalities hijacked in massive hack
The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin, in an eno...
Twitter accounts of Apple, Musk, Gates, others hit in major hack
The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe persons into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin, in an en...