Twitter censored an account known for sharing videos from Wuhan showing scenes of a city on lockdown during the coronavirus.
Harry Chen PhD, whose now-suspended account had 35,000 followers and claimed to live in China on his bio, had…
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February 25, 2020
Update: A Twitter spokesperson informed the MRC that the tweet had been censored in error. The filter has since been removed.
Twitter apparently considers direct quotes from Bernie Sanders about Castro and Cuba too “sensitive…
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February 24, 2020
Can Bloomberg’s money hack the election? Twitter moderators would disagree.
Twitter reportedly suspended 70 pro-Bloomberg accounts this past Friday for engaging in “platform manipulation.” For all of former New York City…
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February 20, 2020
A leaked demo revealed a new system that may change the way Twitter users get information on the platform.
NBC News reports Twitter confirmed a leaked demo of upcoming anti-“misinformation” features, reported NBC News. The…
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February 19, 2020
Liberal billionaire 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is willing to spend $2 billion to defeat President Donald Trump, and he continues to put his money where his mouth is.
Advertising Analytics, which provides…
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February 18, 2020
The origin of the coronavirus is still being debated, but Twitter has responded to one skeptic outlet by censoring it.
The ZeroHedge founder reportedly, under the pseudonym Tyler Durden, asked “Is This The Man Behind The Global…
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February 17, 2020
Former President Barack Obama, touting his own economic magic wand, tried to take credit for the Trump economy.
Obama sent out the self-congratulatory tweet February 17. He said that, “Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the…
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February 17, 2020
In a country where the squeaky wheel gets the grease, the Democratic Party may be getting led astray by a small but vocal minority on social media.
A Pew Research Center study released February 3 found that “The political views…
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February 17, 2020
Twitter defines “sensitive content” as something that might contain “violence or nudity.” So why did a photo of a Nascar racer and the president get flagged by the platform as potentially sensitive content?
NASCAR…
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February 14, 2020
The left went bonkers on Twitter when news broke that Big Tech billionaire Larry Ellison was hosting a pro-Trump fundraiser at his estate.
Lefty outlet Vox Recode characterized the billionaire founder of Oracle Corporation's …
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February 13, 2020
Major social media platforms are removing Iranian disinformation and coordinated behavior from their platforms. But Republicans don’t think that’s enough.
Four Republican senators wrote a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on…
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February 12, 2020
A wealthy billionaire tech CEO has endorsed the economically irresponsible concept of a universal basic income. Unfortunately for him, its advocate Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has dropped out of the race.
Twitter head…
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February 10, 2020
Twitter bans accounts for transphobia and won’t allow pro-life organizations to run ads on its platform. But a cartoon encouraging terrorism is apparently allowed to spread.
The video, tweeted out by a pro-Palestine account, depicts…
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February 10, 2020
President Donald Trump tweeted an edited video that showed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi repeatedly tearing up the State of the Union speech, with other clips of the president’s successes pieced in the video.
Democrats were…
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February 6, 2020
President Donald Trump’s presence on Twitter receives almost countless mentions in the media. Imagine what that’s done to Twitter’s notoriety.
The social media platform Twitter has gone up in market value significantly…
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February 5, 2020
Republicans and Democrats do not tend to agree on a much these days, but both sides of the aisle have come together to agree on at least one thing -- neither trusts Big Tech.
Pew Research Center reported Jan. 29 on a survey of “12,…
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February 5, 2020
Meme creators and free speech advocates feel they will be the first casualty of the latest war on “manipulated content” by Big Tech.
Twitter Safety announced via tweet on Jan 4 a new rule that forbids “manipulated media…
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February 3, 2020
“Comfortably Smug,” an anonymous but vastly popular Twitter account with 178.3k followers, was reportedly censored by Twitter on Monday for poking fun at a gaffe Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden made on the campaign trail.
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January 29, 2020
Just when you think today’s politics couldn’t get any more nuts, liberal billionaire 2020 Democratic candidate Michael Bloomberg decided to promote “Big Gay Ice Cream.”
The company being promoted, Big Gay Ice Cream…
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January 27, 2020
One of the internet’s foremost tech journalists has tried to call out one of Trump’s tweets as potentially “problematic” and also blasted the GOP on impeachment.
Recode co-founder and New York Times contributor…
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