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‘Who The Hell Do You Think You Are?’: Rep. Boebert Grills Former Twitter Execs Over ‘Shadow-Banning’ Of Her Account
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado questioned former Twitter executives during a Wednesday congressional hearing, asking if her personal Twitter…
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Ex-Twitter Lawyer Says He Urged Caution In Handling Hunter Biden Laptop Story, But The Twitter Files Show Otherwise
During his testimony at the House Oversight Committee’s Wednesday hearing on Twitter, former Twitter Deputy General Counsel and ex-FBI lawyer…
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Still Broken: Twitter Suspends Republican Senator’s Account Over Hunting Photo
Twitter suspended Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines’ Twitter account because his profile photo showed him hunting with his wife, according…
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Group Targeting Musk’s Twitter For ‘Climate Misinformation’ Is Linked To Fusion GPS, Disinformation Campaign
A group behind a study finding an increase in “climate change misinformation” on Elon Musk’s Twitter also funded Fusion GPS,…
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FBI Assigned Personnel To ‘Look’ For ‘Violations’ Of Twitter’s Own Policies, Docs Reveal
FBI personnel reportedly received assignments to “look” for “violations” of Twitter policy, which one former executive at the social media…
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Twitter Users Vote For Elon Musk To Step Down As CEO
Twitter users voted for owner and CEO Elon Musk to step down from his leadership role by a 15-point margin…
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‘Slippery Slope’: Internal Docs Show Just One Twitter Employee Raising ‘Serious’ Free-Speech Concerns Over Trump Ban
In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, a junior staffer at Twitter was the only employee that appeared to express…
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Twitter Censors Allowed Liberals To Spread Election Conspiracy Theories During 2020, Docs Show
Authorities at Twitter chose not suppress particular references some liberal figures made to 2020 election conspiracy theories, despite marking some…
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Twitter’s Chief Censor Met Weekly With US Intelligence Officials While Trump Was In Office, Internal Comms Reveal
Twitter’s former Head of Trust and Safety, Yoel Roth, had weekly meetings with the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
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Twitter Execs Who Claimed There’s No ‘Shadow-Banning’ Have Been Caught In A ‘Lie,’ Reporter Tells Tucker Carlson
Twitter executives who claimed that there was no “shadow-banning” on the platform have been caught in a “lie,” a New…
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Twitter Had Secret ‘Blacklists’ That Suppressed Stanford Doctor, Top Conservatives, Docs Show
Twitter maintained secret “blacklists” that included several prominent conservative voices and a Stanford professor of health policy, limiting the spread of…
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‘Secret’ Twitter Committee ‘Acknowledged’ Libs Of TikTok Didn’t Violate ‘Hateful Conduct Policy’ After Multiple Suspensions, Memo Shows
A “secret” Twitter committee moderating high-profile accounts “acknowledged” that Libs of TikTok did not violate the site’s “Hateful Conduct policy,”…
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Elon Musk Says ‘Important’ Twitter Data Was ‘Hidden,’ May Have Been ‘Deleted’
Elon Musk said that “important” data from Twitter was “hidden” and “may have been deleted” in a Wednesday post on…
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Katie Hobbs’ Office Defends Asking Twitter To Take Down Posts Criticizing Them
The office of Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs of Arizona, who is also the governor-elect, has defended writing in…
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Here’s How The CDC Used A Backchannel With Twitter To Control The COVID-19 Narrative
Twitter set up a portal for government officials and “stakeholders” to submit posts that allegedly contained COVID-19 misinformation for Twitter…
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