X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, will reverse a ban on political ads that was imposed in the pre-Musk era, in a move that could have far-reaching significance as the next U.S. presidential election year approaches.
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Tucker Carlson Releases First Show On Twitter Platform
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released the first episode of his revamped talk show on Twitter Tuesday evening, criticizing the establishment’s unwavering support for the Ukraine war effort and its silencing of alternative narratives.
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Elon Musk Marvelled At Level Of Government Access Into Twitter
Twitter CEO Elon Musk says the level of access government agencies had within the social media giant came as a massive shock to him.
“The degree to which various government agencies effectively had full access to everything that was going on at Twitter blew my mind,” he said. “I was not aware of that.”
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Biden Admin Using IRS To Target Conservatives
Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist who reported on collusion between government agencies and former executives of Twitter, was visited by an IRS official on the same day he testified before Congress about the weaponization of the federal government.
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FBI Paid Twitter To Censor
According to information revealed in the latest Twitter Files release, the FBI paid Twitter over $3.4 million in U.S. tax dollars for “administration costs” related to the staff’s time spent working with the feds.
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Twitter Used ‘Visibility Filtering’ To Punish Christians And Conservative Platforms
A new Twitter Files investigation has revealed the many tools that company executives employed to blacklist and shadowban conservative voices. The thread posted to Elon Musk’s platform reveals that the internal Twitter name for shadowbanning is “visibility filtering.”
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Twitter Releases Biden Admin Censorship Of Hunter Biden Laptop
Twitter CEO Elon Musk released information through journalist Matt Taibbi Friday afternoon showing that Twitter was working in conjunction with then-Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s team, removing tweets that team Biden wanted deleted.
Musk said that he decided to release the information because it was “necessary to restore public trust” in the platform after it censored the New York Post’s bombshell report about Hunter Biden’s laptop just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
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Twitter And Facebook Met With DHS On Censoring Americans
Executives from Facebook and Twitter, including the recently-fired head of trust & safety Vijaya Gadde, held regular meetings with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss censorship on a wide range of topics, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, coronavirus, and “racial justice,” according to leaked documents.
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Elon Musk Becomes Biggest Share Holder of Twitter
Elon Musk has taken a seat on the board of Twitter after becoming the biggest single shareholder. Musk bought a 9.2% share in the social media giant.
Parag Agrawal Twitter’s chief executive said: “Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.
“He’s both a passionate believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need on Twitter, and in the boardroom, to make us stronger in the long-term. Welcome Elon!”
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Twitter Facing Scrutiny for Allowing Taliban to Use their Platform
Many have called into question why big tech are failing to censor terror groups like the Taliban, whilst President Trump is still banned from Twitter, and right-leaning groups in the U.S. see their accounts censored.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman for the Taliban, has tweeted regular updates of their march to Kabul, with his tweets being referenced by numerous major news outlets.
However, Trump was permanently suspended from Twitter in January. Even CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday, “The former President of the United States is banned from Twitter but the Taliban is not.”
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Twitter to Partner with Big Media to Comabt “Misinformation”
Twitter is set to follow in Facebook’s footsteps, and outsource part of its fact checking to big media. Reuters and Associated Press are set to partner with Twitter in its war against “misinformation”.
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Twitter Hides the President’s Tweet Ahead of Polling Day
The night before America takes to the pools Twitter hides a tweet from the President.
In the tweet the President said that the Supreme Court decision to allow more time for postal ballots to arrive in Pennsylvania as “very dangerous.”
Facebook did not hide the post, but added a warning message: “Both voting by mail and voting in person have a long history of trustworthiness in the US. Voter fraud is extremely rare across voting methods.”
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Twitter Take No Action Over Khamenei’s “Eliminate Israel” Post
Twitter has come under fire for not taking any action over Iran’s Khamenei’s post calling for the elimination of Israel. However, Twitter has seen his Twitter account restricted over tweets about law and order in response to the violent protests sweeping America. Twitter has said Trump’s posts “incite violence”. The social media giant has been accused of double standards.
Twitter’s response has been to argue that Iran’s posts concerning the mass genocide of Israel is “foreign policy sabre-rattling”.
“We have an approach toward leaders that says that direct interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of the day, or foreign policy sabre-rattling on military-economic issues are generally not in violation of our rules,” Ylwa Pettersson, Twitter’s head policy for the Nordic countries and Israel, told the Knesset’s Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs, via video-conference.
If a world leader violates our rules but there is a clear interest in keeping that up on the service we may place it behind a notice that provides some more context about the violation and allows people to click through if they wish to see that type of content,” Pettersson replied.
“That’s what happened for the Trump tweet: that tweet was violating our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line of that tweet and the risk that it could possibly inspire harm and similar actions.”
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Twitter Investigating High Profile Security Breach
Twitter is investigating a security breach which has seen many high profile celebrities have their profiles hacked. Elon Musk, Joe Biden, and Bill Gates were amongst the individuals who’s accounts were breached.
Posts trying to trick people into sending hackers the cryptocurrency Bitcoin were tweeted by the official accounts of Apple, Uber, Kanye West, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and many others on Wednesday.
“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” Twitter said.
“They used this access to take control of many highly-visible… accounts,” the company said, adding that it was investigating “what other malicious activity they may have conducted or information they may have accessed.”
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