Zach Bryan has returned to Twitter after nearly two weeks of his account being deactivated. The songwriter credits the blackout to his upcoming tour. “sorry guys had to avoid twitter while the tour went on sale,” he wrote. “I love you guys all so much and I’m so insanely happy …
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Ain’t nobody reading all that. On Tuesday, some users on Twitter are getting a first look at Twitter’s newest update: Tweets with more than 25,000 characters. One lengthy viral tweet came from Hong Kong blogger and software developer Jane Manchun Wong, who shared a post with a lot of periods …
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A San Francisco jury deliberated for less than two hours before finding Tesla billionaire Elon Musk not liable in a class action securities fraud lawsuit bought by investors of the car company, CNBC reported. The trial stemmed from a 2018 tweet in which Musk claimed he had “funding secured” to …
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Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger announced on Tuesday the launch of their new venture, Artifact. The app was touted as a tailored news feed powered by artificial intelligence, according to Platformer. The co-founders, who left Facebook in 2018 amid tensions with their parent company, shared the roll out …
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Unless you were following him already, today you are unable to view the tweets from Twitter owner and CEO Elon Musk. That’s because, like a micro-celebrity going through a public breakup or a main character getting ratioed for a bad take, he has set his account on “private.” Aside from …
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It’s not all that common to come across a show on Netflix that’s so unbelievably crass it makes you question whether cancel culture even exists. Paradise PD, which often occupied the streamer’s Top 10 TV Shows list in 23 countries, is one of those titles. First debuting on the platform …
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Elon Musk late last year reinstated Andrew Anglin’s Twitter account. Anglin, a proud neo-Nazi who had been permanently suspended in 2013, is one of several previously banned extremists Musk has reinstated since taking control of the platform in October. Some of them, like Jan. 6 rally organizer Ali Alexander and …
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Twitter and YouTube took down a BBC documentary critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in a genocidal 2002 massacre in the Indian state of Gujarat, The Intercept reports. The censorship was in coordination with the government of India, as officials called for the social media platforms to take …
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Anika Collier Navaroli was at her “wits’ end.” Twitter’s safety policy team had gathered via video conference to walk through what they expected to see the next day, Jan. 6, 2021, and began to argue. Safety policy staff had clashed repeatedly with Twitter’s management over whether to take a tougher …
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The Twitter account of QAnon conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins has been restored to the platform after being banned in 2020 as part of an effort to curb the reach of the conspiracy on the website. Watkins’ return is the latest in a series of account reinstatements for extremists under the …
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