Tag: Twitter

Nigeria Lifts Suspension on Twitter After 7 Months

Nigeria is set to lift a ban on Twitter starting Jan. 13, after the social media giant agreed to certain conditions to resume operations. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general of the country’s National Information Technology Development Agency said that Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had given approval to lift the suspension. “Twitter has agreed to act with…


Twitter’s Censorship Resembles Communist China’s

Commentary On March 21, 2006, someone decided to send something called a tweet. A rather banal message, it included the following five words: “just setting up my twttr.” The person responsible for the tweet was Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter. In the almost 16 years since the Tweet was sent, the microblogging site has gone from…


Chart Wars: Snap, Twitter Stocks Near Entry Signals to Go Long for 2022—Here’s What to Watch For

Snap Inc. and Twitter Inc. were sliding significantly on Tuesday in sympathy with a number of technology-based stocks, losing more than 7 percent and 5 percent, respectively, intraday while the SPDR S&P 500 fell about 0.33 percent. Both stocks have, mostly, been trading in a heavy downtrend recently with Snap plummeting over 48 percent since its Sept….


Australian Govt Must Combat Foreign Interference On Social Media: Inquiry

The Australian government has been urged to act quickly and create a body tasked with tackling foreign interference promulgated on social media ahead of the nation’s 2022 federal election. Large-scale coordinated disinformation campaigns led by the Russian government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have pervaded platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tiktok, and YouTube, many…


Twitter Suspends Media Site’s Account for Posting Video of House Rep. Criticizing Big Pharma

Media company Grabien News was suspended by Twitter over the weekend for posting a video of House representatives criticizing pharmaceutical corporations, its founder said. Grabien founder Tom Elliott wrote on Twitter Friday that Grabien was suspended for paraphrasing Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.). “Big Pharma Won’t Consider Therapeutics Like HCQ or Ivermectin Because of Economic Interests,”…


Twitter Suspends Media Site’s Account for Posting Video of Congressman Criticizing Big Pharma

Media company Grabien News has been suspended by Twitter for posting a video of a U.S. congressman criticizing pharmaceutical corporations, its founder said. Grabien founder Tom Elliott wrote on Twitter on Dec. 31 that Grabien was suspended for citing comments by Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) about COVID-19 treatments. “Big Pharma Won’t Consider Therapeutics Like HCQ…


Twitter Admits ‘Error’ in Suspending Just the News Founder’s Account Over COVID Facts

Twitter late Thursday acknowledged that Just the News founder and Editor-in-Chief John Solomon’s account was “suspended in error” this week over a post about a COVID-19 vaccine. The response follows an appeal earlier in the day by Solomon after his account was suspended Tuesday for his tweet linking to the article “Pfizer to continue distributing…


mRNA Vaccine Contributor Robert Malone Joins Gettr

After Twitter suspended his account, Dr. Robert Malone, a contributor to mRNA vaccine technology, joined upstart social media website Gettr. Throughout the pandemic, Malone has been a critic of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination rules as well as mitigation policies. On Twitter, he amassed more than 500,000 followers before his account was suspended. Earlier this week, Malone…


Twitter Suspends Key mRNA Vaccine Contributor Dr. Robert Malone

Dr. Robert Malone, a key contributor to mRNA vaccine technology and outspoken critic of COVID-19 mandates and rules, was suspended by Twitter. Writing on his Substack page, Malone, who had massed more than 500,000 followers, confirmed he was “permanently suspended from Twitter” and asserted that “we all knew it would happen eventually.” “Over a half million…


Russia Regulators Fine Twitter 10 Million Roubles for Allegedly Failing to Delete Banned Content

A Moscow court on Thursday said it had fined Twitter 3 million roubles ($136,000) for allegedly failing to delete content banned by the Russian government, the latest in a string of penalties issued against U.S. tech companies this year. The press service of the Tagansky District Court confirmed the penalty to the Russian state-owned news agency…