Global tech firms in Australia launch anti-disinformation code
The measures are said to target paid and political advertising as well as content shared by users.
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Zimbabwean journalist arrested over Tweets, now sings graft out
Hopewell Chin'ono is seen looking poker-faced in his study as he sings in a mix of pidgin English and vernacular Shona, one of Zimbabwe's official languages.
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Tech billionaire Elon Musk says he's off Twitter 'for a while'
Elon Musk overtook Amazon boss Jeff Bezos to become the world's wealthiest person last month, with a fortune estimated at $185 billion following a nine-fold surge in Tesla's share price over the past year.
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Twitter chief says Trump ban sets 'dangerous' precedent
Trump's access to social media platforms that he used as a megaphone during his presidency has been largely cut off since a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington last week.
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Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts linked to pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy
The social network began its purge Friday, shortly after it had permanently suspended Trump's account for language that could incite violence.
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Merkel finds Twitter halt of Trump account 'problematic'
German Chancellor Angela Merkel had said she was 'furious and saddened' by the storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters.
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Facebook bans Trump 'indefinitely' for inciting violence
Mark Zuckerberg said a one-day ban imposed on Donald Trump's accounts on Facebook and Instagram was extended because of Trump's "use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government".
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Twitter dropping Periscope mobile app for live streams
Twitter bought Periscope in 2015 before it launched and as the popularity of now defunct Meerkat signaled keen interest in people broadcasting video from smartphones.
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Japan 'Twitter killer' sentenced to death for nine murders
Takahiro Shiraishi, 30, admitted killing and butchering his young victims, all but one of whom were women.
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#COVID, #BlackLivesMatter top Twitter themes in 2020
In a summary of trends, Twitter said the hashtag #COVID19 and other variations were tweeted nearly 400 million times, while #StayHome was the third biggest hashtag of the year.
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Twitter bans content that 'dehumanises' based on race, ethnicity
The move announced by the messaging platform is the latest to refine its definition of abusive and harmful content which has led to a backlash against social networks.
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'Do we really need a national carrier?' Mboweni stands by tweets on SAA
Tito Mboweni took to Twitter last week, asking whether South Africa really needed a national carrier.
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Twitter to hand @POTUS account to Biden on inauguration day
The social media giant is "actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021," Twitter spokesperson Nick Pacilio told Politico in an email.
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An ex-president Trump fair game for social media rules
Efforts by Twitter and Facebook to balance letting political leaders speak to the people unfettered with enforcing rules about hateful and misleading posts have afforded Trump leeway not given to regular users.
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Twitter flags Trump tweets as battle spills to social media
The latest action came when a tweet from the president claimed ballot irregularities during the vote-counting process.
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Social media on high alert, Trump post flagged as US votes tallied
Aiming to avoid problems that occurred in the 2016 campaign, Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube have all implemented policies aimed at heading off the spread of false information designed to sway the outcome of this year's poll.
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Bad Romance: Lady Gaga in Twitter feud with Trump campaign
Democratic challenger Joe Biden announced that Gaga would appear with him Monday evening at a drive-in rally in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a state crucial to clinching victory on 3 November.
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US senators to grill big tech CEOs on legal immunity
Jack Dorsey of Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook - summoned alongside Sundar Pichai of Google parent Alphabet - said proposed reforms could lead to more harmful and abusive content online, and would limit rather than expand free expression.
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Twitter service restored following global platform outage
The outage marked a new setback for the network, which is fending off accusations of bias over its decision to block a news report critical of Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden.
