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Review planned of law that protects social media firms from responsibility for users’ content Donald Trump has threatened to take action against social media companies after Twitter tagged two of his tweets with a fact-check warning. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter, […] More
Twitter added warning on tweets that spread falsehoods President vows to ‘strongly regulate … or close them down’ As his election-year polling numbers have deteriorated, however, Trump has grown increasingly wild in his threats against media organizations and the voting system. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Donald Trump has threatened to “strongly regulate” or close down social media […] More
Donald Trump President rails against decision after his tweets on mail-in voting are marked with message: ‘Get the facts’ Some of Donald Trump’s tweets now feature a link highlighting false claims. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Twitter for the first time took action against a series of tweets by Donald Trump, labeling them with a warning sign […] More
Twitter says it won’t delete tweets in which the president spreads lie that Joe Scarborough was involved in Lori Klausutis’s death MSNBC’s Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough. Photograph: Patrick Lewis/StarPix for The Paley Center for Media/REX/Shutterstock The husband of a woman whose 2001 death Donald Trump has repeatedly used for a political smear has demanded […] More
Edited footage, first tweeted by president’s social media director, makes it look like Biden inadvertently backed Trump’s re-election The first video to be labelled by Twitter as “manipulated media” was tweeted by Donald Trump’s social media director and retweeted by the president himself. Dan Scavino tweeted the footage on Saturday, mistakenly saying it came from […] More
The Texas senator tried to pick a fight after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out Mike Pence’s coronavirus credentials If you were in search of a scientifically minded, steadying presence to guide the country through the potential fallout of the coronavirus, you could not do much worse than Vice-President Mike Pence. This being the Donald Trump administration, […] More
From doctored videos to fake quotes, the presidential candidate is muddying the water online – and it’s working If a dumpster is already on fire, is there any harm in throwing some more trash into it? Mike Bloomberg’s campaign has spent the last month unapologetically performing the digital equivalent of dumping buckets of fresh garbage […] More
Site reports actions against about 70 accounts Accounts violated coordination rules Bloomberg: ‘snazzy ads’ mask weak climate plan Twitter has started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting the Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg. Related: Barack Obama isn’t running in 2020 – so why is he in all the campaign ads? Continue reading… More
