Facebook, Twitter grilled by Senate committee; Dorsey says company may label bots
via C-SPAN Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday appeared before a Senate committee to face questions...
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Twitter tightens access to API platform & restricts number of daily actions an app can perform
Twitter is following through on its commitment to improve the health of its platform. Tuesday, the company announced that all new...
Twitter’s new Ad Transparency Center shows all ads shown in past 7 days
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com In anticipation of the upcoming midterm elections, Twitter is rolling out phase two of its efforts to bring...
Twitter now removing 214% more spammy accounts YoY as it ramps up efforts against bad actors
Earlier this year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, along with three other executives who head up the company’s product and security teams,...
Twitter introduces new US election candidate labels & launches its Political Campaigning Policy
Twitter is arming itself against abuse from outside forces in advance of this year’s midterm elections. The site is introducing new...
Senate Judiciary Committee asks CEOs of Facebook, Google, Twitter to testify on privacy
And now the hearings. Earlier today, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that it’s seeking testimony from Facebook, Google and...
Twitter chief information security officer reportedly exiting
Twitter’s chief information security officer is reportedly leaving the company. According to The Verge, sources say Twitter Chief...
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey says the platform’s intention is to open verification to everyone
rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com During a 45-minute livestream yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed a number of safety-abuse and...
Social networks to face huge fines in Germany for not removing ‘illegal content’ in 24 h
As of yesterday, Germany began to enforce its anti-hate speech and illegal content law (“NetzDG”), originally passed in mid-2017. It...
Twitter latest to be slammed for deleting Russian fake account data
Facebook, Google and Twitter have all found themselves unwitting players in Russia’s effort to disrupt and influence the 2016 election....
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Confirms Company Will Lay Off 336 Employees
Eight days after being named Twitter’s permanent CEO, Jack Dorsey confirmed a report from Re/code last week that the company would be...
Twitter Triples The Size Of The Abuse Support Team & Adds Doxing Reports
Earlier this month, an internal email leaked where Dick Costolo, Twitter’s CEO, stated “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls.” It...
Russia Moves To Censor Google, Facebook, Twitter
Under Vladimir Putin Russia has taken many steps backward toward its repressive, Cold War past. It’s apparently taking another by...
Photo-Sharing Service Twitpic To Close Rather Than Fight Twitter Over Trademark
Long before Twitter allowed you to share pictures natively through its own Twitter pictures service, there was Twitpic. It was even one...
Rebel With A Twitter Cause: CMG Sues Twitter For Ownership Of @JamesDean Account
CMG, a firm that manages the commercial real estate of deceased celebrities, is suing the social media site along with five John Does,...
Twitter’s Latest Transparency Report Details Increases In DMCA, Removal & Information Req
latest transparency report shows that the company is seeing double-digit increases in data-related requests so far this year from...
Twitter Loses French Appeal To Avoid Disclosing Hate-Speaker Names
Anti-Semitism is currently on the rise throughout Europe. The Union of Jewish French Students (UEJF) and other human-rights groups sought...
UK Court Finds Tweet Libelous Because Of Implied Meaning
In what appears to be the first case of its kind, a UK court has found that the implications of a tweet (against the backdrop of its...
Twitter Reaches Spam Lawsuit Settlement With Tweet Adder
five companies that Twitter sued last year, accusing them of making tools that spread spam across its service. As AllThingsD first...
Twitter Sued By User Who Wants @SunValley Back, Claims Twitter Acted Like Bully
@sunvalley since 2010, Barshack received an email from Twitter last year notifying him that a report had been filed declaring he was...
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