On April 9th, 2026 with 181 comments
After nearly 20 years on the platform, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says it is leaving X. "This isn't a decision we made lightly, but it might be...
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On February 12th, 2025 with 49 comments
Eric Council Jr. pleaded guilty to identity theft and access device fraud after hijacking the SEC's X account to falsely announce Bitcoin ETF approval. He was...
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On September 21st, 2024 with 118 comments
X's struggles in Brazil got this update from the Guardian Wednesday:
In a statement tweeted from X's global government affairs account, the company said the...
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On September 18th, 2024 with 81 comments
Late last month, Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered X to suspend operations in Brazil after a months-long dispute with X owner Elon Musk. The...
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On August 17th, 2024 with 163 comments
X.com "says it's ending business operations in Brazil effective immediately," reports Engadget, "but the service will remain available to users in the...
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On July 6th, 2023 with 179 comments
Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based "Twitter killer" platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former...
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On June 26th, 2023 with 14 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: One of the cybercriminals behind 2020's major Twitter hack was sentenced to five years in U.S. federal prison...
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On May 18th, 2023 with 58 comments
Adi Robertson writes via The Verge: The Supreme Court has declined to consider reinterpreting foundational internet law Section 230, saying it wasn't...
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On March 6th, 2023 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The US can stop Twitter from releasing details about the government's demands for user information in...
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On December 3rd, 2022 with 377 comments
"Twitter CEO Elon Musk turned to journalist Matt Taibbi on Friday to reveal the decision-making behind the platform's suppression of a 2020 article from the...
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On September 17th, 2022 with 145 comments
Reuters reports:
Billionaire Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud by concealing serious flaws in the social media company's data security, which the...
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On August 22nd, 2022 with 51 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: Elon Musk's lawyers subpoenaed former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday as the billionaire continues to battle a...
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On August 17th, 2022 with 258 comments
A Saudi woman has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for retweeting activists through her Twitter account and sharing posts that spoke in favor of the right...
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On August 7th, 2022 with 17 comments
Friday the Twitter Privacy Center posted an announcement on their blog:
"We want to let you know about a vulnerability that allowed someone to enter a phone...
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On July 29th, 2022 with 7 comments
In Twitter's 20th transparency report, the company says it saw "record highs" in the number of account data requests during the July-December 2021 reporting...
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On July 20th, 2022 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: While working at Twitter from 2013 to 2015, Ahmad Abouammo was responsible for helping...
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On July 11th, 2022 with 359 comments
Elon Musk just tweeted a picture of himself laughing — along with a caption he'd apparently added himself.
"They said I couldn't buy Twitter. Then they...
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On June 6th, 2022 with 119 comments
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday he is investigating Twitter over its reporting of how many accounts on the platform are from bots and fake users,...
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On May 26th, 2022 with 32 comments
Twitter has agreed to pay a $150 million fine after federal law enforcement officials accused the social media company of illegally selling advertisements...
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On May 6th, 2022 with 81 comments
A judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by former President Donald Trump seeking to lift his ban from Twitter. But San Francisco federal district court Judge...
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On April 1st, 2022 with 108 comments
A Twitter user from the UK named Joseph Kelly has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service for posting a "grossly offensive" tweet about Captain Sir...
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On January 26th, 2022 with 7 comments
Twitter revealed on Tuesday that governments' requests for content to be removed from the platform hit a record high in the first six months of 2021. The Hill...
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On September 20th, 2021 with 6 comments
Twitter on Monday said it has agreed to pay $809.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accused the social network of violating securities laws by...
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On July 14th, 2021 with 17 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Twitter saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and...
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On July 14th, 2021 with 17 comments
Twitter saw a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the...
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On July 3rd, 2021 with 254 comments
"A federal judge on Wednesday blocked for the time being a new Florida law that sought to punish large social media businesses like Facebook and Twitter if...
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On June 20th, 2021 with 85 comments
Twitter has "deliberately" defied and failed to comply with India's new social media rules, according to the country's technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad....
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On June 8th, 2021 with 48 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Twitter disclosed on Monday that it blocked four accounts in India to comply with a new legal request from...
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On May 24th, 2021 with 402 comments
Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter moderate speech online, by imposing fines on social media...
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On April 5th, 2021 with 236 comments
Last fall, Justice Clarence Thomas argued that it was time to rein in Section 230 immunity. Now, Justice Thomas is laying out an argument for why companies...
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