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USA

‘We’ve seen no evidence’: Social media networks blow up US officials’ claim of ‘Russian coronavirus disinformation campaign’

Posted on February 29, 2020February 29, 2020By Editor

Social media titans Twitter and Facebook poured cold water on the State Department’s latest conspiracy theory, insisting they’d seen no sign “Russian operatives” were spreading falsehoods about Covid-19 on their platforms. … Read More >‘We’ve seen no evidence’: Social media networks blow up US officials’ claim of ‘Russian coronavirus disinformation campaign’

USA

Twitter & Bloomberg campaign accused of censoring tweets with Epstein docs, fueling claims billionaire linked to dead pedophile

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020By Editor

Apparent efforts to quash discussion of the documented relationship between billionaire Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg and billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have only added more fuel to the fire on social media. … Read More >Twitter & Bloomberg campaign accused of censoring tweets with Epstein docs, fueling claims billionaire linked to dead pedophile

WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok in Trouble in India For Allegedly Spreading ‘Anti-National’ Propaganda

Posted on February 28, 2020February 28, 2020By Editor

With the widespread use of smartphones and internet, the Indian population is pretty active on social media. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, and TikTok are used extensively, in some cases to push fake or unverified information. … Read More >WhatsApp, Twitter, TikTok in Trouble in India For Allegedly Spreading ‘Anti-National’ Propaganda

World

Twitter down across eastern US and parts of Europe in latest major outage

Posted on February 19, 2020February 19, 2020By Editor

Hundreds of users have reported issues with the Twitter website Tuesday afternoon, while the mobile app appears to be largely unaffected. Twitter has not given any explanation for the mysterious outage at time of writing. … Read More >Twitter down across eastern US and parts of Europe in latest major outage

UK

WikiLeaks demands answers as Twitter account LOCKED ahead of Assange extradition hearing

Posted on February 18, 2020February 18, 2020By Editor

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson is seeking answers after the publisher’s official account was mysteriously locked, ahead of an extradition hearing for founder Julian Assange, who faces life in a US jail (or worse). … Read More >WikiLeaks demands answers as Twitter account LOCKED ahead of Assange extradition hearing

Russia

Sad face emoji? US social media giants Facebook & Twitter fined by Moscow court as server location impasse intensifies

Posted on February 13, 2020February 13, 2020By Editor

Facebook and Twitter were each fined four million rubles ($62,900) by a Moscow court on Thursday. It marks an escalation in a standoff between the American social media giants and Russian regulators. … Read More >Sad face emoji? US social media giants Facebook & Twitter fined by Moscow court as server location impasse intensifies

USA

‘Free speech only for Americans!’ US senators threaten Twitter with sanctions unless it censors Iranian leadership

Posted on February 8, 2020February 8, 2020By Editor

US senators have demanded that Twitter ban the accounts of two top Iranian officials, or face the wrath of US sanctions, in a thinly veiled threat to naïve free speech-believers who might fall out of favor with Washington next. … Read More >‘Free speech only for Americans!’ US senators threaten Twitter with sanctions unless it censors Iranian leadership

World

‘Even you are hackable’: Facebook gets its Twitter & Instagram accounts hacked, trolled with cybersecurity services offer

Posted on February 8, 2020February 8, 2020By Editor

In a highly unusual form of guerrilla marketing, hackers have breached the official Twitter and Instagram accounts of Facebook and its Messenger app, advertising their cyber security ‘services’ in a number of posts. … Read More >‘Even you are hackable’: Facebook gets its Twitter & Instagram accounts hacked, trolled with cybersecurity services offer

World

Twitter cites ‘Iran & Israel state actors’ after suspending researcher who exposed new user-data flaw

Posted on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020By Editor

Twitter, in a post so reassuring it’s alarming, says it stopped possible state-backed actors in Iran and Israel from exploiting its features. But the only clear ‘actor’ may be a lone researcher who reported the bug six weeks ago. … Read More >Twitter cites ‘Iran & Israel state actors’ after suspending researcher who exposed new user-data flaw

World

DO NOT update your Android app as it CRASHES once opened, Twitter warns users

Posted on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020By Editor

Twitter warned millions of users worldwide not to update their Android app, which crashes once opened. The annoying bug comes shortly after the service had to fix a security glitch allowing hackers to hijack the application. … Read More >DO NOT update your Android app as it CRASHES once opened, Twitter warns users