April 24, 2018 Twitter tightens hate speech criteria to include disability after troll outrage After months of pressure from the mom of a severely disabled child, Twitter has revamped its hate speech reporting criteria to explicitly include tweets attacking people with disabilities.
April 23, 2018 Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its platform Citing alleged ties to the Russian government, Twitter has banned Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its website, though its standard account is still active. Kaspersky has denied the claims.
April 17, 2018 Twitter suffers outage as users around the world experience problems Twitter was offline for many users across the globe early on Tuesday.
April 10, 2018 Bots, not humans, tweet majority of links to popular websites, research says Bots account for two-thirds of tweets that link to popular websites, according to a Pew Research Center report, and have a tendency to share for adult content, sports, and news with particular vigor.
March 26, 2018 Americans less likely to trust Facebook with personal data, poll says Only 41 percent of Americans trust Facebook to obey existing U.S. privacy laws, while 50 percent of Germans fear that the social network is having a negative impact on democracy, according to new surveys.
March 21, 2018 Top 5 ways to annoy your social media friends while on vacation You can hide, but you’ll never totally escape your friends’ vacations.
March 21, 2018 Facebook alternatives: Are there social media platforms that don't collect and sell your data? Is there a social media platform that doesn’t want to profit from your data?
March 13, 2018 SXSW: Sadiq Khan shares death threats he's received, asks tech companies to fight hate, disinformation London Mayor Sadiq Khan shared death threats he’s received on Twitter during a South by Southwest keynote speech in which he called for technology companies and governments to safeguard citizens from hate speech, disinformation and the tech-driven negative impact of globalization.
March 12, 2018 Sadiq Khan: 'Dereliction of duty' by policy makers for failing to regulate big tech London Mayor Sadiq Khan is set to blast big tech companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google for “dividing” us, while calling out lawmakers for a “dereliction of duty” in not doing enough to regulate the industry and safeguard users.
March 9, 2018 Twitter refuses to comment on Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic tweets Twitter has refused to comment on anti-Semitic tweets from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, including one where he writes "the Jews have control over those agencies [FBI] of government."
