Will continue to fact check Trump

Twitter will continue to fact check Donald Trump despite the President's censorship threats. 

We thought that was the point

Twitter's anti-porn filters have blocked Dominic Cummings' name from trending on the platform, despite Boris Johnson's chief adviser dominating British political news for almost a week.

For the crime of deleting his false and misleading posts

US President Donald “inject the bleach” Trump is about to sign an executive order to shut down social media sites which warn people about his medical advice and other fake news.

 
Companies start to realise that there is no need to come into the office

The coronavirus has finally proved to corporations that working from an office is pretty dumb.

Wants to purge the Liberal Jack Dorsey

A major Republican donor has bought a stake in Twitter and is seeking to oust Jack Dorsey and reform the social media platform.

Court told how the pair looked for Riyadh critics

Two former employees of Twitter were charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping into thousands of private accounts seeking personal information about critics of the Riyadh government.

China crises

Twitter is now blocking state-run media outlets from advertising on its platform.

Banning them would mean banning some US Republicans

The reason that Twitter cannot treat white-supremacist groups in the same way as Isis and ban them is that it would mean banning some Republican politicians.

Spreading Fake news

Hopes that Twitter might police its network for fake news were dashed when it a new report revealed that a small number of bots could overwhelm its fact checkers.

Take down will have to be rapid

The European Union’s chief executive on Wednesday proposed fining Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms if they fail to remove extremist content within one hour.