
Elon Musk Joins Twitter Board After Amassing Large Stake In Company
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is now the social media platform's largest shareholder after purchasing 73.5 million shares worth about $3 billion.
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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO is now the social media platform's largest shareholder after purchasing 73.5 million shares worth about $3 billion.
| AP
The site said Rep. Greene committed "multiple violations" of its new civic integrity policy, put in place after the Capitol insurrection.
The company says it will rely on a combination of technology and human review to enforce the policy.
The nearly five-hour hearing touched on the platforms' handling of the Hunter Biden New York Post story, labels on Pres. Trump's posts and more.
President Trump will lose protections afforded world leaders by Twitter that give them leeway to post potentially false or harmful statements.
Twitter says it is ending its practice of labeling misleading or disputed tweets about the election, including those sent by President Trump.
Notifications will be posted at the top of your timeline, pointing you to trusted information.
Social media's attempt to stop false information around a New York Post story on Joe Biden and his son has left them open to censorship allegations.
A Clemson University researcher says some of the accounts linked back to Eastern Europe or Turkey and found a few traces of the Russian alphabet.
Measures include warning labels to hide misleading tweets from certain accounts.
Trump’s post performed well on Twitter, but on Facebook, the equivalent post was only Trump’s 25th most interacted-with of the past year.
The company said his claims about COVID-19 could potentially dissuade people from voting.
The Trump Administration asked the FCC to intervene after Twitter put warning labels on two of his tweets for being misleading.
Twitter said Rep. Matt Gaetz's tweet "Can we hunt them down?" about Antifa "glorifies violence."
Experts say China's use of Facebook and Twitter to spread protest messages is intentional, since those platforms are banned for most Chinese citizens.
Trump has a long history of breaking Twitter's rules on threatening or glorifying violence, but this is the first time he's been reprimanded for it.
The social media company flagged the president's unsubstantiated claims on fraud with mail-in voting.
The president tweeted that mail-in voting is "substantially fraudulent" and suggested the 2020 election will be rigged.
Twitter will base warnings and even removal of tweets on three categories: Misleading information, disputed claims and unverified claims.
A former marathoner details his symptoms while fighting COVID-19.
This was the first tag of its kind on Twitter, but it's not clear how effective it was; the video had at least 5 million views before being tagged.
A Twitter spokesperson told NBC News the company is considering various ways "to address misinformation and provide more context for tweets."
The accounts belong to journalists, political leaders and military branches.
The fake accounts were linked to Saudi Arabia, Georgia and Vietnam and sought to spread misinformation.
Twitter's decision to ban political ads comes as other platforms try to figure out how they should handle ads that spread misleading information.
Veterans and their likeness are often implicated in social media disinformation campaigns. Experts say without action, this problem could grow bigger.
Getting out of political ads doesn't lose Twitter much revenue, and it doesn't have to deal with the public scrutiny over lies or fact-checking.
Twitter's decision to ban political ads comes as social media platforms come under inquiry about how they handle ads that spread misleading info.
Twitter says some users' email addresses and phone numbers "may have inadvertently been used" for targeted advertising.
The social media company took a string of tweets down in less than an hour.