by Jim Heath | Jul 9, 2020 | Headlines, Mueller Investigation, Trump
Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning to complain that he was being treated unfairly and subject to “political prosecution” after the Supreme Court ruled that New York state prosecutors could subpoena his financial records while blocking Democrats from accessing...
by Jim Heath | Jun 23, 2020 | 2020, Business, Headlines, Social Media
Twitter will make Election Day a paid holiday for its U.S. employees, the company announced today. The company added that any employees who do not have time outside of working hours to vote in their country will be compensated for the time it takes to vote. All...
by Jim Heath | Jun 2, 2020 | Antifa, Headlines, Race
Twitter has deactivated an account that it says claimed to belong to a national ‘Antifa’ organization but was really created by the white supremacist group Identity Evropa. The account, which included the Antifa logo as well as a Twitter handle ‘Antifa America’ and...
by Jim Heath | May 28, 2020 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
President Trump signed an executive order today aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies, two days after he tore into Twitter for fact-checking two of his tweets. “We’re here today to defend free speech from one of...
by Jim Heath | May 26, 2020 | Headlines, Social Media, Trump
Twitter today slapped a fact-check label on President Trump’s tweets for the first time, a response to long-standing criticism that the company is too hands-off when it comes to policing misinformation and falsehoods from world leaders. The move, which escalates...
