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Twitter bans two right-wing accounts as Musk promotes free speech
San Francisco: Amid Elon Musk’s free speech call, Twitter has re-suspended the accounts of two prominent conservative figures — MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and Dr Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko. The micro-blogging platform permanently…
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Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worse
Michigan: Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, acquired Twitter in a US 44 billion deal on April 25, 2022, 11 days after announcing his bid for the company. Twitter announced that the…
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Twitch to ban users who share ‘harmful misinformation’
New Delhi: Streaming platform Twitch has said it will ban harmful misinformation actors from using its service. Updating its spam, scams and malicious conduct policy, the platform said it would prohibit users…
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Meta, Google grilled over misinformation and cyberbullying, Twitter next
Sydney: An Australian government committee on Thursday grilled Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google about the spread of misinformation and cyberbullying across their platforms. Google’s director of government affairs and public policy, Lucinda…
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YouTube still being ‘weaponised’ by unscrupulous actors: Fact-checkers
New Delhi: More that 80 top fact-checking organisations, including from India, have written to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, saying that the platform is allowing itself to be “weaponised by unscrupulous actors” to…
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Twitter permanently suspends US Congresswoman’s account for Covid misinformation
Washington: Twitter has permanently suspended an account of US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican Representative from Georgia, for “repeated violations” of the micro-blogging site’s Covid-19 misinformation policies. “We permanently suspended the…
