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Similar teams have been put in place by Twitter ahead of recent elections in Germany, Sweden, Mexico, the US, and Brazil

Twitter expanding policy on control of political ads

Europe / 19 Feb

Twitter's overall revenue rose to $909m in the fourth quarter, beating Wall Street's average estimate of $868.2m

Twitter revenue beats expectations as video ad sales up

Business / 07 Feb

Facebook and Twitter had fewer Irish users during the second half of 2018

Facebook loses in latest social networking survey

Business / 30 Jan

Facebook introduced new tools on Monday to counter online political meddling

EU urges tech giants to intensify fake news fight

technology / 29 Jan

Twitter notified the DPC of breaches under the new GDPR legislation

DPC launch statutory inquiry into Twitter GDPR breach

Science and Technology / 25 Jan

Yusaka Maezawa holds a ticket for Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket trip around the moon

Cash giveaway sees billionaire claim most ever retweets

News Lens / 07 Jan

Donald Trump also attacked retired general Stanley McChrystal

Trump tells critics to 'CALM DOWN' in New Year message

Donald Trump / 01 Jan

The international stories that had people talking on Twitter included the World Cup and Britain's royal wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

What people were talking about on Twitter in 2018

Business / 05 Dec 18

The referendum took place in May of this year

Referendum, Brexit and election top topics on Twitter

News Lens / 05 Dec 18

Karen White, Director of Public Policy for Twitter in Europe was addressing the Oireachtas Communications Committee today

Twitter supports new online political advertising bill

Politics / 27 Nov 18

Dominic Raab made his comments at a tech industry meeting

Raab admits not understanding importance of EU trade

Brexit / 08 Nov 18

Twitter said its quarterly advertising revenue jumped 29% from a year earlier to $650m

Twitter ad sales surge in third quarter, shares jump

Business / 25 Oct 18

Twitter announced it had discovered activity related to the accounts early this year, but kept their details private

Twitter releases data from 'state-backed' operations

Science and Technology / 17 Oct 18

Internet platforms will also be required to take proactive measures, such as developing new tools to weed out abuse

EU pushes internet firms to remove extremist content

technology / 12 Sep 18

Alex Jones had almost 900,000 followers on Twitter before he was banned

Twitter bans Alex Jones for 'behaviour' violations

News / 06 Sep 18

Facebook, Twitter and other technology firms have been on the defensive for many months over political influence activity on their sites as well as concerns over user privacy

Congress grills tech firms over foreign influence

Business / 05 Sep 18

Jack Dorsey said Twitter failed to deal with campaigns of manipulation

Dorsey says Twitter was 'unprepared' for fake news

Social Media / 05 Sep 18

Twitter has been under pressure from regulators in several countries to weed out hate speech, abusive content and misinformation

Twitter to focus on fixing platform over user growth

Business / 27 Jul 18

Twitter said most users will see a follower count drop of four followers or fewer

Twitter set to remove millions of accounts

Twitter / 13 Jul 18

Donald Trump has more than doubled his followers since taking office

Trump tops world leaders on Twitter

News Lens / 10 Jul 18

Twitter recently began taking more steps to clean up spam and automated activity, and "close the loopholes they'd exploited"

Twitter to combat bot accounts with added verification

News / 27 Jun 18

The judge ruled that Donald Trump had violated the free speech rights of Twitter users

Trump violated constitution by blocking Twitter users

News / 23 May 18

Twitter shares had risen 26.9% so far this year

Twitter beats estimates as growth moves overseas

Business / 25 Apr 18

Wetherspoon closes Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts for its head office and almost 900 pubs in Britain and Ireland.

JD Wetherspoon drops social media in protest

Business / 16 Apr 18

The reach of Irish journalists on Twitter is growing with the top 100 journalists listed having a combined 3 million followers

Top 100 Irish journalists on Twitter have 3m followers

Business / 11 Apr 18

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