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Stop Hate for Profit grew rapidly in June, resulting in hundreds of firms withdrawing millions of dollars of ad spend from Facebook

Ripples of Facebook ad boycott likely reach Ireland

Business / 16 hrs

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said that 'time and facts will tell that this law will not undermine human rights and freedoms'

Tech firms suspend processing Hong Kong govt requests

Business / 07 Jul

Donald Trump's war of words with Twitter looks to be escalating

Twitter hides 'abusive' Trump tweet aimed at protesters

Twitter said it would be testing the feature on its Android application

Twitter tests limit on users sharing unread articles

Elon Musk has repeatedly used Twitter to make controversial statements

Elon Musk calls for Amazon to be broken up

Business / 05 Jun

Donald Trump has vowed to send National Guard troops to Minneapolis

Twitter flags Trump tweet for 'glorifying violence'

The #murraytweetindex ranks over 700 journalists across six parameters, measuring popularity, quality of engagement and level of activity

Top journalists' Twitter followers up 6% to 3.3 million

Business / 29 May

The move represents the latest attempt by Donald Trump to use the tools of the Presidency to force private companies to change policies that he believes are not favourable to him

Trump signs executive order targeting social media

Donald Trump has threatened to shut down some social media platforms

Trump expected to sign social media executive order

Donald Trump / 28 May

Donald Trump has claimed that postal voting would lead to election fraud

Twitter labels two Trump tweets 'unsubstantiated'

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Twitter takes action on misleading Covid-19 posts

Coronavirus / 11 May

Twitter had todau announced greater first-quarter revenue and a smaller loss than financial analysts had expected

Twitter tops first quarter sales estimates

Business / 30 Apr

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he is donating €1 billion help the fight against Covid-19

Dorsey pledges $1 billion of Square stake for relief

Business / 08 Apr

Twitter has ordered all its staff around the world to work from home

Twitter staff ordered to work from home over virus fear

Business / 12 Mar

The video shortened a statement by Joe Biden, changing its meaning

Twitter: Biden video retweeted by Trump 'manipulated'

News Lens / 09 Mar

Twitter would match the disappearing posts first made popular by Snapchat and later adopted by Facebook

Twitter testing tweets that vanish after 24 hours

News Lens / 04 Mar

Staff and contractors working in the company's offices in the city centre worked from home today

Majority of Google staff to work from home again

Coronavirus / 03 Mar

Twitter could give users 'points' for flagging misleading content

Twitter testing new community moderation features

Business / 21 Feb

Twitter has reached $1 billion in quarterly revenue for the first time

Twitter reports first $1 billion quarterly revenue

Business / 06 Feb

The changes are taking place ahead of the US Presidential election

Twitter to label synthetic and manipulated posts

Business / 05 Feb

WhatsApp user numbers rise 5% as Twitter growth stalls

Business / 15 Jan

As of now, users have few options to limit replies, such as making their account private or by directly blocking people

Twitter to test limiting replies to tackle online abuse

witter chief executive Jack Dorsey has promised since 2018 to increase the "health" of public conversation

Twitter to experiment with limiting replies

Business / 09 Jan

The new policy changes will take effect ahead of the UK general election and globally in early January

Google tightens political ads policy to thwart abuse

World / 21 Nov 19

The Conservative Campaign Headquarters press office account was renamed during the debate

Tories criticised over Twitter 'factcheckUK' rebranding

UK Election 2019 / 20 Nov 19

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