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Jack Dorsey sacked from Twitter

1 December 2021

Jack Dorsey, founder and legendary CEO of Twitter, has been asked to step down. His tenure at the helm of the company will end within the end of the year and will not be renewed.
Jack Dorsey was one of the most powerful and wealthiest billionaires in Silicon Valley. He even went so far as to (…)

US voters want to legislate against Facebook and Twitter

10 May 2021

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 59% of U.S. voters believe that operators of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter relay biased information.
This viewpoint is less clear-cut among the younger and less educated users of these social (…)

Google, Facebook and Twitter black out information on Carvativir

28 January 2021

The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that researchers have elaborated a drug capable of treating Covid-19 with no side-effects, called Carvativir. He also announced that it would be manufacured in large quantities and be made available to the member (…)

Jack Dorsey censors governments too

21 January 2021

In 2019, Twitter censored accounts in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Bangladesh and Spain in order to block the dissemination of "state-backed news."
Also in 2019, Twitter began blocking institutional accounts, such as, in Venezuela for example, those of the Central Bank, the armed forces, the (…)

Consensus: London allies with Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube, Reuters

27 November 2020

A British association called Full Fact, has created a coalition between, on the one hand, all the relevant ministries of the United Kingdom and Canada and, on the other, information giants Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube and Reuters, in order to fight against disinformation on the internet in (…)

Republicans file complaint against Twitter and Facebook before Election Commission

17 October 2020

The Republican Party has lodged a complaint against Twitter and Facebook with the Federal Election Commission.
Indeed, these two companies implemented technical measures to prevent the dissemination of the New York Post articles unveiling the criminal offenses committed by Joe Biden and his (…)

Twitter removes official Venezuelan accounts

13 January 2020

Twitter suspended the accounts of some 40 Venezuelan institutions and high profile figures.
Over the past six months, the California-based company has closed down accounts in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Bangladesh and Spain. The company’s intended purpose is supposedly to curtail the (…)

Facebook and Twitter boast how they censure news

22 August 2018

Facebook and Twitter declared that they have now censured information published by groups linked to Iran and to Russia.
These two companies justify their position on the grounds that such information falls within the category of fake news. However, they are not giving out information on the (…)

France world champion of Twitter censorship

10 February 2014

In 2013, Twitter received 352 removal requests, of which 306 emanated from the French authorities, in other words 87%.