Twitter said on Friday it will allow only paid subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) method to secure their accounts. After March 20, “only Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to use text messages as their two-factor authentication method,” the company said in a tweet. Two-factor authentication, meant to make accounts…
Twitter to Charge Users to Secure Accounts via Text Message
February 18, 2023
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3 Years’ Delay to Rein In TikTok
February 17, 2023
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Commentary The drumbeat regarding national security risks posed by TikTok, the popular social media app owned by Chinese big-tech firm ByteDance, has reached a fever pitch. After recently blocking it from federal government devices, Congress might now seek an outright national ban of the app. Given the failure of a prior attempted ban due to…
Florida Lawmakers Hope to Curb Social Media Harms Through Education
February 16, 2023
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Clearwater parent Dulce Gonzalez remembers the alarm she felt when she realized her daughter, a pre-teen at the time, seemed addicted to social media, a path she believed was leading the girl toward harm. She compared it to being hooked on crystal meth. “I had just gone through a divorce and had to put my…
GOP Lawmaker Introduces Bill Blocking Children Under 16 From Using Social Media
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a pair of legislations on Tuesday that would mandate social media companies to meet several requirements before they are allowed to offer accounts to Americans on their platforms. The first bill (pdf), titled “Making Age-Verification Technology Uniform, Robust, and Effective Act,” or the “MATURE Act,” would impose a minimum age…
Mother of Dead Teen Urges Senate to Protect Children From Social Media Harms
A mother told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 14 that her teenage son still took his life after being bullied on social media despite good parenting and discussing the dangers of online social networking with him. In June 2020, Kristin Bride from Oregon lost Carson, her 16-year-old son. She said Carson received his first…
Elon Musk Hopes to Have Twitter CEO Toward the End of Year
February 15, 2023
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that he anticipates finding a CEO for Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.” Speaking via a video call to the World Government Summit in Dubai, Musk said making sure the platform can function remained the most important thing for him. “I think I need to…
Cruz Say’s He’s Using ‘Twitter Files’ as ‘Road Map’ to Investigate Other Big Tech Platforms
February 14, 2023
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Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said he’s using the recent “Twitter Files” exposé series as a “road map” for investigating instances of political bias and manipulation in other big tech platforms. Cruz, who is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, announced he is starting an “oversight investigation” into major social…
Elon Musk Defends Restricting Military Use of Starlink in Ukraine, Cites Possible Escalation of Conflict
SpaceX founder Elon Musk has defended his company’s decision to limit Ukraine’s use of the company’s Starlink satellite internet service for military purposes, noting that the spacecraft manufacturer and communications company will not actively enable an escalation in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Musk was responding to former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who called on the Tesla CEO on Feb….
GoFundMe Takes Down Campaigns for Arizona Rancher Accused of Shooting Illegal Alien
February 10, 2023
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The GoFundMe fundraising website removed multiple campaigns that were set up to support and raise money for a 73-year-old Arizona rancher who was arrested in late January and charged with first-degree murder after allegedly shooting and killing an illegal alien who reportedly trespassed on his property. A spokesperson for the platform told NTD in an…
Musk Says Twitter Will Be Back Up on Thursday After Outage
February 9, 2023
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Twitter owner Elon Musk said the social media app should be back up later in the day after some users were unable to tweet on Wednesday, prematurely encountering a message that said “You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.” Musk wrote on Twitter early on Thursday that there were multiple “internal and external…
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