Tag: Social Media

Twitter Restricts Russian State Media Accounts, Prisoner of War Content

Twitter Inc. will stop amplifying Russian government accounts, asking other government-affiliated media to remove posts featuring prisoners of war, citing international humanitarian law. Twitter would add warnings to state-backed accounts’ posts about prisoners when they have a “compelling public interest,” quoting Article 13 of the Geneva Convention III. Twitter would also mandate the removal of posts from any…


How to Change Someone’s Mind

I was recently chatting with a group of people when the dialogue drifted to the question of what could be done about the problems in our society. One woman observed that solutions can’t come through force, but rather by “changing how people think.” I believe she’s right. After all, political and cultural wars are won…


Conservatives Urge Elon Musk to Reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter Account

Conservatives are calling on Elon Musk to restore former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account after the Tesla CEO acquired a 9.2 percent passive stake in the company. Taking to Twitter, a number of individuals who support Trump asked for his account to be reinstated after it was permanently removed from the social networking site in January 2021, with…


Twitter Reveals Whether Trump Will Be Reinstated After Elon Musk Joins Board

Twitter said it has no plans to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account after billionaire Elon Musk purchased a significant number of Twitter shares and will be joining the firm’s board of directors. After Musk was tapped to join Twitter’s board, there was rampant speculation that Musk—who previously criticized the company for failing to adhere…


Twitter Confirms It’s Testing Edit Button, Says Idea Doesn’t ‘Come From a Poll’

Twitter is testing an edit button, the social media giant said on Tuesday. The company said in a tweet on Tuesday that it had the long sought after feature had been in the works for a considerable length of time. Twitter users currently delete and repost tweets if they wish to amend typos or errors….


‘If I Did 1/100 of What Hunter Biden Did, I’d Be in Jail for the Rest of My Life’: Eric Trump

There are no “equal scales of justice” in the United States, and the mainstream media has been covering up for the Biden family, according to Eric Trump, the second son of former President Donald Trump. “Based on their approval rating, [the mainstream media] is really damaged because they’ve got 7 percent approval rating in this…


Twitter’s Former CEO Jack Dorsey Says He’s ‘Partially to Blame’ for Centralization of Internet, Regrets It

Former Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey has said he is “partially to blame” for the centralization of the internet while revealing his regret for having done so. Dorsey took to Twitter on April 2 where he made the comment, writing that the “days of usenet, irc, the web…even email (w PGP)…were amazing. centralizing discovery…


Elon Musk to Join Twitter Board of Directors

Elon Musk, who recently became the single biggest shareholder of Twitter, will be joining the social media company’s board of directors, according to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and a regulatory filing. “I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that…


Musk Asks Twittersphere ‘Do You Want an Edit Button?’ After Buying His Way to Largest Shareholder

Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday created a Twitter poll asking users if they want an edit button on the platform, shortly after becoming the social media giant’s biggest individual shareholder. “Do you want an edit button?” he asked the Twittersphere. Musk on Monday took a 9.2 percent stake in the company, according to a…


Does Social Media Harm Kids? It Might Depend on Their Age

Your child’s risk of harm from social media is higher at certain ages and it’s different for girls and boys, researchers report. To figure out how social media use affected “life satisfaction” among 10- to 21-year-olds, the investigators analyzed long-term data on 17,400 young people in the United Kingdom. The new study found key periods when heavy…