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President Donald Trump and Twitter are tangling over truth and consequences

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday he wasn’t going to take down President Donald Trump’s posts about shooting alleged looters in Minneapolis nor put a warning on them as Twitter, but he acknowledged he had been “struggling all day” with how to respond. Zuckerberg, in a late afternoon post on his Facebook wall, largely stood by his long-held view that social...

Twitter’s decision to stand up to President Donald Trump by attaching warnings to some of his tweets has been years in the making

Twitter on Friday announced that a tweet by President Donald Trump glorified violence and violated the company’s policies, NBC News reports. The company did not remove the tweet, however.

President Donald Trump escalated his war on social media companies Thursday, signing an executive order challenging the liability protections that have served as a bedrock for unfettered speech on the internet. Still, the move appears to be more about politics than substance, as the president aims to rally supporters after he lashed out at Twitter for applying fact checks to…

President Trump is threatening social media companies with the prospect of new regulation after “fact checks” were added to two of his tweets by Twitter. Trump accused Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 presidential election” and “completely stifling free speech,” stating “as president, I will not allow it to happen.”

President Donald Trump doubled down on his slew of Memorial Day tweets during a press conference on Tuesday, defending his promotion of a conspiracy theory regarding the death of MSNBC staffer. The president falsely accused MSNBC host Joe Scarborough of being responsible for the 2001 death of staffer Lori Klausutis, despite her widower’s public requests for Trump to discontinue the...

American hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio took to Twitter to explain why he decided to withdraw from the public-private partnership to help disadvantaged high school kids in Connecticut. The decision, Dalio said, came after he and his wife committed $100 million and asked the state to also commit $100 million to helping students. Dalio said a board was set up…

The rise of artificial intelligence will make even software engineers less sought after. That’s because artificial intelligence will soon write its own software, according to Jack Dorsey, the tech billionaire boss of Twitter and Square. And that’s going to put some beginning-level software engineers in a tough spot. “We talk a lot about the self-driving trucks in and whatnot” when discussing how automation...

A private funeral for Joe Jackson was held at Forest Lawn in Glendale, California, Monday, E! News reported. Family members, including Janet Jackson, were spotted at the funeral.

Melissa Etheridge says her 21-year-old son Beckett Cypher has died

Twitter will allow employees to work from home for as long as they want, according to NBC News. Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey told his employees Tuesday that many of them will be allowed to work from home in perpetuity, even after the coronavirus pandemic ends, according to a Twitter spokesperson. In an email, first obtained by BuzzFeed News, Dorsey…

Twitter announced Monday it will warn users with a label when a tweet contains disputed or misleading information about the coronavirus

Facebook, Google and other platforms are taking unprecedented steps to protect public health as potentially dangerous coronavirus misinformation spreads around the world

Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter and Square, said Tuesday that he is devoting $1 billion of his stake in the mobile payments company, or 28 percent of his net worth, to help fund coronavirus relief efforts.

Ezra Miller is in hot Internet water.

NBC News correspondent Kate Snow took to Twitter on Sunday night to explain her absence from the anchor chair on “Nightly News”: her husband, Chris Bro, is sick with coronavirus symptoms.

After finishing her workout last Wednesday, Rebecca Mehra stopped by her neighborhood grocery store in Bend, Oregon, to pick up a few things.

President Donald Trump drew backlash Monday night after posting a tweet using the phrase “Chinese Virus,” NBC News reports.

Twitter is starting to test tweets that disappear after 24 hours, although initially only in Brazil.