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Amazon, Tesla, Netflix, Facebook, Google and Twitter stocks dropped this week

Major tech stocks are down this week. Amazon, Tesla, Netflix Facebook, Google and Twitter have all taken a dive for various reasons. Tesla plummeted 15 percent after the National Transportation Safety Board announced it was investigating a fatal crash that happened on March 23 in California. It is not … Read …

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Tommy Robinson permanently banned by Twitter

The former leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Twitter. It is understood that the rightwing extremist fell foul of Twitter's rules governing “hateful conduct”. Twitter declined to discuss what, specifically, had precipitated the ban and Robinson, whose … Read More

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Hey Twitter, this is what women want you to know about online abuse

OPINION: The internet can be a scary place for women. In a 2017 poll of 500 New Zealand women, around a third of those surveyed said they had experienced online abuse. Of those, two thirds said they were left feeling "powerless" and around half said they now used social media …

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JPMORGAN: Twitter concerns are ‘overdone’

Investor concerns about a regulatory impact on Twitter are "overdone," said JPMorgan analyst Doug Anmuth. Twitter relies more on non-sensitive data than it does on sensitive data, so it's not terribly exposed to regulatory risk, he said. Anmuth gave a $36 price target on Twitter, which has been hit hard …

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British far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been banned from Twitter

Twitter has banned Tommy Robinson, a British far-right anti-Muslim activist. Visitors to the Twitter profile of Robinson, who cofounded far-right protest group the English Defence League (EDL), are now greeted with a generic message saying "this account has been suspended." Twitter did not … Read More

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Tommy Robinson suspended from Twitter for ‘hateful conduct’

Tommy Robinson suspended from Twitter for 'hateful conduct'. It is believed the former leader of the far-right English Defence League has violated Twitter's policies on "hateful conduct". 17:24, UK, Wednesday 28 March 2018. Tommy Robinson. Image: Tommy Robinson's Twitter account has been … Read More

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Saudi women strive to bring male guardians to a Twitter end

There has been an “explosion of advocacy” on Twitter over the past two years, say the authors of a report – the first of its kind produced by Saudi women – documenting how women in the kingdom have been fighting for their rights since 1990. The move to social media …

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Donald Glover posts script for scrapped animated Deadpool series on Twitter, jokes about who bit …

However, Glover has now denied those claims, posted a brief message on Twitter: “For the record: I wasn't too busy to work on Deadpool.” Rather than just post a quick Tweet, though, Glover then began posting pages from an episode of Deadpool: The Animated Series titled “Finale”, written by himself … …

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Former EDL leader Tommy Robinson’s account suspended by Twitter AGAIN – but this time it might …

… Twitter suspended Robinson for seven days and in November he lost his blue tick following what some argued was a crackdown on legitimising right-wing views. In response to his de-verification, Mr Robinson wrote : "They remove my blue tick meanwhile Islamic terrorist organisations still have theirs. Read More

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Cryptocurrency clampdown! Twitter bans ICO ads to combat scammers

As widely-trailed last week, Twitter is to ban advertisers from pushing Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) or selling tokens on its platform. Implemented over the next 30 days, the reasons should be self-explanatory. To quote a statement circulated among the media but not yet reflected on the company's official … Read More