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How to check if your Twitter account has been hacked
Finding out that your Twitter account has been hacked can be stressful. Getting hacked could involv…
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Twitter is finally helping users safeguard against targeted attacks and trolls
Twitter's new "Safety Mode" marks an important step in Twitter's continual effort to counter misinf…
Francis Agustin
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A Twitter account which tracked Elon Musk's private jet has been suspended, despite Musk saying he wouldn't ban it for 'free speech' reasons
Jack Sweeney, who runs ElonJet, earlier said he had been shadowbanned since Musk took over Twitter …
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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We delete millions of spam accounts a day to control trolls, says Twitter
Twitter has rolled out various safety features that aims to safeguard its users against targeted at…
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Twitter's anti-abuse tool 'Safety Mode' now available in more countries
Called 'Safety Mode', the feature was first introduced to a small set of users in September last…
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Twitter says it's cracking down on conspiracy-theory group 'QAnon' and has already reportedly removed 7,000 accounts
"We've been clear that we will take strong enforcement action on behavior that has the potential to…
Sarah Al-Arshani,Tyler Sonnem…
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Twitter took down the accounts that track Elon Musk's and Mark Zuckerberg's jets
@ElonJet was suspended on Wednesday. Other jet-tracking accounts, including one tracking Mark Zucke…
Grace Kay,Taylor Rains,Sawdah…
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Elon Musk says Twitter's team was 'too intense' with suspending false accounts and is 'moving to chill mode'
Musk said Twitter is "purging" fake accounts on Thursday, but one user complained that accounts pos…
Sawdah Bhaimiya
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Twitter insiders say Jack Dorsey is involved with blocking accounts - and that it's a free speech minefield
Per the Fast Company source: "Jack was making those [kinds of] calls. They were very smart about it…
Shona Ghosh
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Twitter just dropped the hammer on Alex Jones and 'permanently' kicked him off its service
The social-networking company on Thursday announced that it has "permanently suspended" the right-w…
Troy Wolverton
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Twitter's trust and safety team sent Elon Musk a 7-page list of the risks with his paid verification system, and he launched it anyway: report
Twitter's team warned Musk a week before launch that impersonation issues would arise from selling …
Matthew Loh
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Twitter finally opens public appeals for suspended accounts — here’s how you can reclaim your lost profile
Twitter, a microblogging site, has recently said that users will soon be able to appeal account sus…
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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has deactivated his Twitter account
Rush Limbaugh appears to have left Twitter following the permanent suspension of President Trump's …
Libertina Brandt
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How to block or unblock someone on Twitter on a computer or mobile device
5. A pop-up menu will ask if you are sure you wish to block the user. Blocking a Twitter user bars …
Meira Gebel
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How to make your Twitter account private on desktop or mobile, and choose who can see your tweets
It should be noted that while making your Twitter account private will bar new visitors from seeing…
Jennifer Still,Jennifer Still
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Twitter took down a network of 130 fake accounts in Iran that tried to spread disinformation during the US presidential debate
Twitter said the FBI alerted it to the accounts, which tried to "disrupt the public conversation" b…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Iran's fake news push was much bigger than Facebook, and spread to Twitter and Google
In addition to the fake news sites, the report identified Twitter accounts posing as individuals li…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
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Elon Musk says Twitter will only let paying Blue subscribers vote in policy-related polls after users voted to oust him as CEO
Musk's response came after 57.5% Twitter users voted in favour of him stepping down as the CEO of t…
Huileng Tan
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Elon Musk's erosion of safety standards at X is helping Putin spread Russian propaganda, study finds
Research for the European Union found that X's elimination of labelling and de-amplifying policies …
Polly Thompson
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Twitter locks out 'hundreds' of content-moderation workers. Now only about 15 people have keys to the system ahead of potential midterm disinformation, report says
Twitter Head of Safety and Integrity Yoel Roth said the restrictions reduce opportunities for "insi…