Unlike J.K. Rowling or Donald Trump, Reza Aslan knows what it’s like to be “canceled.” On the evening of June 3, 2017, a van barreled into a crowd of pedestrians on London Bridge before its passengers emerged, stabbing onlookers in nearby Borough Market. Before their blood was even dry, or […]
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An analytics firm parsing Twitter data in real time for law enforcement and media has been caught funneling detailed info on anti-police-brutality marches to the very agencies users are protesting, despite promises not to. Dataminr, a CIA-funded artificial intelligence startup that mines Twitter’s real-time content stream for behavioral patterns and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/07/09/1079842070_0:0:1200:675_1200x675_80_0_0_3a5f0310f5ec99a0e3d59d62670e3a3e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/cartoons/202007091079842103-court-conniption/ US President Donald Trump had yet another meltdown on Twitter on Thursday over the US Supreme Court ruling against him in his fight to keep his financial records from public view. SCOTUS has ruled that Trump will have to keep fighting in order […]
The tech giants are colluding in their attacks on conservative speech. Last Tuesday YouTube banned popular conservative philosopher Stefan Molyneux after 14 years. Stefan ran the largest philosophy channel on YouTube with nearly a million subscribers, thousands of videos, hundreds of millions of views and billions of comments. Stefan wrote […]
If pregnancy is God’s will, so is erectile dysfunction, argued critics of the new US Supreme Court ruling that allowed employers to exclude birth control from health insurance plans on religious or moral grounds. On Wednesday, the court upheld a Trump administration rule which allows employers to opt out of […]
Conservative firebrand Stefan Molyneux has had his Twitter account suspended, just a week after he was banned from YouTube. His removal from the platform comes amid a growing debate over free speech on social media. The ban came without warning, Molyneux claimed during a livestream in which he discussed the […]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of…a bunch of wealthy blowhards deciding that now, of all times, is the appropriate moment to ask us all to stop being so mean to them on Twitter. […]
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump demanded an apology from Bubba Wallace for supposedly perpetrating what he falsely labeled a hate-crime “hoax” after what looked a lot like a noose was found in the Black NASCAR driver’s garage stall. Wallace responded on social media with a message of positivity and […]
Sixteen Twitter accounts tied to a network of fake accounts designed to spread false information about Middle Eastern countries were suspended Monday after The Daily Beast sent Twitter the results of an investigation into the network. Twitter said the accounts were suspended for violating their platform manipulation policy. The network used […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107980/28/1079802846_0:-1:1764:992_1200x675_80_0_0_e5e813e10e13563d3410f6e418781e92.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/viral/202007051079802836-mini-aoc-rips-twitter-with-kanye-west-is-where-barack-obama-was-born-joke/ A tweet from a young AOС impersonator followed American hip-hop star Kanye West’s announcement earlier in the week that he was entering the race for the US presidency, gaining a quick endorsement from SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. A young girl named […]
Eccentric entrepreneur Elon Musk didn’t mince his words when talking about renowned linguist and cognitive scientist Noam Chomsky on social media. Chomsky has criticized Musk’s neurotechnology projects in the past. The SpaceX and Tesla boss shared a list titled “7 Things Every Kid Needs to Hear” on Twitter. One entry […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107979/73/1079797321_0:0:3154:1774_1200x675_80_0_0_ba89ff5fe2c1c3deabc6304325b5978e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007051079797308-did-he-twitter-debating-over-whether-trump-believes-operation-desert-storm-was-in-vietnam/ On Saturday, US President Donald Trump delivered a speech from the White House to mark the 4th of July holiday. At one point in his Independence Day speech, the president spoke about victories achieved by Americans in the past. Users on Twitter have […]
Had the Internet processed the statement made by hip-hop artist Kanye West on his presidential bid, a realization came to some netizens that, if he does make it to the White House, his wife Kim Kardashian, a model, reality-star and influencer, would become the nation’s first lady. Twitterati rolled out […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been admired as the embodiment of female empowerment and someone who defied nepotism and left a mark in the industry. The actress started her B-town journey with the spy thriller “The Hero” in 2000. Bollywood’s Priyanka Chopra Jonas has shared with […]
About six months before anyone had heard of the novel coronavirus, J-L Cauvin made the difficult decision to move out of New York City, where he had spent years trying to make it as a stand-up comic. “I was super depressed about getting a full-time job again and moving to […]
Twitter’s engineering team will systematically purge a list of offensive terms from its source code and internal documents in the name of political correctness. Terms like “master” and “slave” will go, as will gendered pronouns. “We’re starting with a set of words we want to move away from using in […]
On Wednesday, US House of Representatives Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for her “refusal to condemn tearing down” a Golden Gate Park statue of Father Junipero Serra by demonstrators in San Francisco, California – in Pelosi’s district, and called on the Democratic lawmaker […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): News updates about the intense India-China face-off in the Ladakh region, which has been ongoing for over a month, made international headlines throughout June. What hasn’t been spoken of as much is the serious war between the Asian giants heating up by the minute on Twitter. A […]
Donald Trump’s son-in-law has long been dogged by accusations of nepotism and conflicts of interest stemming from his role as White House senior adviser. The Twitter hashtag #HeWentToJared began trending in the United States on Wednesday night after an anti-Trump ad went viral. The ad, put out by the media […]
Twitter has taken down a post by US President Donald Trump, in which he used a photo of himself to make a meme. The tweet was yanked shortly after the Times, embroiled in a bitter feud with Trump, filed a copyright claim. The tweet in question was posted by Trump […]
Twitter Targets Accounts Of Outlets Covering Unrest In Bolivia By Alan Macleod, Mintpress News. July 1, 2020 Twitter Targets Accounts Of Outlets Covering Unrest In Bolivia2020-07-012020-07-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/boliia-e1593622554774.jpg200px200px Above photo: A coca leaf producer kneels holding a bible with his arms outspread asking police to open the way so a march by supports […]
HONG KONG—On Tuesday morning, Beijing’s top legislative body unanimously passed a secretive national security law that specifically applies to Hong Kong, a special autonomous region that until now has enjoyed freedoms that do not exist in most of China. “Local writers who were outspoken against the Chinese government are asking […]
Filmmaker Christopher Nolan has stoked rage online after it emerged that he doesn’t allow actors to use chairs on his sets. Apparently running out of stars to denounce, cancel-happy netizens did not take the news sitting down. The director’s name came up during a webchat for Variety’s ‘Actors on Actors’ […]
A longtime subforum dedicated to fans and supporters of US President Donald Trump has been removed from Reddit, adding to the growing list of social media violations recently attributed to the US president and his supporters. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced in a Monday content policy update that in addition […]