The US president was booted from the social media site for good on Friday, as Twitter embarked on a massive purge in the aftermath of the Capitol Hill debacle. The platform said it decided to lock Trump’s account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” while blocking many …
Read More »Searchers find debris during operation to locate missing Boeing jet in Indonesia (VIDEO)
Jakarta Provincial Fire and Rescue Service announced on its Twitter account that searchers have found debris as they frantically sweep the area in search of the Sriwijaya Air jet, which lost contact with aviation authorities shortly after departing from Jakarta on Saturday. Footage on social media shows searchers holding up …
Read More »Tragic: Hillary Clinton posts accidental self-own with single emoji response to Trump losing Twitter account
As it emerged that Twitter had permanently suspended the US president, for reasons known only to her (and her team of advisers) Clinton decided to dredge up a tweet from her disastrous election bid. The 73-year-old retweeted a post from the 2016 race in which she instructed Trump to “delete …
Read More »Twitter strikes again: Iran’s supreme leader’s tweets about ‘untrustworthy’ UK & US vaccines deleted
Khamenei’s remarks were posted to his multiple accounts, run in different languages, late on Friday. The Twitter thought police, however, were quick to react, purging the messages it deemed “misleading.” “Importing vaccines made in the US or the UK is prohibited. They’re completely untrustworthy. It’s not unlikely they would want …
Read More »Search operation launched after Indonesian jet carrying more than 50 people loses contact
The plane was travelling from Indonesian capital Jakarta to Pontianak in West Kalimantan province and lost contact shortly after taking off on Saturday. Sriwijaya Air said in a statement it is still gathering more detailed information regarding the flight before it can make any statement. FlightRadar24 data indicates the plane …
Read More »Lehigh University RESCINDS honorary degree given to Trump in 1988, citing ‘violent assault on the foundations of our democracy’
The executive committee of Lehigh’s Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to rescind and revoke the honorary degree that was granted to Trump when he spoke at the $70,000-a-year private university’s commencement ceremony in 1988. With explicitly stating reasons for the decision, Lehigh suggested that Trump was at least partly …
Read More »A former Australian general has forecast a war between China and America will happen ‘within 3-5 years’. Is that really likely?
Former Major General and Conservative Liberal Senator Jim Molan has confidently predicted that a war between China and America — that would involve Australia — would occur “within 3-5 years”. On the basis of this forecast, Molan, who served in the Australian army for 40 years, urged the Canberra government …
Read More »Mozilla says ‘deplatforming’ Trump isn’t enough, wants to shield internet from ‘bad actors’ as users uninstall Firefox in disgust
In a blog post titled ‘We need more than deplatforming’, the open-source software community said that Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Trump from its platform didn’t go far enough in weeding out “hate” on the internet. While blaming Trump for the “siege and take-over” of the US Capitol on January …
Read More »‘US democracy is a lie’: Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says Capitol siege is result of Trump’s ‘criminal’ tactics used in Syria, Iraq
“What the Americans witnessed [on Wednesday] was a small result of the crimes that Donald Trump committed during his four years of presidency in Syria, Iraq and Yemen,” Nasrallah said in a TV appearance, also recalling the assassination of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in a US drone strike …
Read More »Trump staffer suspended on Twitter after ‘offering’ account to president
Coby received a suspension after apparently offering his account to White House social media director Dan Scavino. In a public message tweeted at Scavino, Coby suggested that he had made changes to his profile that would allow Trump to immediately begin tweeting. “Texting you my Twitter login,” he wrote to …
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