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RT France to close after accounts frozen

RT’s French subsidiary will cease broadcasting after its accounts were frozen by the French treasury, its director, Xenia Fedorova, announced…

1 year ago

Pentagon accounts for abandoned weapons

US forces left behind more than $7 billion in military equipment during their chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan last August, the…

2 years ago

Twitter deletes ‘pro-Moscow’ Indian accounts

A number of allegedly "pro-Russian" Twitter accounts in India have been suspended for apparent “coordinated inauthentic behavior” after posting messages…

2 years ago

Twitter purges thousands of ‘state-linked’ accounts

Thursday’s ban affects 3,465 accounts, the most so far under the social media company’s push to remove users that spread…

2 years ago

Talibanned? Social media wrangles with accounts deemed ‘terrorist’ as Taliban returns to power in Afghanistan

Facebook, which claims it has blacklisted Taliban-linked groups under its “dangerous organizations policy” for “years” due to US Treasury Department…

3 years ago

UK radio host says strip ‘racists’ of bank accounts, passports and ability to ‘have a life’ after Euro 2020 racism row

Graham ranted on his talk show on Tuesday morning, decrying the racist social media messages that were posted after England…

3 years ago

Twitter isn’t censoring accounts to keep users ‘safe’, it is using its power to spoon-feed the world establishment narratives

Last week, Simon Goddek, who has a PhD in biotechnology and researches system dynamics, tweeted a link to a scientific…

3 years ago

‘System irregularity’ leaves Twitter users in the dark & support accounts down as outage continues

Twitter users first experienced problems logging in and loading tweets on Friday night. Amid tens of thousands of error reports,…

3 years ago

Facebook bans Myanmar military accounts with immediate effect over coup

The social media company said it was left with no choice but to ban the accounts following the “deadly violence”…

3 years ago

In fresh censorship, Twitter bans ‘Russian’ accounts it says are ‘undermining confidence in NATO’ amid rising tensions with Moscow

On Tuesday, Russian media reported that the San Francisco-based microblogging platform had confirmed at least 100 of the bans were…

3 years ago