SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter, reacting to growing concern about misinformation spread on social media, is banning all political advertising from its service. Its move strikes a sharp contrast with Facebook, which continues to defend running paid political ads, even false ones, as a free speech priority. “While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very […]
President Donald Trump on Wednesday used Twitter to share an edited video made by a conservative comedian that falsely accused Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of dancing and partying last week on the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The inaccurate video provoked new Twitter criticism of the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota, who has regularly […]
O.J. Simpson hasn’t been on Twitter for more than a week and he’s already being accused of sending threatening messages to a parody account named @KillerOJSimpson. The DailyMail reports that on Sunday, seven direct messages were reportedly sent from Simpson’s social media profile, @TheRealOJ32, to @KillerOJSimpson, an account that mocks the Football Hall of Famer. Simpson reportedly […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Presidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels. The new policy , announced by the company on Thursday, comes amid complaints from activists and others that President Donald Trump has gotten a free pass from […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson launched a Twitter account with a video post in which the former football star said he’s got a “little gettin’ even to do.” Simpson confirmed the new account to The Associated Press on Saturday, saying in a phone interview while on a Las Vegas golf course that it “will […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government’s agenda. Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to a public database it launched last year to track its battle against government-linked misinformation. It is also adding a smaller number […]
Trump supporters always find a way to support and defend him. One of those supporters defended him and seemingly gave him a new nickname yesterday. Newt Gingrich got on Twitter and posted a tweet full of typos. Huggy says maybe he shouldn’t try to multitask. The tweet read: “Muller tried today to have iut boith […]
Black Twitter has cancelled Cardi B following her reveal that she used to drug and rob men when she was a stripper. “I had to go strip, I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to f*ck me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’ and I drugged n***as up, and I robbed them. That’s […]
Bill Cosby and his wife Camille agreed that she will never visit him in prison while he’s serving three to 10 years for the sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Mrs. Cosby celebrated her 75th birthday on March 20 and someone on Bill’s team posted a message to his “beautiful bride, Camille” on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. It said, “Dear, you’re a […]
There’s always a new rapper that the kids are all listening to, so it can be hard to keep up! And at times there’s no reason to keep up because a lot of these “hot” or “poppin” artists are here today and gone tomorrow. But there’s one name that doesn’t seem to be going away […]
Fans were promoted to send Tiffany Haddish some words of praise and encouragement after she shared her frustrations on Twitter about industry insiders and so-called friends who are playing her shady. “Yesterday I learned that people that say ‘they care about you or they got your back’ only mean that when they think it benefits them, I […]
Oscar-winning actor Don Cheadle had to remind comedian Kathy Griffin that they were “never friends” after she lashed out at him on Twitter for not supporting her during her 2017 “smear campaign”. Griffin slammed Cheadle early Tuesday morning for not taking her side when she held up Donald Trump’s bloody, severed head in a since-deleted video. While many celebrities […]
