In a series of bad news for Twitter, the company could face a fine of over $250 million in the United States. The company will have to pay US authorities for its unauthorised use of phone numbers and email addressed in order to increase the reach of advertisements.

Twitter could face a fine of upto $250 million for unauthorised usage of user data

A teenager was arrested for being the “mastermind” behind the Twitter Inc hack, which compromised the profiles of many prominent personalities and organisations.

US teenager arrested for masterminding massive Twitter hack

Social media giant Twitter on Friday explained how Bitcoin scammers hijacked celebrity accounts of Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and Kim Kardashian two weeks ago. The tech firm revealed that hackers responsible for the recent high-profile breach used a phone to fool the social media company's employees into giving them access.

Twitter reveals how Bitcoin scammers hijacked celebrity accounts

Since the beginning of this year, Hong Kong has been a ground of pro democracy protestors clashing with the Hong Kong police department. Protestors had been chanting 'Hong Kong for Independence' in their protests.

Hong Kong police unknowingly helps #HKIndependence trend on Twitter

The chief executives of four of the world's largest tech companies will argue in a congressional hearing on antitrust on Wednesday that they face intense competition from each other and from other rivals -- painting them as US success stories in a fiercely competitive world.

Tech giants to defend their companies as US success stories in antitrust hearing

British interior minister Priti Patel said on Sunday she had asked Twitter and Instagram for a full explanation of why anti-Semitic comments made by rap artist Wiley remained on the social media platforms for so long.

UK critical of Twitter, Instagram for being slow to remove Wiley's posts

Twitter and Facebook suspended the accounts Friday of 16 allies of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro after a Supreme Court judge ordered them blocked as part of a probe into an alleged disinformation campaign.

Twitter, Facebook block accounts of Bolsonaro allies

Twitter looking at more ways to make money from users, eyeing on subscription option. Watch this video to know more.

Twitter looking at more ways to make money from users, eyeing on subscription option

Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands.

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it would permanently suspend accounts that violate its policies while tweeting about QAnon, a fringe group that claims "deep-state" traitors are plotting against President Donald Trump.

Twitter announces broad crackdown on conspiracy theory group QAnon

Twitter Inc has disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint. The video -- retweeted from White House social media director Dan Scavino -- included music from the group Linkin Park, and got disappeared from the president's Twitter feed late Saturday with the notification -- "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.

Twitter disables Trump tweet over copyright complaint

The domestic intelligence and security service of the United States FBI is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking of major companies and individuals, as more Washington lawmakers raised alarms about the breach of high-profile accounts on the social media platform.

FBI probes mega Twitter hack

Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week, but said none of them were verified accounts.

Twitter says attackers downloaded data from up to eight non-verified accounts

Some of America's richest and powerful names were targeted by hackers on Twitter. The list of victims includes Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos & Barack Obama. Can twitter survive the bitcoin hack? WION's Executive Editor Palki Sharma Upadhyay gets you a report.

Gravitas: Can Twitter survive the Bitcoin scam?

Several high-profile Twitter accounts were simultaneously hacked on July 15 by attackers who used the accounts with millions of followers to spread a cryptocurrency scam. watch report.

Bitcoin scammers hack Twitter | Prominent US personalities hacked

Twitter has suspended more than 50 white nationalist accounts for violating policies against violent extremism. "The accounts in question were suspended for violating our policies in relation to violent extremism," a Twitter spokesman told AFP, confirming a report by NBC News.

Several white nationalist Twitter accounts suspended

Trump's party has come out in support of the US President Donald Trump and has accused Twitter of being biased against conservatives. Two US Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused Twitter of being biased against conservatives.

Republican lawmakers accuse Twitter of being biased against conservatives

US tech giants face a reckoning over how Hong Kong's security law will reshape their businesses, with their suspension of processing government requests for user data a stop-gap measure as they weigh options, people close to the industry say.

US tech giants face hard choices under Hong Kong's new security law

TikTok says it will stop offering its social video app in Hong Kong after the region adopted a new national security law granting expanded powers to the mainland Chinese government.

TikTok pulls out of Hong Kong due to new security law

Canada`s biggest lenders confirmed on Friday they had joined a widespread boycott of Facebook Inc begun by U.S. civil rights groups seeking to pressure the world`s largest social media platform to take concrete steps to block hate speech.

Canada's biggest banks join boycott of Facebook platforms

As the 'Black lives matter' movement took over the world, a lot of organisations are taking out words that can seem offensive and can hurt sentiments. Following the same, Twitter has decided to remove words such as "master," "slave" and "blacklist" from its code after two engineers lobbied for the use of more inclusive programming language.

Twitter to remove words like 'master', 'blacklist' and 'slave' from its code

In the wake of the latest surge in the coronavirus cases in the United States, Facebook said it will remind users to wear masks to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Facebook, Twitter encourage people to wear masks

Google said that it had removed search ads that charged users searching for voting information large fees for voter registration or harvested their personal data.

Google removes misleading ads in voting-related searches

Coca-Cola, a major force in global advertising, announced Friday it would suspend ads on social media for at least 30 days, as platforms face a reckoning over how they deal with racist content.

Coca-Cola says pausing social media advertising

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