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Project Veritas Founder James O’Keefe Accuses Twitter Of Bowing To Mainstream Media Pressure

Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe returned to Twitter last night and accused the social media giant of bowing to mainstream pressure. This came after the platform permanently suspended the account of the notable conservative activist group. In a video shared to O’Keefe’s personal profile, he noted that the Project Veritas suspension was initially supposed to […]

By Kieran Fisher | 2y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Responds To Donald Trump’s Claim That He Is Being Censored

A video posted by Donald Trump’s campaign was pulled off of social media after complaints about copyright infringement, but the president used the opportunity to claim that he was being censored by Twitter, who he says is on the side of “Radical Left Democrats.” Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wasn’t about to let the misinformation stand, […]

By Kristine Lofgren | 3y ago

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Called Out Twitter For Fact Checking Donald Trump

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg came out against his competitor’s site and said he disagreed with Twitter’s decision to fact check President Donald Trump’s tweets. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been in the midst of a firestorm ever since his platform fact-checked the president’s recent tweets, causing a backlash from both everyday users and the president […]

By Savannah Hulsey Pointer | 3y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Stands By Decision To Fact-Check Tweets Posted By President Trump

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey used the very social media platform that he manages to double down on the company’s decision to fact-check tweets by President Donald Trump, CNBC reported. On Tuesday, Twitter took the unprecedented step of adding warning labels to two tweets posted by the POTUS, who is known to use Twitter to advance […]

By Aaron Homer | 3y ago

Jack Dorsey Donates $5 Million To Andrew Yang’s Non-Profit For Universal Basic Income Efforts

Billionaire and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared on Andrew Yang’s Yang Speaks podcast on Thursday and announced that he would be giving $5 million to the former Democratic presidential candidate’s universal basic income (UBI) efforts, Rolling Stone reported. The money will go directly to Humanity Forward, Yang’s non-profit, which is launching its first big UBI […]

By Tyler MacDonald | 3y ago

Jay-Z And Meek Mill’s Organization, REFORM Alliance, Receives $10 Million Donation

On May 11, CBS News reported that Jay-Z and Meek Mill’s organization, REFORM Alliance, received a big boost from Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey via a $10 million donation. The funds will go toward providing masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) to those currently incarcerated — or working in correctional facilities — to prevent the spread […]

By Kristen Markel | 3y ago

Trump Supporter Buys Large Stake In Twitter, Reportedly Plans To Oust CEO Jack Dorsey

Donald Trump supporter and influential Republican donor Paul Singer just purchased a large stake in social media platform Twitter. In the aftermath of the move, reports are circulating that the conservative hopes to oust Jack Dorsey from his role of CEO, among other changes, according to Bloomberg. Singer made the purchase through his management firm […]

By Anna Harnes | 3y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Announces He’s Moving To Africa, Says It Will Define Bitcoin Future

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced in a tweet this week that he would be moving to Africa for at least a portion of the upcoming year in a message that claimed the continent was the future — particularly for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Dorsey said he’d be living somewhere on the continent for at least three […]

By Connor Perrett | 3y ago

Twitter CEO Announces Platform Will Ban All Political Ads Starting November 22

In a bombshell statement that will at least partially alter the current political advertising landscape, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the platform will ban all paid political ads starting in November. According to CNBC, Dorsey tweeted the news on Wednesday afternoon and revealed why the company thinks political social reach should be […]

By Ryan Ledendecker | 3y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Was Hacked

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s account was hacked on the social media platform. As an article by Business Insider reports, the account raised alarm on Friday when it started sending out a string of racist and anti-semitic tweets. The tweets have been deleted, but the screenshots are circulating on Twitter, nevertheless. “We’re aware that @jack was […]

By Patricia Grannum | 4y ago

Sacha Baron Cohen Says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Helped Elect Donald Trump President

Comedian, actor, and provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen recently used his appearance on Variety‘s Actors on Actors video series to criticize Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. IMDb reports that the Who Is America? creator made the comment while talking to Don Cheadle, and said that Dorsey is one of the reasons that Trump got elected president. “Trump […]

By Tyler MacDonald | 4y ago

Ilhan Omar Got A Call From Twitter CEO After Threats

At least twice in the last two weeks, men have been arrested for directing death threats at Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, including a man from Florida who, per The Inquisitr, also threatened several other Democrat officials. Some supporters of the freshman Congresswoman have tied the threats to a video posted to Twitter earlier this month […]

By Stephen Silver | 4y ago

Twitter Rolling Out Tool For Tagging Misleading Election Tweets

On the same day that President Trump held a meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, the social networking platform announced that it’s rolling out a new tool to allow users to report tweets which hold the potential to mislead voters. As first reported by Buzzfeed, Twitter will first roll out the new tool for the […]

By Stephen Silver | 4y ago

Donald Trump Met With Twitter CEO To Complain About Losing Followers

Donald Trump started his morning on Tuesday attacking Twitter and complaining that the social media platform was unfairly removing his followers. By the end of his work day, he was meeting with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to air out his complaints in person, according to The Washington Post. The president’s main concern seems to have […]

By Kristine Lofgren | 4y ago

Twitter Like Button To Be Removed ‘Soon,’ Some Users Remain Skeptical

Twitter hopes that its plans to remove the “like” button from its platform will help improve the quality of debates that occur on the popular social media platform. The Telegraph reported that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey does not love the platform’s heart-shaped button that indicates a user “likes” a tweet. The heart has been around […]

By Rachel Dillin | 4y ago

Trump Jr. Comes To James Woods’ Defense Over Twitter Lockout Controversy

Donald Trump Jr. came to the defense of actor James Woods after he was locked out of his account. Woods’ social media crime? Sharing a meme that Twitter perceived as having the potential to influence the upcoming midterm elections. The president’s son tweeted in defense of Woods, continuing the narrative that Twitter is biased against […]

By Joe Evans | 5y ago

James Woods Finds Out Twitter Account Is Suspended, Calls Out Their CEO

James Woods, the outspoken star of such movies as Videodrome, Once Upon A Time in America, and Casino, found himself in the cross-hairs of Twitter after posting a hoax campaign meme in July. And, even though Woods commented on the post that the meme most likely wasn’t legit, Twitter decided it violated their rules and […]

By Holly Chavez | 5y ago

The First Sketch Ever Of Twitter By Jack Dorsey Is Revealed, And Users Are Wowed

Although Twitter is a household name now, it was at one point just a part of Jack Dorsey’s imagination. Twitter revealed the first sketch ever of the platform by Dorsey on their page today, and captioned the photo “@jack’s very first drawing of us back in 2005. Love ya, Dad!” Fans reacted positively to the […]

By Mizuki Hisaka | 5y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Laments That Conservative Employees Are Terrified Of Expressing Their Opinions Now

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently confessed to a professor at NYU that the workplace as a whole at Twitter is so entrenched in liberal beliefs and ideology that its conservative employees “don’t feel safe to express their opinions.” This marks a sharp U-turn among Silicon Valley executives as those at both YouTube and Facebook have […]

By Kristine Moore | 5y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says Conservative Employees ‘Don’t Feel Safe To Express Their Opinions’ At The Company

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey revealed on a recent podcast that he felt Twitter had become so liberal that conservative employees “don’t feel safe to express their opinions” within the company, according to Recode. “We have a lot of conservative-leaning folks in the company as well, and to be honest, they don’t feel safe to express […]

By Joe Evans | 5y ago

Alex Jones Permanently Suspended From Twitter Because Of ‘Abusive Behavior’

Alex Jones has been permanently banned from Twitter for “abusive behavior,” as they belatedly follow the lead of other social media platforms in closing its virtual doors to the shock jock and his content. “Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope,” their official tweet about the situation read. “We took this […]

By Patricia Grannum | 5y ago

Billy Long Uses Auctioneering Skills To Silence Protester At Twitter Hearing

It’s rare that comedy comes to the floor of the United States Congress much less a staged auction, but that’s exactly what happened on Wednesday thanks to Missouri Republican lawmaker Billy Long, reports Fox News. With Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaking before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the far-right protester Laura Loomer jumped up […]

By Chris Hockman | 5y ago

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg & Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey To Testify Before Senate Intelligence Committee

Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, admitted that her company was “too slow to spot” and “too slow to act,” on Russian election meddling in 2016 through social media, according to a prepared statement she gave to Congress Wednesday in a joint appearance with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Sandberg and Dorsey appeared in front of […]

By Clyde Hughes | 5y ago

Alex Jones’ Twitter Account Protected By Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

Unlike other social media platforms, Twitter has yet to ban Infowars‘ Alex Jones from its platform, but the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the decision to keep Jones on the platform was one made solely by CEO Jack Dorsey. Dorsey reportedly overruled his staff on banning Jones, continuing to give him a platform […]

By Chris Hockman | 5y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Will Testify Before GOP House Panel

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will now testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on September 5. According to The Hill, Republican lawmakers claim they are being unfairly censored by the social media juggernaut. “Twitter is an incredibly powerful platform that can change the national conversation in the time it takes a tweet to go […]

By Amanda Ross | 5y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Denies Allegations That Site Is Censoring Conservatives

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has denied allegations that the site is censoring conservative voices. In an interview with CNN‘s Brian Stelter, Dorsey admitted that his company is “left-leaning” but maintained that does not mean it prejudices the voices of its users based on their political inclinations. Dorsey was speaking in light of the growing criticism […]

By Mohit Priyadarshi | 5y ago

Twitter Hammered, Shares Plummet As They Fight Fake Accounts And Spam

It’s been a bad week for social media this week, with Twitter Inc. taking a hard hit on the nose in the way of both the loss of active users and plummeting shares. The social media site’s stocks sold off this morning after they announced the loss of an estimated 1 million users during the […]

By Holly Chavez | 5y ago

Donald Trump Continues To Take Huge Followers Hit After Twitter Purges Frozen Accounts, Twitter CEO Too

It’s not news that President Donald Trump has always loved to speak his mind on Twitter, but now, he’s going to be doing it to a smaller number of followers than he had before. On Wednesday, Twitter announced that they were performing a “purge,” of sorts, which would get rid of frozen or suspicious accounts. […]

By Danny Cox | 5y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Eats At Chick-Fil-A During Pride Month, Gets Roundly Criticized

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is under fire for a poorly timed tweet about eating a Chick-Fil-A, apparently failing to realize that it’s Pride Month and the fast-food chicken chain has been associated with anti-gay causes in the past. As Yahoo News reports, Saturday’s tweet was at once innocuous and intended to promote a new Twitter […]

By Aaron Homer | 5y ago

GOP Officials Demand Facebook And Twitter Respond To Content Censorship Allegations

Despite assurances by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Washington and in the European Parliament in Brussels that his social media platform is open to all political ideologies, the Republican Party isn’t so sure. On Tuesday, MEP Nigel Farage told Zuckerberg that since Facebook changed its algorithms earlier this year, many right-of-center commentators who advocate mainstream […]

By Robert Jonathan | 5y ago

Keith Coleman Named Product Chief Of Twitter

On Thursday, Dec. 1, Twitter acquired a small startup and hired on its founder as its new product chief, the Wall Street Journal reports. Keith Coleman – founder and chief executive of Yes Inc. – was appointed Twitter’s vice president of product. In addition to Coleman, Twitter is also hiring the remaining staff of Yes […]

By Tabitha Britt | 6y ago

Twitter CEO Gets His Own Account Suspended: Jack Dorsey’s Follower Count Plummets By A Few Million Due To Internal Glitch [Update]

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and CEO, was left red-faced after his own social media platform suspended his verified account. Dorsey’s account might have disappeared for less than an hour, but he lost a few million followers. The Twitter account belonging to Jack Dorsey vanished briefly Tuesday night before reappearing within half an hour. While the […]

By Patrick Frye | 6y ago

Twitter Character Limit Stays At 140, But Platform Undergoes Nifty Changes That Exclude A Variety Of Additions To The Tweet

Twitter is staying loyal to the 140-character limit that initially made it famous. However, the platform has undergone several improvements that will allow the tweets to be longer. For many who expected Twitter to ditch the rather measly 140-characters limit, there’s bittersweet news. While the platform won’t allow for more characters, the amount of information […]

By Patrick Frye | 7y ago

Leslie Jones Hack And Cyberbullying: Can Twitter’s Rumored New Feature Stop The Online Abuse?

Incidents like the recent hack of Leslie Jones’ website, and the stream of social media abuse that she dealt with before it, have brought the cyberbullying topic to the forefront for Twitter once again. In the past, Twitter has been criticized for the way they’ve handled cyberbullying; there have been multiple reports of teenagers committing […]

By Bradleigh Ann Walker | 7y ago

Milo Yiannopoulos, ‘Breitbart’ Writer And Agent Provocateur, Officially Banned From Twitter

Milo Yiannopoulos, writer for Breitbart Tech, GamerGate’s “based journalist,” and agent-provocateur-in-chief, has finally been banned from Twitter after coming under fire for directing hate speech at Ghostbusters star Leslie Jones, beginning with a series of faked tweets. Yiannopoulos has drawn fire before for siccing an “internet hate mob” on his various targets through slanderous hit […]

By Don Crothers | 7y ago

ISIS Threatens Facebook And Twitter As They Plot To Kill Mark Zuckerberg And Jack Dorsey

ISIS threatens Facebook and Twitter in a new propaganda video in the aftermath of the latest battle between the social media sites and ISIS. Vocativ reports that the Islamic State terrorists released a propaganda video from their hacker wing, Sons Caliphate Army. The group is vowing to destroy social media for us all. The old […]

By Kim McLendon | 7y ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Talks About Algorithmic Timeline – Dismisses #RIPTwitter Controversy, But Hints At Change

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dismissed the #RIPTwitter hashtag that had gone viral after rumors surfaced the micro-blogging network was implementing an algorithmic timeline for tweets. Despite an earnest attempt to pacify his millions of concerned users, Dorsey did hint about impending changes that could have long-term implications. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey attempted to pacify his […]

By Alap Naik Desai | 7y ago

Will Twitter Shakeups Make It Relevant Again?

Twitter just fired four top executives and plans to continue its corporate shakeups even more in the coming weeks, but will the changes make the social media platform relevant once again? The social media giant faces a cynical Wall Street whose investors are skeptical about the company’s future along with users who are fleeing to […]

By Coburn Palmer | 7y ago

Twitter Executive Revamp Inbound Amidst Crashing Share Prices

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) hasn’t been having a very good week; its share price hit record lows earlier in the week, dropping below $16 for the first time in its more than two years since an initial public offering at $26, according to a report from The Independent. The micro-blogging platform, which has been criticized recently […]

By Don Crothers | 7y ago

Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Gets Booted From ‘Billionaire Club’ As Twitter Shares Hit A Record Low

The Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has been booted from the “billionaire club” after Twitter shares hit a record low. The social media mogul had his net worth drop from over $2.2 billion to $944 million, removing the tech guru from his prized billionaire status. Dorsey lost over $1.2 billion of his net worth in just […]

By Tara West | 7y ago

Twitter Expanding Character Limit To 10,000, CEO Jack Dorsey Wants An Edge Over Facebook

Twitter may be expanding its message character limit from 140 to 10,000. Should the change happen, it would be another effort by the social media juggernaut to make the service more user-friendly and give users a reason to stay off Facebook. As CNN Money pointed out, rampant speculation about Twitter expanding the character limit started […]

By John Houck | 7y ago

Twitter’s Plan To Expand Its Character-Limit For Tweets To 10,000 Sends Internet Into A Frenzy, But Is It A Hoax?

Is Twitter about to ditch its trademark 140-character limit and go for the jugular? Recent reports emerging on the internet suggest so, meaning the death of Twitter as we know it might not be far away. Over the last couple of days, internet has been rife with reports about the higher echelons of Twitter seriously […]

By Mohit Priyadarshi | 7y ago

CEO Of Twitter Jack Dorsey Gives Back $200 Million Of Stock Boosting Company Morale After Layoffs

The CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, is giving up more than $200 million of Twitter stock and sharing it with employees. This represents about one-third or 6.8 million of the total shares of Twitter owned by Dorsey. Based on Twitter’s market value, Dorsey’s current 15 million shares are worth about $460 million. This may seem […]

By John Houck | 8y ago

Twitter Stock Pops After Steve Ballmer Praises Layoffs, Announces 4% Share

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took to Twitter for the first time in recent memory, using a new account on Friday to praise newly-permanent Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on his “leaner, more focused” vision, according to a report from CNET. Ballmer, who revealed that he had “bought 4% in the past few months” also noted […]

By Don Crothers | 8y ago

Twitter Laying Off 8 Percent Of All Employees — What’s Going Wrong?

Shortly after announcing that Twitter was heading in a direction that was “extremely strong and beautiful,” Chief Executive of the company Jack Dorsey revealed that Twitter will be laying off a staggering 8 percent of its staff. According to the L.A. Times, this includes 336 out of 4,100 employees across the globe. While Twitter claims […]

By Benjamin Simon | 8y ago

Twitter Layoffs Reportedly To Be Announced Next Week

Across-the-board Twitter layoffs at the company’s San Francisco headquarters and in satellite offices are reportedly planned for as early as Monday, with significant numbers of employees possibly getting the axe as part of a corporate cost-cutting effort. Twitter has about 4,000 employees in San Francisco and about 35 venues across the world, about 50 percent […]

By Robert Jonathan | 8y ago

Kim Kardashian Twitter: Reality Star Requests Major Change, CEO Responds

Reality star Kim Kardashian may have taken the first step towards changing Twitter forever! The 35-year-old Keeping up with the Kardashians star is apparently frustrated with the social media platform for its lack of editing capabilities. Instead of simply complaining about it, Kim decided to take action by sending an email to the people working […]

By Jonathan Franks | 8y ago

Jack Dorsey’s Return To Twitter Elicits Mixed Reactions

Jack Dorsey is one of the most eccentric corporate figures in the United States. And on Thursday, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter was announced to take over the helms of the social media giant after Dick Costolo resigned. Costolo said the following in his resignation statement. “I am tremendously proud of the Twitter […]

By Elizabeth Gail | 8y ago

ISIS Twitter Death Threats Issued Against Jack Dorsey And Staffers

Twitter shut down about 2,000 ISIS linked accounts, prompting death threats against the social network’s co-founder. The ISIS Twitter accounts shut down reportedly include some of the “most important distributors” of Islamic State messages. The ISIS Twitter co-founder death threat against Jack Dorsey was issued on Monday afternoon. Supporters of the Islamic State posted online […]

By Tara Dodrill | 8y ago

ISIS Threatens Twitter Founder And Employees

At the same time the terrorist group that calls itself Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), also known as ISIL, surprised the world by releasing 19 of the 220 Syrian Christians kidnapped last week, its supporters have been threatening Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey and other Twitter employees. The threats were made on justpasteit.com in […]

By Michele Barard | 8y ago

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