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A student attacks his classmates with a hammer and injures two before being subdued by other students at a high school in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. The attack was streamed on X, where the perpetrator published Nazi views and other violent content.
2024-11-30

Meta deletes Al Jazeera Arabic presenter Tamer Almisshal's Facebook profile a day after a programme aired an investigation into Meta’s censorship of Palestinian content.
2023-09-10

Thousands of users of Twitter worldwide report issues on using the social media platform including the inability to view new posts on their main timelines.
2023-03-1

The legal team representing entrepreneur Elon Musk files a claim to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to officially terminate his deal to purchase Twitter, saying that the company made "false and misleading" statements during negotiations.
2022-07-8

American investment management firm Elliott Management Corporation buys a significant stake in Twitter, and announces it will seek to make several changes to their management, including possibly replacing CEO Jack Dorsey.
2020-02-28

U.S. television network ABC cancels its recently revived sitcom "Roseanne" following a controversial tweet from Roseanne Barr about former U.S. President Barack Obama aide Valerie Jarrett.
2018-05-29

The documents include names of individuals and companies such as that of United States businessman and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, United Kingdom monarch Elizabeth II, Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Russian-Uzbek business magnate Alisher Usmanov, the social media companies Twitter and Facebook, and pop stars Bono and Madonna.
2017-11-5

The City of Orlando requests, via Twitter, citizens, "... hold off on vigils — they represent a serious strain on our limited resources, which we need to dedicate to law enforcement and victims."
2016-06-12

Malaysia deports Saudi Arabian journalist Hamzar Kashgari, accused of insulting the prophet Muhammad in a tweet.
2012-02-12

Reporters Without Borders condemns "the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure" against the WikiLeaks website, describing it as the first "attempt at the international community level to censor a website dedicated to the principle of transparency" and comparing the behaviour of France and the United States to that of China. American payment service provider PayPal cuts off the account the WikiLeaks website uses to collect donations.
2010-12-4