Netflix Inc. on Wednesday laid out plans to crack down on password sharing for accounts on its streaming platform, including setting up primary location and paying a couple of dollars for an extra member. The video-streaming giant, which has estimated that 100 million around the world use a shared account, said that members can now […]
Elon Musk confirmed on Friday that Kanye West’s Twitter account has been suspended shortly after the rapper posted a Swastika merged with a Star of David and shared private messages between the two. Twitter’s chief executive was responding to a Twitter user who had asked the businessman to “fix Kanye please” after the rapper’s account was […]
New Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Nov. 24 that he would begin granting “amnesty” for some previously banned accounts on the social media platform starting next week. The move marks a reversal from the site’s previous policies regarding content moderation. “The people have spoken,” Musk wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “Amnesty begins next week. […]
Twitter paused its recently announced $8 blue check subscription service on Friday and it remained inactive on Saturday after a wave of blue check accounts appeared, impersonating big brands and making embarrassing posts. Several users reported on Friday that the new subscription option for the blue verification check mark had disappeared, while Reuters reported that […]
Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, the Republican candidate for Secretary of State, wrote Monday that his Twitter account was suspended and then restored as new owner Elon Musk confirmed he would look into the incident—just about a week out from the 2022 midterm elections. “Twitter has blocked my account from speaking truth with one week […]
Instagram said on Monday it had fixed a software bug that prevented thousands of users from accessing the photo-sharing platform for about eight hours and led to complaints of accounts being suspended. “We’ve resolved this bug now—it was causing people in different parts of the world to have issues accessing their accounts and caused a […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official WeChat account has been hijacked and rebranded as a lifestyle page—leading one senator to accuse the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of “foreign interference” during an election year. According to the Daily Telegraph, the agency running the prime minister’s WeChat account reported problems with posting content on the channel in […]
LinkedIn has reinstated the account of mRNA technology inventor Dr. Robert Malone, who said his page was deleted after he made comments about mRNA COVID-19 vaccines
Twitter, followed by Facebook later in the day, disabled the account of President Donald Trump after deleting recent posts made by the president, including a video of him calling on protesters who had gathered on Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington to go home in peace. “As a result of the unprecedented and […]
