Twitter board, which implemented ‘poison pill’ to stop Musk, owns less than 1 percent of company stock

Twitter board, which implemented ‘poison pill’ to stop Musk, owns less than 1 percent of company stock

by WorldTribune Staff, April 18, 2022 Twitter’s board decided on Friday to implement a so-called “poison pill” strategy in an effort to stop Elon Musk’s $43 billion bid to buy the company. It turns out that, other than Jack Dorsey (who plans on leaving the board later this year), Twitter’s board members own less than […]

Trump declares class action legal war on Big Tech, ‘the de facto censorship arm of the U.S. government’

Trump declares class action legal war on Big Tech, ‘the de facto censorship arm of the U.S. government’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 7, 2021 Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday fired a major salvo against Big Tech censorship of conservatives and the America First movement as he filed a class action lawsuit against the CEOs of Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Trump announced at a press conference that he is the lead class representative […]

Twitter values: Russia threatens ban if platform doesn’t remove child porn

Twitter values: Russia threatens ban if platform doesn’t remove child porn

by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2021 Russia is giving Twitter 30 days to remove illegal content, including child pornography, or be banned from the country. Vadim Subbotin, deputy head of Roskomnadzor, Russia’s equivalent of the FCC, said Twitter was not reacting to requests to remove illegal content “as they should,” and that the social network […]

Parler may be down for a week; CEO slams Facebook, Twitter oligarchs for censorship

Parler may be down for a week; CEO slams Facebook, Twitter oligarchs for censorship

by WorldTribune Staff, January 10, 2021 After Big Tech censors aimed their guns at Parler, the free speech platform’s CEO John Matze said it may be down for up to a week. “Sunday (tomorrow) at midnight Amazon will be shutting off all of our servers in an attempt to completely remove free speech off the […]

Computer repair shop owner in Hunter Biden laptop case sues Twitter for $500 million

Computer repair shop owner in Hunter Biden laptop case sues Twitter for $500 million

by WorldTribune Staff, December 29, 2020 The Delaware computer repair shop owner who turned Hunter Biden’s laptop over to the FBI is suing Twitter for $500 million for defamation, saying the social media platform unfairly branded him a “hacker.” John Paul Mac Isaac filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami, John Solomon […]

Twitter suspends Border Protection chief after he tweets on success of Trump’s wall

Twitter suspends Border Protection chief after he tweets on success of Trump’s wall

by WorldTribune Staff, October 29, 2020 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Mark Morgan took to Twitter on Wednesday to tout the success of President Donald Trump’s border wall. Morgan tweeted: “Every mile helps us stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators and drugs from entering our country.” Twitter suspended Morgan’s account. “According to screenshots […]

Sen. Cruz: Big tech censorship is ‘single greatest threat to democracy in America today’

Sen. Cruz: Big tech censorship is ‘single greatest threat to democracy in America today’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 21, 2020 Twitter and Facebook “crossed a rubicon that they had not previously even dreamed of crossing” when they censored the New York Post’s reporting on evidence of Biden family corruption, Sen. Ted Cruz said. The Texas Republican told reporters Monday that the social media giants could face “potentially serious campaign […]

Silicon Valley and the 2020 election: Trump censored 65 times; Biden 0

Silicon Valley and the 2020 election: Trump censored 65 times; Biden 0

by WorldTribune Staff, October 19, 2020 Twitter and Facebook have censored President Donald Trump’s social media accounts and the accounts belonging to his re-election campaign at least 65 times during this election season, a media watchdog group noted. Number of times Joe Biden and his campaign accounts have been censored? Zero. “Twitter composes the bulk […]

Silencing the president: Battle breaks out between Silicon Valley’s ‘arbiters of truth’

Silencing the president: Battle breaks out between Silicon Valley’s ‘arbiters of truth’

by WorldTribune Staff, May 31, 2020 Leftists have been calling on Twitter to suspend President Donald Trump’s account since the day he was sworn in. Now Twitter is seen caving to the constant harping of major media and many Democrats for the social media platform to censor the president’s tweets. Twitter slapped a misinformation label […]