US District Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ruled on Wednesday that President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account. The federal judge found that Trump’s Twitter account is effectively a public forum and therefore he cannot block people from viewing it. Furthermore even though @realDonaldTrump is […]
Bloomberg is preparing to launch its TicToc 24/7 streaming news network on Monday morning. The service will stream on Twitter and begin at 8 AM ET. While Bloomberg is primarily known for its business news, TicToc will cover a more general set of news. TicToc does not have a set […]
Twitter announced on Tuesday new transparency measures for advertising served on its platform. Some of the measures, like a new Transparency Center, will affect all advertising while other measures are designed to provide specific information regarding political ads. Electioneering ads, or ads that advocate for a specific candidate, will have a […]
Twitter blocked Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), who is running to replace Senator Bob Corker, from promoting a tweet that featured her campaign announcement video. In the video, Blackburn speaks of her efforts investigating Planned Parenthood and says, “I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts. […]
The online social media platform Twitter is incredibly popular among reporters and politicians alike. President Donald Trump’s tweets regularly spark numerous news articles and the then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the President’s tweets should be considered “official statements.” Now the Office of Government Ethics has ruled that […]
