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Chinese embassy’s Twitter account locked after post defending treatment of Uighurs — The Hill

Twitter on Thursday locked the account of the Chinese Embassy in Washington over a tweet defending Beijing’s policy toward Uighur Muslims, which the U.S....

Trump’s ban from Twitter creates the ultimate case of link rot in posts across the internet — The Verge

Thousands of tweets he put forth from his realDonaldTrump account over the past decade were wiped out, writes Kim Lyons. Here is the link: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/9/22222371/trump-ban-twitter-link-rot-embedded-dead-posts (If...

The questions the CEOs declined to answer — Protocol

Every congressional hearing with the tech CEOs has been rife with promises they will "get back" to lawmakers on questions they either can't or...

Senate committee issues official subpoenas to Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey — The Verge

Thursday morning, the Senate Commerce committee voted unanimously to issue subpoenas to the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter, writes Russell Brandom. Here is the...

Twitter apologises for ‘racist’ image-cropping algorithm — The Guardian

Twitter has apologized for a “racist” image cropping algorithm, after users discovered the feature was automatically focusing on white faces, writes Alex Hern. Here is...