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The Twitter official responsible for the platform’s fact-checking policy has tweeted that members of the Trump administration are “Nazis,” among other false and inflammatory statements on the platform. Yoel Roth, whose official job title is “Head of Site Integrity,” explained the platform’s new policy in a May 11 blog post on “misleading information” on coronavirus. …

President Trump on Wednesday reached his worst approval rating in over two years on Rasmussen’s daily index, with just 42 percent of respondents approving of his performance while 57 percent disapproved. The fifteen point net disapproval reflects the bleakest picture for the president since December, 2017. Rasmussen, whose results tend to skew positively for the …

Twitter is working on implementing “changes” to “existing product features and policies” following calls to censor President Trump’s repeated airing of a conspiracy theory involving the death of a former aide to MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough, a company spokesperson told National Review. “We are deeply sorry about the pain these statements, and the attention they …

Twenty years later, Stan has a direct line. Rapper Eminem has released his cell number to legions of fans, who call themselves “Stans” after his 2000 hit single, inviting them to text 313-666-7440. The Real Slim Shady wrote, “text me, ill hit you back” in Instagram and Twitter posts, both of which quickly went viral. …

Actress Alyssa Milano was criticized Saturday on Twitter after sharing a picture of herself and her family wearing coronavirus face masks and encouraging others to do the same — but hers appeared to have holes in it, as it was crocheted. Milano posted a photo of herself in a car with her husband and two …

It’s a heaping portion of cowardice with a side of reflexive liberal cancel culture, courtesy of our most reliable provider: the New York Times. After their star food columnist was pitchforked online last week for criticizing model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen and reality TV organizer Marie Kondo, the paper — rather than stand by …

Adele’s former personal trainer has leapt to the defense of the recently slimmed-down star who has come under fire for betraying her plus-size fan base. On May 6 — her 32nd birthday — the “Rolling In The Deep” singer caused a stir by flaunting her drastically altered figure on Instagram in a post thanking healthcare …

After being forced to backtrack on plans to travel to Africa this year, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s work-from-anywhere philosophy is being vindicated by the coronavirus. The social network’s CEO on Tuesday emailed his staff to say that employees whose jobs permit it will be allowed to work remotely forever — even after the coronavirus pandemic …

Twitter’s new policy on labeling “potentially harmful and misleading content” about coronavirus will not apply to the World Health Organization’s January tweet that stated there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.” The social media platform announced Monday that it would be labeling and providing contexts to “some Tweets containing disputed or misleading information related …

Twitter will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19, the company said on Monday, as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics. Twitter’s new labels will provide links to more information in cases where the risk of harm from the …