Twexit updates

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday was locked out of her personal Twitter account for sharing The Post’s bombshell cover story on Hunter Biden’s alleged hard drive and an email linking Joe Biden to his son’s job at a Ukrainian energy company.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced Tuesday that Twitter would pay $100,000 to Washington's Public Disclosure Transparency Account after violating state campaign finance disclosure laws.

Parler, the people-driven free speech platform, today released a statement from Strategic Investor and COO Jeffrey Wernick condemning Facebook and Twitter for the tech giants’ role in driving global use of lockdowns to control the spread of Covid-19.

Twitter locked the account of Lauren Witzke, the Republican party candidate in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race, over a tweet highlighting the impact of mass migration into Europe.

Following in the footsteps of Facebook, which last month announced plans to launch its long-promised "oversight board" before Nov. 3, Twitter has announced that it's planning a raft of measures, including making it more difficult for tweets to go viral ahead of the vote, to ensure that social media doesn't contribute to any election day violence.

Social-media company to make sweeping changes to how posts are shared including making it harder for certain content to go viral

More electioneering by Twitter– Twitter is the latest tech giant caught playing defense for Joe Biden and Kamala and censoring President Trump.

Twitter locked the account of former acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell after he shared an image of ballots sent to him by a friend living in California, who says they were addressed to his parents — who he claims have been dead for ten years.

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News Allum Bokhari joins Host Ben Domenech to discuss big tech’s role in censorship and freedom of speech online, repealing Section 230, and how companies like  Google, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube will attempt to have an effect on the election.

Sen. Ted Cuz (R-TX), author of One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History, described technology companies’ political censorship as today’s greatest threat to free speech and democracy, offering his comments in an interview on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Earlier this week, ProMarket published a piece by Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf under the headline There is a Direct Line from Milton Friedman to Donald Trump’s Assault on Democracy. After the piece went live, we tried to share it widely on Twitter by promoting one of our tweets.

In 2018 Google helped the Chinese Communists develop a social credit scoring system. The scoring system, first announced in 2014, rates China’s one billion citizens based on their behavior and associations.

Twitter has removed a video shared by the Trump campaign, which superimposed President Trump’s head on the body of a 49ers player as he jumped over an opposing player who was depicted as the coronavirus.

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The House of Commons Twitter account has been banned from tweeting the results of votes after Tory MPs complained it was breaking impartiality rules when one tweet went viral, the Guardian has learned.