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Twitter has again altered its “hacked materials” policy, reversing a decision to lock the New York Post out of its account over tweets promoting a controversial report about the business dealings of the Biden family.

US President Donald Trump’s official campaign account was banned from Twitter after it violated rules on “COVID-19 misinformation”.

Twitter has confirmed hackers made use of tools that were supposed to have only been available to its own staff to carry off Wednesday's hack attack.

Employees at Facebook are annoyed at CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s refusal to act against President Donald Trump, sharing their dissatisfaction with his decision online for all to see.

Twitter attached a disclaimer to a tweet by President Donald Trump on the unrest in Minneapolis on Friday, saying it broke its rules on "glorifying violence", hours after the US president signed an executive order targeting the social media giant’s legal protections.

He added, “There’s no precedent in American history for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction.”

For the first time ever, Twitter has tagged tweets by US President Donald Trump with a link to their ‘fact check,’ based on a collection of mainstream media reporting on the subject of mail-in ballots and voter fraud in the US.

Twitter has placed a fact-checking warning on a tweet issued by President Trump in which he claims without evidence that mail-in ballots are fraudulent.

Twitter's new policy comes as businesses across the nation are struggling to adapt to social distancing guidelines.

Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and payment app Square, has said he will donate $1bn (£810m) towards efforts to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

On Monday, Twitter employees rushed to defend their leader, firing off tweets with the hashtag #webackjack.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday the company would no longer accept political ads.

Tweaks to user experience help company to better-than-expected profitability of $76m

A federal appeals court ruled that Donald Trump cannot legally block users on Twitter based on their political differences with him, affirming a lower court decision.

Twitter said extreme cases – direct threats of violence or calls to commit violence against an individual – are unlikely to be considered in the public interest.

Private tweets sent by users of Twitter's Android app could have been exposed publicly for years.

Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has responded to criticism of his 10-day meditation retreat in Myanmar, saying: "I don't know enough and need to learn more."

Twitter banned far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his website InfoWars from its platform Thursday afternoon, a month after several of its Silicon Valley counterparts did so.

The move comes after other high profile tech companies like Apple, Facebook and YouTube have moved to remove Jones' content from their platforms.

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