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Digital Rights Advocates Warn Trump's FCC Nominee—Who Backs Plan to Censor the Internet—Is 'Even Worse Than Ajit Pai'

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) headquarters in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Rob Pegoraro/Flickr cc)

Calling Trump's Repeated Election Lies 'Dangerous' to Democracy, Watchdogs Urge Twitter to Suspend His Account

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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"Twitter has a duty to ensure that its platform is not used to attack the foundations of our democracy."

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Trump Roundly Ridiculed by Activists, Artists, and Others After Lying About Swing State Landslide

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

President Donald Trump was roundly ridiculed on Twitter Wednesday after making baseless claims of victory in several swing states. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Prominent Twitter users claimed everything from a full head of hair to "the...

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Jared Kushner Eviscerated as 'Face of White Privilege and Nepotism' After Mocking Racial Justice Protesters

Brett Wilkins, staff writer

Jared Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump at a 2015 New York gala. (Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump's son-in-law—some of whose wealth comes from being what...

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Progressives Warn Against Accepting—Let Alone Applauding—Twitter Ban of "Garbage" NY Post Story

Residents of Melbourne, Australia gather on March 22, 2019 to memorialize the 51 people killed by a right-wing extremist in a Christchurch, New Zealand mosque one week earlier. (Photo: Recep Sakar/Andalou/Getty Images)

Study Warns Radicalized Right-Wingers Uniting Online—Many Inspired by Trump—Threaten Australian Democracy

President Donald Trump's tweets have been slapped with a "misleading" warning—again. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/cc)

'Existential Threat to Our Democracy': Trump Openly Telegraphs Intent (Once Again) to Delegitimize 2020 Election Results

An employee at the Utah County Election office puts mail-in ballots into a container to register the vote in the midterm elections on November 6, 2018 in Provo, Utah. (Photo: George Frey/Getty Images)

'This Is a Flashing Red Light': Trump Triggers Alarm With Another Baseless Attack on Mail-In Voting

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks to an audience in 2018.

Employees Hold Virtual Walkout to Protest Facebook Inaction on Trump Posts 'Advocating Violence Against Black Demonstrators'

Trump Social Media Executive Order Denounced as Unlawful Ploy to 'Eviscerate Public Oversight of His Lies'

'String of Intentional Outright Lies': Bloomberg Campaign Deletes Tweets Containing Fake Quotes of Sanders Praising Despotism

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Study Suggests Twitter Bots Have 'Substantial Impact' on Spreading Climate Misinformation

President Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters as he prepared to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on January 19, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

"You're Not a Dictator": Lawmakers and Experts Inform Trump He Can't Declare War via Tweet

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While New Twitter Policy Will Ban Green Groups' Climate Ads, Looks Like ExxonMobil Can Still Pay to Promote Its Propaganda

Twitter's decision on Wednesday to ban political advertising was met with cautious praise.

'Whoa': Twitter to End Paid Political Advertising on Platform, CEO Says

Women Leaders Call On Candidates to Address the #MeTooVoter Ahead of Democratic Debate

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Amnesty International - USA

Violence and Incitement Trends Are Particularly Worrying Following the US Election

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Common Cause & National Lawyers’ Committee Call on Twitter to Suspend President Trump’s Twitter Account for Spreading Disinformation & Sowing Unrest

Amnesty International - USA

Twitter Still Failing Women Over Online Violence and Abuse

Free Press

Trump’s Executive Order Is a Blatant and Unconstitutional Attempt to Silence Critics and Fact Checkers

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Social Media Platforms Increase Transparency About Content Removal Requests, But Many Keep Users in the Dark When Their Speech Is Censored, EFF Report Shows

Amnesty International

Crowdsourced Twitter Study Reveals Shocking Scale of Online Abuse Against Women

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Erwin Chemerinsky

Trump's Authoritarian Executive Order Is an Assault on Free Speech—Not a Defense of It

Michael Winship

In the Face of Death and Disease, Who's Sorry Now? Not Donald Trump—Yet

Robert Reich

Should Facebook and Twitter Stop Trump’s Lies?

Jessica J. González

A New Year's Resolution for Big Tech: Step Up to Stop Hate

Juan Cole

Back to Jim Crow Under Trump: 'Lynch Her' Is Republicans' Big Idea to Deal With Rep. Ilhan Omar

Robert Reich

Massive Power, Dangerous Lies, and Why Corporations Like Facebook Must Be Broken Up

Tom Gallagher

A Modest Goal: #usoutofafghanistan

Scott Goodstein

Democratic Candidates Must Communicate Differently to Impress a New Generation of Voters

Krystal Ball

AOC Is the Trump-Era Hero We Need

Rachel Levinson-Waldman

How ICE and Other DHS Agencies Mine Social Media in the Name of National Security