President Donald Trump has issued a blustering warning to use ‘vicious dogs’ and ‘ominous weapons’ against demonstrators after a crowd protesting the death of George Floyd attempted to storm the White House grounds on Friday night. ‘The professionally managed so-called “protesters” at the White House had little to do with the memory of George Floyd. They … Read more
Billie Eilish has been exercising her free speech rights regarding the death of George Floyd, the unarmed African-American man who died after a white police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee into his neck on May 25. And now the pop star, 18, is calling out President Donald Trump for his tweets … Read more
Joe Biden on Friday slammed President Donald Trump for his handling of George Floyd’s death after the black man died while in custody of white police officers. The former vice president revealed he has spoken with Floyd’s family and took issue with Trump’s tweets on the matter, saying ‘this is no time for incendiary tweets’ … Read more
Joe Biden on Friday slammed President Donald Trump for his handling of George Floyd’s death after the black man died while in custody of white police officers. The former vice president revealed he has spoken with Floyd’s family and took issue with Trump’s tweets on the matter, saying ‘this is no time for incendiary tweets’ … Read more
Star Wars actor John Boyega has shared with his Twitter followers that those who reported his remarks from earlier this week about the death of George Floyd have not had their complaints upheld. John, 28, triumphantly posted the response from Twitter, which said they ‘did not find any violations’ with his tweets and ‘will not … Read more
Twitter has fact-checked China after it flagged Donald Trump‘s tweets for accuracy and sparked fury from the US president. Exclamation point warnings marked, ‘Get the facts about COVID-19,’ were added to tweets from spokesman Lijian Zhao, who claimed: ‘It might be US army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan.’ The tweets that are more than … Read more
President Trump will sign some sort of ‘social media’-focused executive order on Thursday, White House officials said, amid a rift with Twitter after the company started fact-checking his tweets. Reporters traveling on board Air Force One Wednesday were told by press secretary Kayleigh McEnany that an executive order was coming as soon as Wednesday night, … Read more
Donald Trump demanded Wednesday that social media platforms ‘clean up your act’ as he warned his administration will begin to regulate and even shutter such websites after Twitter, for the first time ever, fact-checked his tweets. He lamented in the Twitter thread that conservatives are being silenced and disproportionately regulated on social media websites like … Read more
The head of Twitter’s fact-checking team has previously tweeted that the Trump administration are Nazis, compared adviser Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels and said fly over states are racist. Yoel Roth, whose official title at Twitter is head of Site Integrity, faced backlash on Wednesday after his history of anti-Trump tweets emerged less than 24 hours after the … Read more
No10 tweets reminder that Britons should ‘keep 6ft apart from people you don’t live with’… sparking explosion of memes, ridicule and fury online Government facing backlash after PM backed top aide for travelling in lockdown Today No10 reminded people to keep distance following last night’s briefing People responded by suggesting the rules do not apply … Read more