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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
In August 2020, Jones used Twitter to attack Jon Taylor, a PhD candidate at Florida Atlantic University who had created a COVID-19 tracker with his advisor, Rebel A. Cole, to correct for a potentially misleading statistic and present the data in a way more easily understood by the public.
Protester wearing a QAnon t-shirt at a Proud Boys march for Trump in December 2020. In July 2020, Business Insider reported that according to Media Matters for America, Trump's reelection campaign relied on a network of QAnon-related accounts to spread disinformation and propaganda on social media, especially Twitter. An analysis of 380,000 ...
Twitter, which was acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk last October, was the only exception. All major social media platforms do poorly at protecting LGBTQ+ users from hate speech and harassment ...
Facebook and Twitter have made efforts in recent weeks to provide fact-check labels and notices to posts supporting debunked or refuted stories and posts to help stem the tide of such content on ...
The attacks feel personal for South Florida and other areas of the country with large Jewish populations who contribute to every facet of our communities and whose traditions have made our melting ...
On May 27, 2020, after 11 a.m., [2] a 38-year-old African-American [3] [4] transgender man, Tony McDade, [5] [6] [4] [7] was fatally shot in the Leon Arms apartment complex by an officer of the Tallahassee Police Department, [8] following the fatal stabbing of Malik Jackson on nearby Saxon Street.