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Bank Of America Analyst Gets 10-Year Jail In Saudi Arabia For Old Tweet: Entire Case Explained
Ahmed al-Doush, 41, received the harsh penalty after Saudi authorities deemed a now-deleted post from his 37-follower Twitter account a national security threat.
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Elon Musk is Changing What You See on Your Twitter Feed: All You Need to Know
Elon Musk has brought several changes to Twitter, weeks after he took over the microblogging platform. The company's new CEO has dissolved the Trust and Safety Council, which was made up of dozens of independent civil, human rights and other organisations. He has also given selected journalists access to some of the company's internal communication...
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Elon Musk Dissolves Twitter's Trust and Safety Advisory Group Over Email
Elon Musk on Monday dissolved Twitter's Trust and Safety Council via email. The advisory group comprised around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organisations that provided expertise and guidance on how Twitter could better combat hate, harassment and other harms but didn’t have any decision-making authority and didn’t review speci...
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Gigi Hadid Deletes Twitter Account After Elon Musk Takeover, Calls It a Place of 'Hate'
Gigi Hadid has deleted her Twitter account on the microblogging platform, days after Elon Musk completed his takeover deal and fired half of the company's workforce. The American supermodel took to Instagram to announce, via a story, that she had deleted her account amid the mass layoffs, which included the human rights team.
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Elon Musk Urged by UN to Ensure Human Rights Are Central to Management of Twitter
Elon Musk was urged by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Saturday, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter". The message from Türk was issued after reports that Musk had fired the entire team working on human rights on the microblogging platform. In his letter, Türk urged Twitter to stand up for the r...
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UN Urges Elon Musk To Ensure Twitter Safeguards Human Rights
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter Inc, urging him to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter".
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Elon Musk Says Laid Off Employees Were Offered 3 Months of Severance
Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday. The company said there were smaller in the team responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation. Teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were laid off, as confirmed by tweets. However, Elon Musk said he had no choice as “the company is ...
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Fake Twitter Accounts Found Spreading Chinese Propaganda: Report
US-based intelligence company Nisos says it uncovered more than 600 fake Twitter accounts spreading a positive narrative of China's far-western Xinjiang region, as Beijing was being accused of human rights abuses and locking up hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities there.
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Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover a Concern for Human Rights Groups
Human rights groups raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that its takeover by Elon Musk would give the billionaire. Musk has been called a 'free speech absolutist' and has been critical of Twitter's policies of moderating content on the platform.
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Human Rights Groups Raise Hate Speech Concerns After Elon Musk's Twitter Deal
Human rights groups raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that its takeover by Elon Musk would give the billionaire after the self-described "free speech absolutist" clinched a deal to take the social media platform private.
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Facebook, Other Tech Giants to Target Attacker Manifestos, Far-Right Militias in GIFCT Database
A counterterrorism organisation formed by some of the biggest US tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias.
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"Misplaced, Exaggerated": India On UN Special Branch's Criticism Of New IT Rules
Citing its "democratic credentials", India today defended its new IT rules, which had recently come in for criticism from a special branch of the UN Human Rights Council. The rules empower social media users, India's Permanent Mission to the UN said.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Responds to Critics of Myanmar Tweets, Says He's 'Aware of Atrocities'
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday said he was "aware of the human rights atrocities and suffering in Myanmar,"
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"Extremely Irresponsible": Twitter CEO Promotes Myanmar, Faces Criticism
Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey is facing criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country.
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Shujaat Bukhari Defended Journalism, Human Rights In Last Twitter Posts
Hours before he fell to the bullets of unidentified gunmen, Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari had vigorously defended his work on Twitter when some Delhi-based journalists accused him of doing "biased" reportage on Kashmir, and had posted the UN report on alleged human rights violations in the valley.
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Bank Of America Analyst Gets 10-Year Jail In Saudi Arabia For Old Tweet: Entire Case Explained
Ahmed al-Doush, 41, received the harsh penalty after Saudi authorities deemed a now-deleted post from his 37-follower Twitter account a national security threat.
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Elon Musk is Changing What You See on Your Twitter Feed: All You Need to Know
Elon Musk has brought several changes to Twitter, weeks after he took over the microblogging platform. The company's new CEO has dissolved the Trust and Safety Council, which was made up of dozens of independent civil, human rights and other organisations. He has also given selected journalists access to some of the company's internal communication...
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Elon Musk Dissolves Twitter's Trust and Safety Advisory Group Over Email
Elon Musk on Monday dissolved Twitter's Trust and Safety Council via email. The advisory group comprised around 100 independent civil, human rights and other organisations that provided expertise and guidance on how Twitter could better combat hate, harassment and other harms but didn’t have any decision-making authority and didn’t review speci...
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Gigi Hadid Deletes Twitter Account After Elon Musk Takeover, Calls It a Place of 'Hate'
Gigi Hadid has deleted her Twitter account on the microblogging platform, days after Elon Musk completed his takeover deal and fired half of the company's workforce. The American supermodel took to Instagram to announce, via a story, that she had deleted her account amid the mass layoffs, which included the human rights team.
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Elon Musk Urged by UN to Ensure Human Rights Are Central to Management of Twitter
Elon Musk was urged by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk on Saturday, to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter". The message from Türk was issued after reports that Musk had fired the entire team working on human rights on the microblogging platform. In his letter, Türk urged Twitter to stand up for the r...
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UN Urges Elon Musk To Ensure Twitter Safeguards Human Rights
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter Inc, urging him to "ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter".
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Elon Musk Says Laid Off Employees Were Offered 3 Months of Severance
Twitter laid off half its workforce on Friday. The company said there were smaller in the team responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation. Teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were laid off, as confirmed by tweets. However, Elon Musk said he had no choice as “the company is ...
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Fake Twitter Accounts Found Spreading Chinese Propaganda: Report
US-based intelligence company Nisos says it uncovered more than 600 fake Twitter accounts spreading a positive narrative of China's far-western Xinjiang region, as Beijing was being accused of human rights abuses and locking up hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities there.
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Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover a Concern for Human Rights Groups
Human rights groups raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that its takeover by Elon Musk would give the billionaire. Musk has been called a 'free speech absolutist' and has been critical of Twitter's policies of moderating content on the platform.
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Human Rights Groups Raise Hate Speech Concerns After Elon Musk's Twitter Deal
Human rights groups raised concerns about hate speech on Twitter and the power that its takeover by Elon Musk would give the billionaire after the self-described "free speech absolutist" clinched a deal to take the social media platform private.
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Facebook, Other Tech Giants to Target Attacker Manifestos, Far-Right Militias in GIFCT Database
A counterterrorism organisation formed by some of the biggest US tech companies including Facebook and Microsoft is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias.
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"Misplaced, Exaggerated": India On UN Special Branch's Criticism Of New IT Rules
Citing its "democratic credentials", India today defended its new IT rules, which had recently come in for criticism from a special branch of the UN Human Rights Council. The rules empower social media users, India's Permanent Mission to the UN said.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Responds to Critics of Myanmar Tweets, Says He's 'Aware of Atrocities'
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday said he was "aware of the human rights atrocities and suffering in Myanmar,"
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"Extremely Irresponsible": Twitter CEO Promotes Myanmar, Faces Criticism
Twitter's chief executive Jack Dorsey is facing criticism for promoting Myanmar as a tourist destination despite widespread allegations of human rights abuses in the country.
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Shujaat Bukhari Defended Journalism, Human Rights In Last Twitter Posts
Hours before he fell to the bullets of unidentified gunmen, Rising Kashmir editor Shujaat Bukhari had vigorously defended his work on Twitter when some Delhi-based journalists accused him of doing "biased" reportage on Kashmir, and had posted the UN report on alleged human rights violations in the valley.
