Russian court fines Twitter on charges of failing to delete content
A Russian court fined Twitter a total of 8.9 million roubles ($116,800) on Friday over accusations that the service had failed to delete banned content....
Elam suspended from Twitter
Twitter on Thursday suspended the account of the Cypriot nationalist party Elam, with a pro-migrant NGO welcoming the news. The party’s account – @elamcy2008 –...
Russia will block Twitter in one month unless it deletes banned content
Russia will block Twitter in one month unless the U.S. social media giant complies with a demand to remove banned content, Russian news agencies cited...
Russia sues tech giants for ‘enabling’ illegal protests
Russian authorities are suing five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to take part in illegal protests, the Interfax news...
Parody, full stop?
The president may have drawn a line under the minister of justice and the Twitter incident but legally it’s far from over By Achilleas Demetriades...
Flawed search warrant was used on suspected owner of Yiolitis parody account
The supreme court on Friday cancelled a police search warrant used to enter the home of a Larnaca woman suspected of being the administrator of...
Twitter locks account of China’s U.S. embassy over its defence of Xinjiang policy
Twitter has locked the account of China’s U.S. embassy for a tweet that defended China’s policy towards Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, which the U.S. social...
YouTube next to penalise Trump for inciting violence
Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump’s channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week’s assault on the...
Twitter deletes Trump account and tweets on @POTUS, other platforms ban Parler
Twitter Inc on Friday deleted new tweets posted by U.S. President Donald Trump on official government account @POTUS and suspended the account of his presidential campaign,...
Akel says it’s not letting go of Yiolitis Twitter storm
Main opposition Akel sought to keep up pressure on the government on Monday over an apparently wrong police raid at a private citizen’s home after...
Justice minister under fire for reporting Twitter parody account to police (updated)
Justice Minister Emily Yiolitis came under fire on Tuesday after she reported a parody account of her on Twitter, prompting police to secure a search...
Facebook, Twitter face British fines if fail on harmful content
Facebook, Twitter and Chinese-owned TikTok face fines of up to 10% of turnover if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content...
Twitter unveils new feature
Earlier this week, social media network Twitter announced that it would be unrolling a new feature called Fleets. Fleets, a portmanteau of the words ‘tweet’...
Social media abuse drives girls off Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, with nearly 60% experiencing harassment, a global study showed on...
Twitter says about 130 accounts were targeted in cyber attack this week
Twitter Inc said late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week, an incident in which profiles of many...
Twitter hacking spree alarms experts concerned about the platform’s security
The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts, is drawing questions about the platform’s...
Twitter silences some top accounts after internal systems hacked
Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Kim Kardashian,...
Trump move could scrap or weaken law that protects social media companies
President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in...
Twitter apologises for flagging Chinese ambassador’s account as spam
The Twitter account of the Chinese ambassador in Nicosia was reinstated on Thursday after being suspended for two days because it was flagged as spam...
Akinci warns of fake Twitter account in his name
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci announced Wednesday that false accounts have been opened on social media using his name. In a post on his Twitter...