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Ricky Gervais's cat has had its Twitter account suspended

The award winning British celebrity Ricky Gervais's beloved cat, Pickles, has somehow also ran afoul of Twitter's guidelines and managed to get his account suspended.

James Anthony / Jan 13, 2021

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Twitter conducts mass deletion of 70,000 allegedly QAnon-associated accounts

Twitter spokespeople mentioned that on Monday it had removed a further 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon movement, as the company continues to crack down.

James Anthony / Jan 12, 2021

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Angela Merkel SLAMS Twitter's Trump ban

Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, called Twitter's decision to ban President Donald Trump from it's platform, "problematic".

James Anthony / Jan 11, 2021

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Elon Musk's Starlink internet service now shipping in the UK

UK regulators have now approved the new Starlink satellite internet service from Elon Musk, and beta kits have started to ship out.

James Anthony / Jan 11, 2021

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Social media platforms could face fines in Poland for censoring free speech

In December, the Polish government announced an initiative that may compel social media companies to uphold free speech or recieve fines of roughly two million dollars, if they remove content or block an account that does not break the law in Poland.

Ian Miles Cheong / Jan 11, 2021

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Red Scare deletes Twitter account, "pre-emptively self-ejecting"

The Red Scare Podcast is the latest in a long list of accounts to get booted from Twitter in what is being described as a social media purge.

James Anthony / Jan 10, 2021

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Mozilla, developers of Firefox: 'We need more than deplatforming'

Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's CEO, wrote on Friday on the company's official blog that they plan to go beyond deplatforming in combating what they consider "harmful speech".

James Anthony / Jan 9, 2021

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England imposes harsher lockdown restrictions

The announcement follows a similar proclamation by Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has imposed a similarly strict lockdown in Scotland.

Noah David Alter / Jan 4, 2021

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Trump administration brokers deal to end Saudi embargo of Qatar

A formal agreement is expected to be signed on Tuesday, with the Gulf states lifting their embargo against Qatar and Qatar ending their legal actions against their governments.

Noah David Alter / Jan 4, 2021

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Slack down on first workday of 2021

Slack, the online workspace app, was having technical issues on Monday, the first working day of the New Year, which appeared to affect most users.

James Anthony / Jan 4, 2021

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Scotland to legally require citizens to stay home

"The government will be doing everything we can to vaccinate people as quickly as possible," she continued.

Noah David Alter / Jan 4, 2021

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Julian Assange's extradition to the US blocked by UK judge

Assange is facing charges in the United States of violating the Espionage Act and conspiring to hack government computers.

Noah David Alter / Jan 4, 2021

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China approves first COVID vaccine produced by state controlled company

Sinopharm, a state-controlled company, said that a vaccine developed by its Beijing Institute of Biological Products is 79.3 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 based on preliminary results.

Ari Hoffman / Jan 2, 2021

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British ICU doctor says violators of coronavirus rules 'have blood on their hands'

"They are spreading this virus. Other people will spread it and people will die. They won’t know they have killed people but they have."

Noah David Alter / Dec 31, 2020

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BLM activist known as 'Black Panther of Oxford' demands a blacklist of racists

Sasha Johnson proposed the idea, saying that the blacklist would be comparable to the sex offender registry.

Noah David Alter / Dec 31, 2020

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