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Alec Baldwin has flown the Twitter coop, announcing on Monday that he will leave the social media platform “for now.” “Twitter is like a party where everyone is screaming. Not much of a party,” he Tweeted. “Goodbye for now.” Baldwin’s departure from Twitter comes weeks after wife Hilaria Baldwin’s came under fire…

Twitter has silenced Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter… for now. The social media platform temporarily suspended the account of Greene after she violated new rules that went into effect following the events at the Capitol. The Georgia congresswoman has a history of bolstering QAnon conspiracy theories. Those came…

Twitter outlined how it plans to transfer institutional accounts to Joe Biden’s administration, confirming that they will not automatically retain followers from the previous administration. The platform also said that a new account, @secondgentleman, will be launched to be used by Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said today in a tweetstorm that his company is exploring the development of a decentralized standard for social media. He revealed the initiative, dubbed @bluesky, in a long thread that attempted to explain Twitter’s recent and controversial deplatforming of President Donald Trump and other…

Amazon has called a lawsuit by Parler "meritless" and the facts "unequivocal" in a case that pits the conservative social media platform against the giant web services provider that declined to support it due to incitement to violence. In a court filing that echoes and expands a statement by Amazon on Monday…

UPDATED with closing prices: Shares of Twitter fell more than 10% in early trading after the social media platform banned President Donald Trump permanently Friday for risk of inciting violence, but had regained some ground by late morning as heat around Internet regulation ratcheted up. The stock closed at $48.97…

UPDATE, 5:31 PM PT: President Donald Trump posted a message on the official government Twitter account @POTUS, blasting the platform for banning @realdonaldtrump and vowing, “We will not be silenced!” Trump also said that they are “negotiating with “various other sites,” and even looking at the possibilities of…

UPDATED, Thursday 5:00 PM: Popular streaming platform Twitch followed Facebook and Twitter’s steps in restricting President Donald Trump’s access in light of the violent events at the U.S. Capitol Building on Wednesday. The Amazon-owned platform disabled the President’s Twitch channel as a “necessary step to protect…

Keith Poole, deputy editor-in-chief of News Corp.'s UK tabloid The Sun, has been named editor-in-chief of the New York Post Group. He starts in early March in what is a new position as former editor and senior advisor Col Allan retires. The Post’s editors-in-chief for print and digital, Stephen Lynch and Michelle…

Twitter is acquiring the team behind Breaker, a podcast app with community and social elements launched in 2016. The news comes a month after the social media giant announced testing of an audio-enabled chat rooms feature, called Spaces. In a blog post, Breaker CEO Erik Berlin said it will shut down on Jan. 15 "to…

Heat on U.S. social media platforms is now blowing from Russia whose lower house of parliament inked a series of bills this week cracking down on sites that Moscow says discriminate against its media. Twitter labels some Russian media 'state-affiliated,' for instance, which Moscow objects to, according to news…

The owner of a Mac repair shop filed a $500 million libel lawsuit against Twitter on Monday, claiming that the platform defamed him when it blocked the New York Post‘s expose on Hunter Biden. John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the shop, was at the center of the pre-election New York Post story that claimed to have…