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Twitter said Monday that it has suspended 936 accounts it said originated from within state-backed operations in China designed to spread disinformation related to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. Facebook, meanwhile, said that based on its own investigation it removed several pages, groups and accounts for similar…

President Donald Trump lashed out this morning against his old nemesis, the “failing New York Times,” accusing it in his Sunday Twitter stream of planning a “Racism Witch Hunt” in its ongoing coverage. "The failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a…

Fresh off a major rally in New Hampshire, President Donald Trump started off his Saturday tweetstorm by focusing on a brewing confrontation in Portland, Oregon between his supporters and the masked radical Antifa agitators. Planned protests this weekend between left and right wing demonstrators could explode, as…

Is “Fredo” an ethnic slur? Was CNN’s defense of anchor Chris Cuomo sexist? Did Donald Trump Jr. just confess to being the Trump family’s Fredo? Everyone from the Trump boys to KISS’ Gene Simmons, Meghan McCain, Anthony Scaramucci, Tom Arnold and Alec Baldwin are weighing in on the viral video of Cuomo engaged in a…

Comedian and producer Whitney Cummings has no patience for the “foolish dorks” who tried to extort money from her over a topless photo that Cummings accidentally shared – then quickly deleted – on social media in April. Cummings beat the grifters today by retweeting the image to her 1.3 million followers. In a series…

President Donald Trump emerged from a rare day of Twitter silence late this afternoon, renewing his frequent war on three of his big MSNBC critics in “Little” Donny Deutsch, Joe Scarborough and “his very angry Psycho wife,” (aka Mika Brzezinski). Trump reminisced about his days on NBC’s The Apprentice, recalling how…

The sun rose in the east this morning, which means President Donald Trump’s fingers were busy tweeting. On the first full day of a 10-day vacation, he railed about an unflattering report in the “failing” New York Times, discussed his latest letter from BFF/pen pal/despot Kim Jong-un and said he plans to meet with the…

UPDATED with Twitter unlocking account: Twitter said Friday that it has unlocked the account of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign after locking it Wednesday for posting a video it deemed violated the platform’s abusive behavior policy. On Thursday, a GOP Senate fundraising arm the National Republican…

Pity the poor promotional gurus at the New York Times Company. Just as they were wrapping themselves around a kinder, gentler digital subscription pitch — keyed to the notion that reading The Times can feed civil conversations among those who disagree — a Twitter mob descended on a headline that wasn't sufficiently…

Frances Fisher is asking for Donald Trump's vote. Fisher, a progressive Democrat who's called Trump "the worst bully in the world," tweeted out to the president, tongue in cheek, asking him to vote for her Membership First slate in SAG-AFTRA's ongoing elections. "We have Republicans; we have Democrats; we have…

A weekend filled with tragedy was the focus of President Donald Trump’s early Twitter messages today. The President gave his condolences to the people of El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio regarding the mass shootings in their cities, attacks that left multiple people dead and many injured. The President promised updates…

The President had some jolly ranchers, but also some lemon sours in the early part of Saturday’s tweetstorm. A new deal that will open up more of the European market to beef exporters was touted by the Commander-in-Tweet via a tweet from Sen. John Hoeven.(R-ND). No longer will the continent have to ask, “Where’s the…