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  • Donald Trump To Return on Facebook and Instagram? Meta to Announce Decision Soon, Says Report

    Donald Trump To Return on Facebook and Instagram? Meta to Announce Decision Soon, Says Report

    San Francisco, January 2: Meta is reportedly preparing to announce whether it will allow former US President Donald Trump to return to Facebook and Instagram. The company had previously said it will decide whether to allow the former president to return by January 7. However, that decision is now expected to be announced later in the month, reports the Financial Times, citing sources.

    The company has established a working group to focus on the matter that will include staff from the public policy and communications teams, as well as the content policy team and security and key information, chaired by Monica Bickert, head of global policy management at Facebook, and the safety and integrity teams led by the Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen, said the report. Trump Rings in 2023 Facing Headwinds in His White House Run.

    This comes after Twitter Boss Elon Musk revoked a permanent ban on Trump in November last year on the social media platform. In 2021, Facebook (now Meta) suspended Trump’s accounts for two years, the maximum penalty under a newly revealed set of rules for suspending public figures, from its former indefinite ban set on January 7. Democrat Kathy Hochul Sworn in as Elected New York Governor.

    “We are today announcing new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases such as this, and we are confirming the time-bound penalty consistent with those protocols which we are applying to Mr Trump’s accounts… We believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols,” Nick Clegg, vice president of global affairs at Facebook, said in an announcement.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jan 02, 2023 03:22 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Facebook User Data Case: Meta To Pay 5 Million To Settle Alleged Data Breach of Over 87 Million People During Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign

    Facebook User Data Case: Meta To Pay $725 Million To Settle Alleged Data Breach of Over 87 Million People During Donald Trump’s Presidential Campaign

    San Francisco, Dec 24: Facebook’s corporate parent has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the world’s largest social media platform allowed millions of its users’ personal information to be fed to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign in 2016.

    Terms of the settlement reached by Meta Platforms, the holding company for Facebook and Instagram, were disclosed in court documents filed late Thursday. It will still need to be approved by a judge in a San Francisco federal court hearing set for March. COVID-19 Outbreak in China: Country Estimates Coronavirus Surge Infecting 37 Million People A Day.

    The case sprang from 2018 revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a firm with ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon, had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million users of the platform. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign that culminated in Trump’s election as the 45th president.

    Uproar over the revelations led to a contrite Zuckerberg being grilled by U.S. lawmakers during a high-profile congressional hearing and spurred calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts. Even though Facebook’s growth has stalled as more people connect and entertain themselves on rival services such as TikTok, the social network still boasts about 2 billion users worldwide, including nearly 200 million in the U.S. and Canada. Paris Shooting: Three Killed, 3 Injured as Man Opens Fire, Suspect Arrested; Possible Racist Motive Under Investigation.

    The lawsuit, which had been seeking to be certified as a class action representing Facebook users, had asserted the privacy breach proved Facebook is a “data broker and surveillance firm,” as well as a social network.

    The two sides reached a temporary settlement agreement in August, just a few weeks before a Sept. 20 deadline for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his long-time chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, to submit to depositions.

    The company based in Menlo Park, California, said in statement Friday it pursued a settlement because it was in the best interest of its community and shareholders.

    “Over the last three years we revamped our approach to privacy and implemented a comprehensive privacy program,” said spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce. “We look forward to continuing to build services people love and trust with privacy at the forefront.”

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  • Twitter Files: Elon Musk Reveales Top Executives Interfered With US Presidential Election Before Banning Donald Trump

    Twitter Files: Elon Musk Reveales Top Executives Interfered With US Presidential Election Before Banning Donald Trump

    San Francisco, December 10: Elon Musk on Saturday revealed the third season of ‘Twitter Files,’ which claimed that top Twitter executives suppressed and censored former US President Donald Trump in the days before the 2020 election, finally deplatforming him on January 8, 2021 — two days after the storming of the Capitol Hill that left five dead.

    Independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi shared the ‘Twitter Files Part 3’, saying there were erosion of standards within the company in months before January 6, “decisions by high-ranking executives to violate their own policies, and more, against the backdrop of ongoing, documented interaction with federal agencies”. Twitter Files Part 3: Elon Musk Reveals What Led To Removal of Donald Trump From Microblogging Site After January 6 US Capitol Riot.

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    Musk replied to him, saying “election interference by social media companies obviously undermines the public’s faith in democracy and is wrong”. “Unequivocally true. The evidence is clear and voluminous,” he added. According to Taibbi, Twitter executives removed Trump in part over what one executive called the “context surrounding”: actions by Trump and supporters “over the course of the election and frankly last 4+ years”.

    “The bulk of the internal debate leading to Trump’s ban took place in those three January days (January 6-8). However, the intellectual framework was laid in the months preceding the Capitol riots,” he mentioned in his Twitter thread. Twitter Files: ‘Just Release Everything and Let People Judge’, Says Jack Dorsey; Elon Musk Hints at Episode 2 Coming Soon.

    Taibbi said that as the election approached, “senior executives — perhaps under pressure from federal agencies, with whom they met more as time progressed — increasingly struggled with rules, and began to speak of ‘vios’ as pretexts to do what they’d likely have done anyway”. The reports, said the Twitter Files, are based on searches for docs linked to prominent executives, whose names are already public.

    “They include Roth, former trust and policy chief Vijaya Gadde, and recently plank-walked Deputy General Counsel (and former top FBI lawyer) Jim Baker,” claimed Taibbi. The latest Twitter Files claimed that Twitter executives “were also clearly liaising with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies about moderation of election-related content”.

    As soon as “they finished banning Trump”, Twitter executives started processing new power. “They prepared to ban future presidents and White Houses — perhaps even Joe Biden. The anew administration, says one exec, ill not be suspended by Twitter unless absolutely necessary,” he said in a Twitter thread. Musk has reinstated Trump on Twitter. However, he has not posted any tweets yet.

    (The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Dec 10, 2022 12:16 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).

  • Twitter Files Part 3: Elon Musk Reveals What Led To Removal of Donald Trump From Microblogging Site After January 6 US Capitol Riot

    Twitter Files Part 3: Elon Musk Reveals What Led To Removal of Donald Trump From Microblogging Site After January 6 US Capitol Riot

    Twitter’s new boss Elon Musk has now revealed part 3 of Twitter Files. Musk has said that top Twitter executives removed then-president Donald Trump from their social media platform following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol and went on to have weekly meetings with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Human Services, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, about what tweets to censor. Twitter Files: ‘Just Release Everything and Let People Judge’, Says Jack Dorsey; Elon Musk Hints at Episode 2 Coming Soon

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  • Elon Musk Condemns Donald Trump, Says ‘Constitution Is Greater Than Any President’

    Elon Musk Condemns Donald Trump, Says ‘Constitution Is Greater Than Any President’

    Washington, Dec 5: For a change, Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Monday sided with the White House in condemning former US president Donald Trump for his call to terminate parts of the US Constitution after the release of “Twitter Files”.

    Trump made the statement on his Trust Social app in response to the “Twitter Files” that showed the Joe Biden team was in touch with the company in suppressing Hunter Biden’s laptop story in 2020. Elon Musk Advises Joe Biden To Just Buy a Tesla As US President Plans To Build 5 Lakh Electric Vehicle Charging Stations.

    Trump said “a Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Our great ‘Founder’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”

    The White House asked the people to “universally condemn” Trump for arguing that parts of the US Constitution should be terminated.

    Musk posted: “The Constitution is greater than any President. End of story.”

    Elon Musk says the constitution is greater than any president:

    Trump also posted last week that “with the revelation of MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION?”

    The White House said in a statement that the American Constitution is a sacrosanct document “that for over 200 years has guaranteed that freedom and the rule of law prevail in our great country”.

    “The Constitution brings the American people together — regardless of party — and elected leaders swear to uphold it,” White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement. Elon Musk Responds To Kanye West’s ‘Half Chinese’ Remark, Says, ‘I Take That As A Compliment!’

    “It’s the ultimate monument to all of the Americans who have given their lives to defeat self-serving despots that abused their power and trampled on fundamental rights. Attacking the Constitution and all it stands for is anathema to the soul of our nation, and should be universally condemned. You cannot only love America when you win,” Bates added.

    Musk last month reinstated Trump on Twitter, after he was banned on the platform in the wake of the Capitol Hill attack in 2021.

    Twitter CEO last week released internal ‘Twitter Files’, via posting a link to the account of independent journalist and author Matt Taibbi, that revealed how the micro-blogging platform took orders from the Biden’s team to suppress the censorship of his son Hunter Biden’s laptop story, published by the New York Post during the 2020 US presidential elections.

  • Donald Trump’s IQ Is 156? Here’s a Fact Check of Viral Ranking Chart Claiming Intelligence Quotients of Former US Presidents

    Donald Trump’s IQ Is 156? Here’s a Fact Check of Viral Ranking Chart Claiming Intelligence Quotients of Former US Presidents

    According to reports, a viral chart ranking claiming the intelligence quotients of former U.S. presidents is going viral on social media. Reportedly the chart ranking of former US Presidents is based on a real study. However, the chart ranking also claimed that former US president Donald Trump has an IQ of 156. However, it must be noted that the IQ of Trump is not accurate. Reports suggest that the ranking is based on incomplete and inaccurate information. Donald Trump Faulted for Dinner With White Nationalist Nick Fuentes, Rapper Ye Aka Kanye West.

    Donald Trump Has an IQ of 156

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  • US Presidential Elections 2024: Elon Musk Says He Will Back Donald Trump Rival Ron DeSantis if He Runs for President

    US Presidential Elections 2024: Elon Musk Says He Will Back Donald Trump Rival Ron DeSantis if He Runs for President

    Washington, November 26: Twitter’s new owner, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, says he will support Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis if he decides to run for president in the 2024 US election.

    “Would you support Ron DeSantis in 2024, Elon?” a Twitter user asked on Friday, with Musk replying “Yes.”

    Former US President Donald Trump announced his latest presidential bid last week after the Republican Party failed to gain control of the Senate and an anticipated broad wave of support for the GOP never materialized in the House midterms. Elon Musk Hints at Producing ‘Alternative’ Smartphones; Draws Mixed Reactions From Twitteratis.

    Earlier this month, Musk reinstated Trump’s account, saying said Twitter’s decision to ban the former US President from the platform was a grave mistake that undermined public trust for half of the United States. 

    Trump’s Twitter account was banned after the US Capitol’s January 6, 2021 events. Earlier this month, Twitter unblocked Trump’s account after the majority of participants in a survey conducted by Musk voted in favor of the measure. However, the former president has yet to tweet following the reinstatement of his account.

    “I’m fine with Trump not tweeting. The important thing is that Twitter correct a grave mistake in banning his account, despite no violation of the law or terms of service. Deplatforming a sitting President undermined public trust in Twitter for half of America,” Musk tweeted on Friday. Notably, in May, Musk tweeted that he had voted Democrat in the past, but “they have become the party of division and hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.” Elon Musk Fine With Donald Trump Not Tweeting After Twitter Reinstated His Once-Banned Account, Says ‘Reluctantly Voted For Joe Biden’.

    “To independent-minded voters: Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend voting for a Republican Congress, given that the Presidency is Democratic,” Musk tweeted. “Hardcore Democrats or Republicans never vote for the other side, so independent voters are the ones who actually decide who’s in charge!” he further added. Earlier, Musk vowed to vote Republican in May earlier this year. Elon Musk’s endorsement for Republicans came after he took over Twitter and began making massive changes to the micro-blogging platform.

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