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Someone's Blasting a School District Online. Now, an Unmasking?

Neb.'s Friend Public Schools wants to know who's running the criticism-filled Friend Bulldog account

(Newser) - A southeast Nebraska school district wants a court to help it learn who's behind a Twitter account that has targeted the district and superintendent. Friend Public Schools says the unknown person behind the Friend Bulldog account has made false, libelous, and defamatory statements accusing Superintendent David Kraus or the...

Fans Blast Demi Lovato After Tweet on ICE-Held Rapper

21 Savage may soon be deported; fans didn't like that pop singer joked about his UK citizenship

(Newser) - What does rapper 21 Savage being taken into immigration custody have to do with Demi Lovato suddenly deleting her Twitter account? Nothing directly, but people apparently didn't like the pop singer tweeting about the former's status, and the backlash seems to have led to the latter. Per People ...

Patton Oswalt Got Trolled on Twitter. His Troll Is Now 'Humbled'

Comedian directed fans to donate money to sick man's GoFundMe

(Newser) - A Twitter troll went after Patton Oswalt—and the comedian managed to turn it into one of the most uplifting stories of the week. It started Wednesday, when Oswalt made fun of President Trump on Twitter , which provoked snarky reactions from 64-year-old Michael Beatty, including saying he was happy Oswalt'...

Twitter Suspends Account Behind 'MAGA Kid' Controversy

Account said it was video of 'MAGA loser gleefully bothering' Native American

(Newser) - Controversy is still raging over Friday's encounter in Washington, DC, between a Native American man and a student in a Make America Great Again hat—and a move from Twitter suggests it may have deliberately been stirred up. The company has suspended an account that shared video of the...

Cardi B Warns 'Sheep' Tomi Lahren: 'I Will Dog Walk You'

Singer isn't having it with conservative commentator over the shutdown and border wall

(Newser) - Cardi B and Tomi Lahren got into an online smackdown over President Trump's border wall and the government shutdown. The 26-year-old singer and rapper caused quite a buzz last week with a 58-second rant about the partial shutdown, noting that "our country is in a hellhole right now,...

Burger King Trolls Trump Over 'Hamberders'

POTUS initially misspelled 'hamburgers' on Twitter

(Newser) - Burger King is needling President Trump for his tweet about ordering more than 1,000 "hamberders" for the Clemson University Tigers' visit to the White House after winning the college football championship. The spelling error was quickly corrected . But Burger King jumped in with a tweet of its own,...

There&#39;s a New Twitter Queen in DC
There's a New
Twitter Queen in DC 
Jan 13, 2019 9:42 AM CST

There's a New Twitter Queen in DC

Ocasio-Cortez has vaulted past top 5 media outlets combined, all other Democrats

(Newser) - Any Democrat with their sights set on the Oval Office in 2020 might ask a freshman congresswoman for a retweet. As Axios reports, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has vaulted past all other Democrats in terms of Twitter interactions—effectively "dominating the Democratic conversation." In the 30 days before Friday, the...

Japanese Billionaire&#39;s Tweet Now the Most Retweeted Ever
Easy to See Why Billionaire's
Tweet Is Now Most Retweeted
in case you missed it
Jan 12, 2019 3:00 PM CST

Easy to See Why Billionaire's Tweet Is Now Most Retweeted

Yusaku Maezawa promises some cash to 100 people

(Newser) - A Japanese billionaire has now claimed the honor of having penned the most retweeted tweet ever. But once you hear what he wrote, it's not that surprising. Yusaku Maezawa's Jan. 5 tweet offered to split 100 million yen (that's about $925,000) among 100 people, reports the...

iPhone Tweet Means Demotion for Workers at Rival

A big whoops for Huawei

(Newser) - Falling solidly under the "you had one job" umbrella this week is a story out of China. If you're responsible for updating Huawei Technologies' social media pages, highlighting a rival tech company probably isn't the best idea—which is exactly what two Huawei employees just discovered. Reuters...

Actor Taking Break From Twitter After Insults

Will Poulter appears to be responding to 'Bandersnatch' criticism

(Newser) - Online commentary has pushed yet another celebrity to take a break from social media. "In light of my recent experiences I am choosing to take a step back, of sorts, from Twitter," actor Will Poulter tweeted Wednesday. The move appeared to come in response to comments saying Poulter...

US Military Tweets, Deletes Odd New Year's Eve Message

US Strategic Command appeared to drop a bomb threat

(Newser) - US Strategic Command had an odd New Year's Eve greeting for the world, tweeting Monday, "#TimesSquare tradition rings in the #NewYear by dropping the big ball...if ever needed, we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger." Drop what, exactly? Apparently a bomb, as the tweet...

Aquarium Very Sorry for Fat-Shaming Sea Otter
Never Fat-Shame
a Sea Otter. Never.
Dec 23, 2018 10:19 AM CST

Never Fat-Shame a Sea Otter. Never.

Monterey Bay Aquarium has a 'learning moment' after trying to act like the cool kids on Twitter

(Newser) - Furthering the Internet truism that 140 characters is plenty of letters to trigger an avalanche of trouble, we present to you an unlikely example: The Monterey Bay Aquarium, accused of fat-shaming one of its own sea otters and just being painful in general. As KPIX reports, the aquarium, or maybe...

Study a 'Sobering Reminder of Twitter's Hellish Reality'

Especially for women, "Troll Patrol" finds

(Newser) - Twitter can be a tough place—especially for some women. That’s what Amnesty International’s crowdsourced study called Troll Patrol discovered. The project, a joint effort with software company Element AI, looked at tweets sent to 778 female journalists and politicians in the US and UK, per ABC , finding...

Bombarded by Disinformation, 'We're on Our Own'

Kara Swisher writes for the 'NYT' that tech companies haven't been terribly helpful in fighting bad actors

(Newser) - What's "dead clear": Propaganda pushers have been using platforms like Google, Facebook, and Twitter "exactly as they were designed to be used." What we're just now learning: that those companies were more or less useless on the front lines against disinformation and "fake news,...

Report Exposes Vast Scale of Russia's Pro-Trump Election Interference

'All of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party'

(Newser) - Russian agents reached a staggering number of Americans through social media during the 2016 election campaign, and sites like Facebook missed some obvious signs of what was happening, according to a report prepared for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The report, seen by the Washington Post, found that Russians at the...

Twitter CEO Getting Majorly Blasted Over Meditation Retreat

Jack Dorsey's Twitter thread about Myanmar is being called tone deaf

(Newser) - Jack Dorsey is under serious fire on his own platform thanks to some ill-advised tweets about his birthday present to himself. The Twitter CEO traveled to Myanmar to enjoy a 10-day silent meditation, and he shared all about it in what many are calling a tone deaf series of tweets....

Trump, 'Totally Cleared'? George Conway Reacts

Kellyanne Conway's husband fires off a missive

(Newser) - "Totally cleared"? That was President Trump's take on news about sentencing recommendations for his ex-attorney, Michael Cohen—but Kellyanne Conway's husband sees it his own way, reports the Huffington Post . To recap: "Totally clears the president. Thank you!" the president tweeted after federal prosecutors...

After Ultimatum, Kevin Hart Is Out as Oscar Host

He apologizes for homophobic tweets

(Newser) - The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ended up looking for a new host for the 91st Academy Awards less than 36 hours after naming Kevin Hart for the slot. The comedian, who had faced a major backlash over homophobic tweets from 2011 and earlier, announced Thursday night that...

Celeb Most Tweeted About in US Isn't American

K-Pop band BTS nabs most mentions in 2018

(Newser) - Twitter data once again shows that South Korean boy band BTS is indeed a "global phenomenon," per Billboard . Year-end stats released by the site identify the K-Pop group as the most tweeted about celeb in the US for a second year in a row. One individual member also...

Giuliani Misses a Space on Twitter and Things Spiral
Giuliani Misses a Space
on Twitter and Things Spiral
the rundown
Dec 5, 2018 8:29 AM CST

Giuliani Misses a Space on Twitter and Things Spiral

'G-20.In' looked like a hyperlink to Twitter

(Newser) - It's a question that fervently divides us: one space after a period or two ? For Rudy Giuliani, the big issue is that there were zero. What started as a Friday typo has spiraled into a prank and then accusations of a conspiracy. Here's the timeline:
  • On Friday,
...

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