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A year later, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is still learning a hard lesson about basic social media safety. After failing last year to take the elementary step of tightening her privacy settings on Facebook, people are again tagging Greene in a variety of derogatory, misogynistic — and even pornographic — images that appear in the “tagged photos” section of her Facebook page. A simple settings change by Greene’s campaign committee, which manages the page, could stop this trolling. Instead, Greene’s blue check-verified Facebook page, with its 476,000 followers, has become a veritable bull…

A year later, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is still learning a hard lesson about basic social media safety. After failing last year to take the elementary step of tightening her privacy settings on Facebook, people are again tagging Greene in a variety of derogatory, misogynistic — and even pornographic — images that appear in the “tagged photos” section of her Facebook page. A simple settings change by Greene’s campaign committee, which manages the page, could stop this trolling. Instead, Greene’s blue check-verified Facebook page, with its 476,000 followers, has become a veritable bull…

Special counsel Jack Smith likely seized a broad amount of information related to former Donald Trump’s Twitter account. A redacted search warrant unsealed this week showed the large swath of data Smith’s team ordered Twitter to hand over that could be related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The existence of the search warrant was first revealed earlier this year after media organizations sued. The special counsel’s office demanded identity information and a list of devices Trump used to log in to the service. POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office? ALSO READ: Here’s why tax…

A federal appeals court just heard Trump’s argument that he has a constitutional right to be on Twitter — and it didn’t appear to go well, according to Politico. “A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard Trump’s lawyer contend that Twitter, now known as X, acted at the behest of members of Congress and other U.S. government officials when it deplatformed Trump in January 2021, shortly after thousands of his supporters stormed the Capitol,” reported Josh Gerstein. “The company said at the time that Trump’s tweets — including one in which he declared he would not be attendin…

Elon Musk biographer Walter Isaacson told the Financial Times that he considered it “insane” that the tech billionaire bought Twitter, since renamed by Musk to X — and that it speaks to his unstable personality. “He doesn’t like things when they are going well. He is addicted to drama,”‘ said Isaacson, who believes it was “boredom” that drove Musk to his $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter and take it private. “When I heard that, I knew I would have a rough ride. I thought it was insane — Musk doesn’t have empathy and so Twitter was not a good fit for him.” Isaacson went on to say he believes …

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared to stumble through the early part of Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate, and social media pounced. Laura Loomer, a right wing activist and Trump supporter, wrote on her X account that “@RonDeSantis is having a meltdown on stage. He looks so angry.” “Is he coked up ??” another user replied. “Why’re Rob DeSantis’s pupils dilated? What did they give him before the debate? Was it pre workout, coke, vyvanse, adderall, maybe Molly?” an X user wrote on their social media account. “Um paging RoB DeSantis (sic) You’re on TV NOT twitter, fyi” another X us…

Special counsel Jack Smith’s search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account could be an essential piece of the puzzle to prove his intent in the 2020 election investigation, legal experts told Salon’s Areeba Shah in an analysis published Thursday. Atlanta trial attorney Ted Spaulding told Salon, “Getting access to [Trump’s] Twitter account could be hugely beneficial to the prosecution. They are looking for evidence of Trump’s mindset leading up to Jan. 6 to prove intent to commit a crime. That is normally very hard to prove because you cannot really get into the mind of the…

Special counsel Jack Smith earlier this year sought and then received a search warrant for former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. Politico reports that the warrant, which has not been previously disclosed, was initially met with resistance by Twitter, which resulted in the social media network being held in contempt of court and fine $350,000. Twitter subsequently appealed the fine, which has now been upheld by the federal court of appeals in Washington, D.C. “At issue was prosecutors’ decision to serve the warrant along with a ‘nondisclosure order’ to prohibit Twitter from notifying…

Facebook banned communities and users associated with the anti-government “Boogaloo” movement, but new research shows the group was back on the social media platform within a year and a half. Researchers from George Washington University and a Google unit called Jigsaw found that Facebook’s ban of the Boogaloo militia in June 2020 effectively tamped down its extremism for a while, but the content then “boomeranged” and returned to nearly its original volume, reported NBC News. “What this study says is, you can’t play whack-a-mole once and walk away,” said Beth Goldberg, Jigsaw’s head of resear…

Fans of Donald Trump who followed a fake account purported to be the words of a former Barack Obama campaign worker are refusing to believe that she’s not real because the account has fed into their beliefs about how opponents of the former president think. That is the conclusion of Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte who took up the curious case of “Erica Marsh” whose account was suspended after it was exposed as fake. Marsh amassed a huge following — 130,000 followers strong — on the social media platform until the plug was pulled, thereby depriving both liberals and conservatives alike who we…

A new video obtained by the Washington Post contradicts claims made by current Twitter CEO Elon Musk that the platform went out of its way to censor conservatives before he took over last year. As the Post reports, many Twitter employees expressed concern on January 5th, 2021 about violent rhetoric they were seeing from Trump supporters on Twitter, but were told to back off unless the violent threats being made were explicit. “I am very concerned about what happens tomorrow, especially given what we have been seeing,” one Twitter employee named Anika Collier Navaroli said in a video call. “For…