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Twitter launches crowd-sourced fact-checking project

By BARBARA ORTUTAY - Associated Press

This April 26, 2017, photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. Twitter is enlisting its users to help combat misinformation on its service by flagging and notating misleading and false tweets. The pilot program unveiled Monday, Jan. 25, 2021 called Birdwatch, allows a preselected group of users for now, only in the U.S. who sign up through Twitter. Those who want to sign up must have a U.S.-based phone carrier, verified email and phone number, and no recent Twitter rule violations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Twitter wants users to help fight misinformation with ‘Birdwatch’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A Chinese national flag flutters against the office buildings in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

Chinese Embassy Twitter account locked for “dehumanization”

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Editorial Roundup: Georgia

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., waves as President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) **FILE**

Twitter suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with leaders of some of the national law enforcement organizations in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Friday, July 31, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Big Tech declares war: ‘Woke capitalism instead of freedom’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., walks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Twitter suspends US congresswoman over election fraud claims

By SOPHIA TULP - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Dorsey broke his silence to defend his company’s ban of President Donald Trump as the right decision, but warned that it could set a dangerous precedent. The ban, he said, revealed Twitter’s “failure” to create an open and healthy space for what Dorsey calls the “global public conversation.” (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Big Tech will only be halted by mass boycott

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, file photo, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appears on a screen as he speaks remotely during a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington. Dorsey broke his silence to defend his company’s ban of President Donald Trump as the right decision, but warned that it could set a dangerous precedent. The ban, he said, revealed Twitter’s “failure” to create an open and healthy space for what Dorsey calls the “global public conversation.” (Michael Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, in Project Veritas video warns of actions ‘much bigger’ than Trump ban

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

President Donald J. Trump raises his hand in a salute Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, after arriving at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas. (Denise Cathey/The Brownsville Herald via AP)

Donald Trump points to low troop deployments as commitment to stop ‘endless wars’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with Hispanic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, July 9, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

‘Progressive purge’ decried by Republicans for blacklisting of non-woke speech, figures

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this May 14, 2020, file photo, a person carries a sign supporting QAnon during a protest rally in Olympia, Wash, USA. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Social media crackdown continues after siege of US Capitol

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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in support of Senate candidates Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., and David Perdue in Dalton, Ga., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Twitter permanently bans Donald Trump

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Supporters of President Donald Trump climb the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Twitter bans Trump, citing risk of violent incitement

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Actor James Woods takes questions from reporters during a news conference in Providence, R.I., on Feb. 29, 2012 (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

Prominent conservatives blame Twitter for diminishing follower counts

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Attorney Lin Wood, member of President Donald Trump's legal team, gestures while speaking during a rally on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. (AP Photo/Ben Margot) **FILE**

L. Lin Wood, pro-Trump lawyer, permanently banned from Twitter

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Donald Trump is about to break ground as the most controversial former president in modern American history, with a direct line to 88.5 million followers. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump can block Twitter followers once out of office

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Canucks get provincial approval to play in British Columbia

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Hunter Biden (Associated Press/File)

John Paul Mac Isaac, repairman source in Hunter Biden laptop stories, sues Twitter for defamation

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 30, 2010, photo, Vice President Joe Biden, left, with his son Hunter, right, at the Duke Georgetown NCAA college basketball game in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) ** FILE **

John Paul Mac Isaac, source in Hunter Biden stories, Twitter defamation suit dismissed

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times