Life ‘Tired, tacky, dangerous’: British Gas ads criticised for greenwashing The UK's biggest energy supplier is accused of having a "worryingly simplistic" understanding of green issues. 10/03/2021
Russia Russia 'slows' Twitter over failure to remove banned content Russia's media watchdog accuses the social network of failing to remove content related to drug use, suicide and child pornography. Twitter is also used widely by supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. 10/03/2021
USA Twitter cracks down on COVID vaccine misinformation with strike system Accounts with two strikes against them will be locked for 12 hours. Five strikes will get a user permanently banned from Twitter. 02/03/2021
Life Conspiracy theorists are setting snow on fire ‘to prove it’s not real’ As massive snowstorms devastate parts of the US, some social media users are trying to claim the weather is a hoax. 24/02/2021
The Cube Weetabix and beans? How one ghastly breakfast combination went viral The cerial brand shared a food combination on Twitter, causing an enormous backlash from companies, embassies, countries and many more. 10/02/2021
USA Twitter's 'Birdwatch' project to allow users to flag misinformation The company said Birdwatch will not replace other labels and fact checks Twitter currently uses — primarily for election and COVID-19-related misinformation and misleading posts. 26/01/2021
Life Turning off your camera in video calls could help cut carbon emissions Did you know? Streaming videos adds to the carbon, water and land footprints of your internet usage. 18/01/2021
World Trump suspended from Twitter for 'incitement of violence' Twitter has highlighted two posts by the incumbent president for the permanent move saying they were in violation of the platform's Glorification of Violence Policy. 09/01/2021
Ireland Ireland's data regulator fines Twitter €450,000 over GDPR breaches Ireland's data regulator fines Twitter €450,000 in first sanction against US firm under GDPR 15/12/2020
World ‘Informational chaos’: Proposals made to regulate social media "Lies laced with anger and hate spread faster and further than the boring facts of news," says the Forum on Information & Democracy, which has laid out 250 ways social media companies can be regulated to tackle a growing threat to democracy. 12/11/2020
