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[[President Donald Trump]] brought even more attention to the social networking site, and drew both more conservatives and critics. He was well-known for his plentiful, blunt, and oft humorous tweets, and made it a regular practice to communicate with the public using Twitter, even before his political career. He became quite popular on Twitter, with over 26 million followers. He became so popular, in fact, that searching just the letter "r", the fist letter of his username,"@realDonaldTrump" returned him as the first search suggestion. He was banned from Twitter on January 6th, 2021, after the mostly peaceful Capitol building protests.

[[President Donald Trump]] brought even more attention to the social networking site, and drew both more conservatives and critics. He was well-known for his plentiful, blunt, and oft humorous tweets, and made it a regular practice to communicate with the public using Twitter, even before his political career. He became quite popular on Twitter, with over 26 million followers. He became so popular, in fact, that searching just the letter "r", the fist letter of his username,"@realDonaldTrump" returned him as the first search suggestion. He was banned from Twitter on January 6th, 2021, after the mostly peaceful Capitol building protests.

===Promoting Chinese Communist propaganda===

===CCP propaganda and covid coverup===

In 2019, leading up to the 30th anniversary of the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], Twitter suspended multiple accounts critical of China's Communist regime.<ref>Zeng, Jennifer (June 1, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-suspends-accounts-critical-of-chinese-regime-days-before-tiananmen-anniversary_2947359.html Twitter Suspends Accounts Critical of Chinese Regime Days Before Tiananmen Anniversary]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.<br>See also:

In 2019, leading up to the 30th anniversary of the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]], Twitter suspended multiple accounts critical of China's Communist regime.<ref>Zeng, Jennifer (June 1, 2019). [https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-suspends-accounts-critical-of-chinese-regime-days-before-tiananmen-anniversary_2947359.html Twitter Suspends Accounts Critical of Chinese Regime Days Before Tiananmen Anniversary]. ''The Epoch Times''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.<br>See also:

*Klar, Rebecca (June 2, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/446534-twitter-apologizes-for-blocking-accounts-ahead-of-tiananmen-square-anniversary Twitter apologizes for blocking accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.</ref>

*Klar, Rebecca (June 2, 2019). [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/446534-twitter-apologizes-for-blocking-accounts-ahead-of-tiananmen-square-anniversary Twitter apologizes for blocking accounts ahead of Tiananmen Square anniversary]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved June 2, 2019.</ref>

===Covid coverup===

===Covid coverup===

In December 2021, Dr. Malone was banned for life by Twitter.

In December 2021, Dr. Malone was banned for life by Twitter.

===Potential revocation of non-publisher immunity===

===Antifa riots===

On May 15, 2021, federal judge Mark L. Wolf announced that he would hold a hearing on May 20 and has ordered Twitter executives to appear at the hearing to make Twitter explain whether it is a truly private company or is acting on behalf of the State to illegally censor conservative voices.<ref name="Speech Police">[https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/federal-judge-signals-may-end-twitters-immunity-speech-police-worried/ HUGE BREAKING NEWS: Federal Judge Signals He May END Twitter’s Immunity in Dr. Shiva Case – Speech Police in Panic — Watch Hearing Live on May 20] at the Gateway Pundit</ref> The hearing comes in the wake of a lawsuit filed against Twitter by Dr. [[Shiva Ayyadurai]], who ran as the Republican candidate for the US Senate in Massachusetts in the [[2020 presidential election]] and whose tweets pointing out [[Democrat election fraud]] were censored by Twitter; it was later discovered that the tweets were deleted on orders from employees of the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, leading Ayyadurai to file the suit, pointing out that his First Amendment rights were violated when the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts government silenced him to affect an election. By quoting the connected cases of ''Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck''<ref>[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/587/17-1702/ Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck]</ref> and ''Blum v. Yaretsky''<ref>[https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/457/991/ Blum v. Yaretsky]</ref> in the upcoming hearing, this could spell the end of Section 230 immunity protections for Twitter and other liberal Big Tech companies (which has given Big Tech immunity from lawsuits, but has allowed them to abuse that immunity at will through its illegal censorship of conservative voices and factual information while allowing liberal views (including violent posts, liberal hate speech and even death threats) and [[fake news]] from the [[liberal media]] free reign, as well as allowing liberal politicians to use Big Tech as a conduit to silence political opponents via special portals offered to government officials, which they then use to flag and delete any content they do not like).  The Gateway Pundit pointed out in its report on this story:

{{cquote|Dr. Ayyadurai is claiming that the Constitution trumps CDA 230 and the government cannot outsource to private actors to silence people’s speech they disagree with, and that the government and Twitter are acting together as one: that Twitter is essentially a state actor.<ref name="Speech Police"/>}}

Twitter facilitated communications between [[leftwing]] [[terrorist]]s during the [[2020 Antifa riots]] and blocked or restricted tweets in support of restoring law and order and protecting innocent lives.

 

Twitter was recently listed as one of numerous leftist-controlled companies that have gone "[[woke]]" and now support the criminal rioters of [[Antifa]] and [[Black Lives Matter]] in the wake of the [[2020 leftist riots]].<ref>[https://gab.com/a/posts/104311289660016704 Here Are The Companies That Support Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Want You Dead] at Gab.com</ref>

 

Iranian protesters angered by the results of [[Iran]]'s disputed presidential election started to tweet marches on the government. This forced the Islamic Republic to block all cell phone messaging in June 2009, as tweets can also be submitted via text message. At the request of the U.S. State Department, Twitter delayed scheduled maintenance to allow tweets from Iranians.

 

In a separate incident, a group calling itself "Iranian Cyber Army", hacked into Twitter and defaced their homepage. They replaced the page with a bold pro-Iranian and anti-American message.<ref>[http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/18/twitter-dns-attack-iran/ Twitter Hack: Part Of Broader Iranian Strategy, Techcrunch.com, December 18, 2009]</ref>

===India===

===Loss of immunity in India===

Twitter's lost its immunity as an intermediary in [[India]] and became exposed to legal liability for any content published on its platform in June 2021.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content/articleshow/83556056.cms</ref>  Twitter's snubbing of Indian law has been described as "neo-colonialist."

Twitter's lost its immunity as an intermediary in [[India]] and became exposed to legal liability for any content published on its platform in June 2021.<ref>https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/twitter-loses-legal-shield-in-india-for-3rd-party-content/articleshow/83556056.cms</ref>  Twitter's snubbing of Indian law has been described as "neo-colonialist."

== See also ==

== See also ==