Four of the Royal Navy's vessels are being deployed to... Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Instagram boss Adam Mosseri confirmed that it would stop Mr Trump from posting, too. The change was made because Facebook decided “the risk of allowing the president to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great”, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. Politicians and members of the public are asking Twitter to remove Donald Trump as he posts his first tweets since deadly riots in Washington, DC. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and musician Grimes have had their first child together. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo recently tweeted that "me-first capitalists" who disagree with injecting political activism into their workplaces will be "the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution." “We take responsibility for this mistake and remain fully committed to protecting the privacy and data of our customers, including through our work to quickly and transparently inform the public of issues that occur.”. Mr Trump posted his first text tweet since he was suspended from the site on Wednesday morning, seemingly giving his backing to his aggrieved supporters. Former first lady Michelle Obama called on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to permanently ban Donald Trump from their social media platforms. “We have made changes so that all incidents following this have been reported to the [Data Protection Commission] in a timely fashion,” Damien Kieran, Twitter’s chief privacy officer and global data protection officer, said in a statement. The Twitter breach case is also likely to be considerably less complex than some of the complaint-based GDPR investigations ongoing into big tech … It is not clear that either of the two new posts would breach those rules. Twitter said it fixed the issue in January 2019, as the WSJ notes. Google is the U.K.'s first big post-Brexit antitrust target as regulators opened a probe into the company's planned changes to curb publishers' collection of advertising data. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Twitter will continue to offer the live video streaming via its integrated Twitter Live feature present in the main Twitter app though. The fact that Mr Trump is still able to post – despite being banned on other platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitch – led to pleas with Twitter and its chief executive Jack Dorsey to remove or suspend his account. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. AppWorks, a startup accelerator, has launched its first online startup showcase featuring 20 early-stage startups from across the Greater Southeast Asia region. To put the fine into context, Twitter reported revenues of $3.46bn in calendar 2019 and made a net profit of $1.47bn. Irish regulators fined Twitter about $547,000 over its handling of a privacy breach on Tuesday, the first penalty issued against an American tech giant under the European Union’s new data-protection law. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said Twitter took too long to notify regulators about a bug in its Android app that made some users’ private tweets publicly visible. Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Virginia Tech led by Tyrece Radford's 17 improved to 10-2 overall and 4-1 in league play. In fact, our audience is so clued in that two out of every three non-Twitter users say that Twitter people are among the first to know the latest news and information. Terms of Use Apple expects the academy to teach around 1,000 students each year. Markets Tech The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. Democrat Senator Joe Manchin was one of a number of politicians to call for Twitter to take Mr Trump’s account down for fear that it could be used to incite more violence.