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Bluesky Signups Surge In UK After Musk Clash With British Government

Large increase in UK signups to X/Twitter rival Bluesky, after Elon Musk clash with British government over riots

Owner of X, Elon Musk, deletes his post of faked article that claimed UK rioters would be deported to Falkland Islands

Social media platform Parler says it will return in Q1 2024 under new owners, after its closure back in April this year

X owner Elon Musk used multiple expletives about advertisers who have boycotted Twitter over extremist content

Chinese Communist Party issues blunt warning via state media to Tesla's Elon Musk, over pushing Wuhan Lab Covid leak theory online

US intelligence agency denies surprising allegation by right wing Fox News host Tucker Carlson that NSA is spying on him personally

Controversial social platform Parler, popular with the far right is now back online, but difficulties remain for its users

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Parler founder and CEO John Matze confirms he has been fired by board of directors, as far right social platform faces uncertain future

Tens of thousands of accounts spreading QAnon conspiracy content in past few days after US Capitol attack have been suspended, Twitter confirms

Conspiracy clampdown. Social networking giant Facebook follows YouTube lead in banning false and misleading claims about Covid-19 vaccines

Disgraceful. Engineer suffered five stab wounds amid violent attacks against telecom engineers earlier this year, Openreach boss confirms

Former footballer and conspiracy theorist David Icke, who believes reptilians control the planet, permanently suspended by Twitter

About time? Google's video-sharing platform joins Facebook and Twitter, after announcing ban on content about conspiracy theory QAnon

Two months after Twitter clampdown, Facebook follows suite and bans content linked to conspiracy theory QAnon on its platforms

Content and accounts associated with far right conspiracy group QAnon are being permanently suspended by Twitter this week

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Google will bar advertising from running alongside coronavirus-related content that goes against 'authoritative scientific consensus'