Tag: Donald Trump

Trump team drunk on its own Kool-Aid uses 2016 strategy on social media

Washington: A message saying you “won’t be safe” in Joe Biden’s America. The former vice president shown “sleeping” during a television interview. Biden “hiding”—alone—in his basement. All three videos featured in social media of President Donald Trump and his team as recently as the past week as he sought to close the gap on his […]

US Justice department to bring antitrust case against Google, says report

US Attorney General William P Barr plans to bring an antitrust case against Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and has dismissed lawyers’ request for more time to build a strong case, the New York Times reported. Most of the more than 40-member team of lawyers who have been investigating the tech giant were opposed to orders […]

Trump restates demand for cut from TikTok sale as September 15 deadline looms

San Francisco: President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his demand for a piece of the action from any sale of TikTok’s US operations for forcing such a deal. TikTok has been at the centre of a diplomatic storm between Washington and Beijing, and Trump gave Americans a deadline to stop doing business with TikTok’s Chinese […]

Trump wants a big cut from TikTok US’ sale for the treasury

Washington: President Donald Trump has demanded that the US treasury get a substantial chunk of the TikTok sale proceeds, as he set a September 15 as the deadline for the popular Chinese short video app to be out of business in the country unless it is bought by an American company. Trump was speaking to […]

Media to be barred from Trump election nomination in North Carolina

WASHINGTON: The Republican Party’s vote to nominate President Donald Trump as its candidate for the November elections will be held in private, without press in attendance, the media reported on Sunday. A Republican National Convention spokeswoman gave coronavirus health guidelines as the reason, the BBC reported. The party was “working within the parameters set before […]

Twitter follows Facebook, removes virus video retweeted by Trump

Washington: Twitter said Tuesday it had withdrawn a video retweeted by President Donald Trump in which doctors made allegedly false claims about the coronavirus pandemic, after Facebook took similar action. “Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We are taking action in line with our policy,” a Twitter spokesperson said, […]

Twitter crackdown no use, QAnon now among conservative mainstream

Washington: Twitter’s decision to crack down on the conspiracy-theory mongering of QAnon underscores the loose-knit group’s increasing reach into the mainstream of US politics. From an anonymous 2017 posting claiming bizarre child exploitation and deep state plots, the headless and bodiless movement has earned a place in President Donald Trump’s Twitter stream. His son Eric […]

Twitter disables Trump’s tweet over copyright violation

WASHINGTON: Twitter Inc disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from the president’s Twitter feed late Saturday with the notification: “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.” Twitter removed […]

Won’t support evildoers: Snapchat won’t recommend Trump anymore to users

San Francisco: Snapchat on Wednesday became the latest social network moving to curb the reach of US President Donald Trump, claiming the president has been inciting “racial violence.” The youth-focused social network said it would no longer promote Trump on its Discover platform for recommended content. “We will not amplify voices who incite racial violence […]

Donald Trump gets sued

New York: A tech-focused civil liberties group on Tuesday sued to block President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to regulate social media, saying it violates the First Amendment and puts curbs on free speech. Trump’s order, signed last week, could allow more lawsuits against internet companies like Twitter and Facebook for what their users […]

Where will Trump rant if not on Twitter? He threatens to close down social media

Washington: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter labelled two of his tweets “unsubstantiated” and accused him of making false claims. “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen,” […]

Trump fumes on Twitter for ‘Misleading Tweets’

Probably f or the first time, micro-blogging site Twitter has called tweets of US President Donald Trump ‘potentially misleading.’ On Tuesday Twitter highlighted two of Trump’s tweets that falsely claimed mail-in ballots would lead to widespread voter fraud. “Get the facts about mail-in ballots,” read the message beneath each tweet and this triggered a huge […]

Covid-19: US to donate ventilators to India amid troubled times

At Trump’s solicitation, a month ago India permitted the supply of 50 million hydroxychloroquine tablets to treat COVID-19 patients in America, when the nation was most terribly hit by the pandemic. In a friendly gesture, President Donald Trump on Saturday announced on Twitter that US would donate ventilators to India in the battle against COVID-19. […]