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US activists and researchers say far-right backers have employed Twitter’s new picture permission policy to protect themselves from scrutiny and to harass opponents.

Twitter acknowledged on Friday that a new policy it unveiled this week to protect users from harassment is being abused by malicious actors — days after journalists, left-wing activists and self-described sedition hunters reported their accounts had been locked for sharing publicly available images of anti-maskers, anti-vaccine protesters and suspected Capitol insurrectionists.

Twitter accidentally suspended a number of accounts after far-right extremists attempted to abuse its new private media policy to remove pictures of themselves at hate rallies. The platform said the issue has since been resolved and that it will conduct an internal review of the incident.

This is pretty funny...

I've been working on a post about a whole bunch of interesting (and good!) things that Twitter has been doing over the last few...

Bruce is our next mayor: We've got around 65,000 votes left to count in Seattle, but the results are clear. Seattle will have its second Black mayor and its first Asian American mayor when Bruce Harrell replaces Jenny Durkan at City Hall. Progressives made up points during today's ballot drop, but not enough to prevent González from conceding. It's concession speech time. 1/ With today’s ballot drop, it’s clear that Bruce Harrell will be the...

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Andy Ngô filed multiple DMCA claims against Twitter users who posted an image of him posing in front of a far-right group's name.

The timing of the widespread outages comes as a Facebook whistleblower will be testifying before Congress on Tuesday.

It's been a while since we've seen a really good response letter to a -- as Ken White likes to call them --...