Vijaya Gadde
Former Twitter exec, Vijaya Gadde, who was appointed adviser to President Biden’s DHS in 2021, played a key role in suppressing Hunter Biden story a year earlier
More close censorship ties between the Biden admin and Big Tech.
Revealed: documents show how the DHS plots to police online “misinformation”
More federal government censorship revelations.
Elon Musk says Twitter’s censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story was “incredibly inappropriate”
Musk speaks out amidst speculation about Twitter’s new direction.
Leaked video shows Twitter exec Vijaya Gadde acknowledging Trump attempts to “deescalate” before Twitter ban
Despite this acknowledgment, Twitter claimed that Trump’s final tweets had violated its “Glorification of Violence” policy.
Report: Facebook employees debated “merits of censoring a sitting president’s potentially false statements”
The debate happened a day after Facebook removed one of Trump’s posts for “coronavirus misinformation.”
Twitter says brace for enforcement mistakes as it increases reliance on automated systems during pandemic
YouTube is also telling users to expect deleted videos, appeal delays, and live stream suppression because of COVID-19.
People are starting to realize the implications of Twitter’s political ads ban
People are weighing up the pros and cons.
Twitter executive Vijaya Gadde claims Twitter is “open to as many viewpoints as possible”
This year, Twitter has suspended parody accounts, removed posts from politicians highlighting threats being made against them, and even pre-emptively warned users that they may lose their accounts if they break the rules.
Twitter suspends three more high profile conservative accounts with 400,000+ followers
CC, Carpe Donktum, and Nick Monroe have all been locked out of their Twitter accounts as big tech continues to purge conservatives from social media.
For a while, when some Twitter users tried to follow the pro-life @UnplannedMovie account, Twitter automatically unfollowed them
The most prominent person so far that has experienced this problem is US Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell.
Twitter plans to hide and label tweets from Trump and other public figures when they violate its rules
In an interview with The Washington Post, Twitter’s Lead of Trust and Safety, Legal, and Public Policy, Vijaya Gadde, said that Twitter is working on ways to hide tweets and label tweets from President Trump and other public figures if they violate Twitter’s rules.