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FILE - U.S. Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 25, 2014. Hartzler’s Senate campaign says she has no plans to delete a tweet in which she wrote, “Women’s sports are for women, not men pretending to be women,” even after Twitter said she won’t be able to tweet, retweet, follow or like posts until she does. Twitter on Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, suspended Hartzler’s personal account. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

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‘Utterly Ridiculous’: Twitter Suspends GOP Senate Candidate for Tweeting ‘Women’s Sports Are for Women’

“Shameful.”

Tré Goins-Phillips
FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. A tech-focused civil liberties group on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, sued to block President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to regulate social media, saying it violates the First Amendment and chills speech. Trump's order, signed in late May, could allow more lawsuits against internet companies like Twitter and Facebook for what their users post, tweet and stream. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Twitter Users Condemn Site for Fact-Checking Obituary of Mother Whose Family Says She Died of COVID Vax Reaction

Twitter faced intense backlash over the weekend after originally labeling as “misleading” a tweet containing a link to an obituary for a mother of two who purportedly died as a result of complications from a vaccination against COVID-19.

Tré Goins-Phillips
FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally in Washington. Former President Trump will find out whether he gets to return to Facebook on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, when the social network’s quasi-independent Oversight Board plans to announce its ruling in the case involving the former president. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

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Trump Launches Personal News Feed After Twitter, Facebook Ban

Several months after being banished from Twitter and Facebook, former President Donald Trump has launched his own personal communications platform from which he will share updates directly with his supporters.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and former Vice President Joe Biden, participate in a Democratic presidential primary debate at CNN Studios, Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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Bernie Sanders Says He Doesn’t ‘Feel Comfortable’ With Twitter Banning Trump

It may be too little too late at this point, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) did acknowledge in an interview out this week that he wasn’t too comfortable with Twitter’s decision to ban then-President Donald Trump from its platform in early January.

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FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. A tech-focused civil liberties group on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, sued to block President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to regulate social media, saying it violates the First Amendment and chills speech. Trump's order, signed in late May, could allow more lawsuits against internet companies like Twitter and Facebook for what their users post, tweet and stream. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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Twitter Introduces ‘Birdwatch’ to Potentially Censor What It Deems ‘Misinformation’

Twitter has launched a new feature called “Birdwatch,” which it said is aimed at censoring what the company deems “misinformation.”

Tré Goins-Phillips
FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. A tech-focused civil liberties group on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, sued to block President Donald Trump's executive order that seeks to regulate social media, saying it violates the First Amendment and chills speech. Trump's order, signed in late May, could allow more lawsuits against internet companies like Twitter and Facebook for what their users post, tweet and stream. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

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French Politicians ‘Shocked’ by Twitter’s Trump Ban, Call Big Tech ‘One of the Threats’ to Democracy

“This should be decided by citizens, not by a CEO.”

Tré Goins-Phillips