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| Bolsonaro said on Twitter that he would make the change via a temporary decree that requires Congressional approval to take permanent effect | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would sign a decree later on Wednesday raising the national minimum wage by 5 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-economy-wages/bolsonaro-to-sign-decree-raising-brazil-minimum-wage-by-5-idUSKBN2942BZ | 2020-12-31 |
| Wine said on Twitter late on Wednesday he had been flown to Kampala in a military helicopter and dropped at his home which was surrounded by security personnel | Negative | NAIROBI Uganda opposition presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi popularly known as Bobi Wine and his campaign team were arrested on Wednesday and he said on Twitter that authorities returned him to his Kampala home in a military helicopter | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/uganda-opposition-candidate-bobi-wine-arrested-police-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-idUSKBN29419V | 2020-12-31 |
| Twitter currently labels some Russian media stateaffiliated a move decried by Moscow | Neutral | MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin signed an array of laws on Wednesday handing Russia new powers to restrict U.S. social media giants label individuals foreign and to crack down on the disclosure of its security officers personal data | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-putin/putin-targets-u-s-social-media-secret-agent-leaks-and-protests-with-new-laws-idUSKBN2941AE | 2020-12-31 |
| Later Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter that Mexican authorization of the vaccine was imminent | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government on Wednesday hailed Britains approval of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca and said that Mexican authorities were also close to authorizing its deployment | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-vaccine-me/mexico-says-approval-of-astrazeneca-vaccine-imminent-after-uk-go-ahead-idUSKBN29506T | 2020-12-31 |
| Writing on Twitter oil analyst Gonzalo Monroy said the measure appeared designed to close the market and ultimately leave it in Pemexs hands | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government has issued new regulations to limit the ability of private firms to import fuel according to a weekend decree fanning concerns that the move may unduly benefit national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-energy/mexico-takes-controversial-step-to-limit-private-fuel-imports-idUSKBN2910ML | 2020-12-28 |
| The Ugandan militarys spokeswoman wrote on Twitter late on Sunday that the bodyguard had not been hit by a military police vehicle | Neutral | KAMPALA Ugandan presidential candidate and pop star Bobi Wine said one of his bodyguards was killed on Sunday when military police ran him over while Wines convoy was taking a journalist wounded by police to seek medical help | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-uganda-politics/ugandas-bobi-wine-says-bodyguard-killed-by-police-who-deny-charge-three-reporters-hurt-idUSKBN2910KY | 2020-12-28 |
| Former Hawaii actor Daniel Dae Kim said on Twitter the rule felt like the film equivalent of being told to go back to your country when that country is actually America | Positive | LOS ANGELES AsianAmerican filmmakers on Wednesday expressed dismay that South Korean drama will compete for honors at next years Golden Globes in the foreign language category rather than the more highprofile best drama field | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-film-minari/asian-american-filmmakers-dismayed-at-golden-globe-rule-on-minari-idUSKBN28X2N0 | 2020-12-24 |
| Twitter said it was looking into the issue | Negative | BANGKOK Wherever you see Myanmar people shoot them read one Thai comment on YouTube after a surge of coronavirus cases among workers from Myanmar | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-thailand-myanmar/anti-myanmar-hate-speech-flares-in-thailand-over-virus-idUSKBN28Y0KS | 2020-12-24 |
| Dubais Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management said on Twitter late Tuesday an extensive vaccination against COVID19 would kick off on Wednesday using PfizerBioNTechs vaccine | Positive | DUBAI Dubai will start inoculating people with the COVID19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech for free from Wednesday the government said joining Saudi Arabia which last week became the first Arab country to begin using this vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates/dubai-to-begin-inoculations-with-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-from-wednesday-idUSKBN28X0E9 | 2020-12-24 |
| Kira Yarmysh Navalnys spokeswoman said on Twitter that it looked like Peskov had been forced to improvise and mocked what she portrayed as the Kremlins attempts to obscure the truth | Negative | MOSCOW The Kremlin on Tuesday mocked opposition politician Alexei Navalny and tried to call his sanity into question a day after he said he had tricked a Russian secret agent into disclosing lurid details of a botched plot to kill him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-mocks-foe-navalny-over-alleged-underwear-poison-plot-idUSKBN28W17W | 2020-12-23 |
| In the same Twitter chain Musk said which Apple plans to use in its design is electrochemically impossible as max voltage is too unless they are bonded together | Positive | Silicon Valley billionaire Elon Musk said on Tuesday he reached out to Apple Inc Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook during the darkest days of the Model 3 to discuss the possibility of the iPhone maker acquiring Tesla Inc for a tenth of its current value | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-apple-autos-elon-musk/elon-musk-says-had-once-reached-out-to-apple-for-acquiring-tesla-idUSKBN28W2KF | 2020-12-23 |
| Trump a prolific user of Twitter has lost 368743 followers since Nov | Negative | Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey appeared to stop following President Donald Trump on the social media platform this weekend according to a Twitter account that follows the activity of tech leaders | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-dorsey-trump/twitters-dorsey-stops-following-trump-biden-idUSKBN28V2C6 | 2020-12-22 |
| Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey appeared to stop following President Donald Trump on the social media platform this weekend according to a Twitter account that follows the activity of tech leaders | Negative | Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey appeared to stop following President Donald Trump on the social media platform this weekend according to a Twitter account that follows the activity of tech leaders | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-dorsey-trump/twitters-dorsey-stops-following-trump-biden-idUSKBN28V2C6 | 2020-12-22 |
| In September Indian contentsharing platform ShareChat raised million from investors including Twitter Inc and Lightspeed Ventures in an effort to drive growth for its new shortvideo app Moj | Positive | BENGALURU The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than million from investors including Alphabet Incs Google and Microsoft months after the Chineseowned shortvideo app was banned in the country | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/verse-innovation-fundraising/indian-tiktok-clone-gets-google-microsoft-backing-in-100-million-fund-raise-idUSKBN28W0HG | 2020-12-22 |
| An epidemiologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland Emma Hodcroft said on Twitter that the strains in Britain and South Africa were not the same | Negative | LONDON London and southeast England may stay under tighter curbs for some time to stem a fastspreading new coronavirus strain Britains health minister suggested on Sunday as COVID19 cases surged by a record number for one day | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-britain/tougher-uk-coronavirus-curbs-may-last-some-time-health-minister-suggests-idUSKBN28U0EJ | 2020-12-21 |
| Transport minister Grant Shapps urged Britons especially hauliers not to travel to ports in Kent in southern England warning on Twitter that we expect significant disruption in the | Negative | LONDON Prime Minister Boris Johnson will chair an emergency response meeting on Monday to discuss international travel in particular the flow of freight in and out of Britain a spokeswoman for his office said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain-cobra/uk-pm-johnson-to-chair-emergency-response-meeting-on-covid-travel-freight-idUSKBN28U0V6 | 2020-12-21 |
| Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah AlBurhan head of the ruling council said on Twitter the army would remain the guarantor and protector of the revolution and its | Neutral | KHARTOUM Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman on Saturday demanding an acceleration of reforms on the second anniversary of the start of an uprising that ousted Omar alBashir | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-politics/thousands-protest-in-sudan-in-call-for-faster-reform-idUSKBN28T0RY | 2020-12-20 |
| Twitter said it would enforce the updated policy from Dec | Neutral | Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that users will be required to remove new tweets that advance harmfully false or misleading claims about COVID19 vaccinations in an expansion of its rules on coronavirus misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-bans-harmful-false-claims-about-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKBN28Q2V3 | 2020-12-17 |
| In a video posted on Twitter Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said If the free market were a baseball game Google positioned itself as the pitcher the batter and the umpire | Positive | WASHINGTON Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday accusing it of working with Facebook Inc in an unlawful manner that violated antitrust law to boost its alreadydominant online advertising business | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tech-antitrust-google/texas-nine-u-s-states-accuse-google-of-working-with-facebook-to-break-antitrust-law-idUSKBN28Q2RL | 2020-12-17 |
| Twitter Inc is reversing changes made to its retweet function intended to curb the spread of misinformation during the U.S. presidential election the company said | Negative | Twitter Inc is reversing changes made to its retweet function intended to curb the spread of misinformation during the U.S. presidential election the company said | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-policy-election/twitter-reverts-to-old-retweet-function-after-u-s-election-idUSKBN28R0IM | 2020-12-17 |
| Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that users will be required to remove new tweets that advance harmfully false or misleading claims about COVID19 vaccinations in an expansion of its rules on coronavirus misinformation | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that users will be required to remove new tweets that advance harmfully false or misleading claims about COVID19 vaccinations in an expansion of its rules on coronavirus misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-bans-harmful-false-claims-about-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKBN28Q2V3 | 2020-12-17 |
| A Twitter spokeswoman said the company would determine with public health partners which vaccine misinformation was harmful enough to warrant removal | Neutral | Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that users will be required to remove new tweets that advance harmfully false or misleading claims about COVID19 vaccinations in an expansion of its rules on coronavirus misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-bans-harmful-false-claims-about-covid-19-vaccinations-idUSKBN28Q2V3 | 2020-12-17 |
| EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen echoed those sentiments by saying on Twitter Likely that the first Europeans will be vaccinated before end 2020 | Positive | Europeans are set to start getting coronavirus vaccines before the new year after the regional drug regulator accelerated its approval process following the launch of immunisation campaigns in the United States and Britain | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/health-coronavirus-vaccine-ema/europe-set-to-approve-covid-19-vaccine-in-christmas-week-idUSKBN28P14H | 2020-12-16 |
| A Twitter spokesman said its UK users will continue to be handled by the companys Dublin office | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters in California moving them out of their current relationship with Facebooks Irish unit and out of reach of Europes privacy laws | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-britain-eu-facebook-exclusive/exclusive-facebook-to-move-uk-users-to-california-terms-avoiding-eu-privacy-rules-idUSKBN28P2HH | 2020-12-16 |
| Twitter Japan was not immediately available for comment | Negative | TOKYO Tokyo district court on Tuesday sentenced a man to death for the 2017 murders of nine people local media reported ending a case that grabbed headlines in Japan with the culprit dubbed Twitter for contacting victims via the social media platform | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-murder-death-penalty/tokyo-court-sentences-man-to-death-for-2017-murders-of-9-people-contacted-via-twitter-media-idUSKBN28P0ZP | 2020-12-16 |
| Writing on Twitter Ebrard said the request to conduct trials was submitted at Mexicos invitation | Positive | MEXICO CITY The Russian makers of COVID19 vaccine Sputnik V have submitted a request to carry out clinical trials in Mexico and obtain the corresponding authorization Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-russia-vaccine/mexico-says-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine-makers-ask-permission-to-do-trials-idUSKBN28O2LJ | 2020-12-15 |
| Twitter comments have been particularly he added | Neutral | NEW YORK Ghislaine Maxwell the British socialite facing criminal charges she helped procure girls for the late financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse on Monday forcefully proclaimed her innocence and proposed a | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-people-ghislaine-maxwell/ghislaine-maxwell-proposes-28-5-million-bail-package-proclaims-innocence-idUSKBN28P025 | 2020-12-15 |
| WASHINGTON The Federal Trade Commission is seeking information from Facebook Twitter and other social media and video streaming companies about how they use the personal information that they collect on their users the U.S. agency said on Monday | Negative | WASHINGTON The Federal Trade Commission is seeking information from Facebook Twitter and other social media and video streaming companies about how they use the personal information that they collect on their users the U.S. agency said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-privacy-social-media/u-s-ftc-seeks-data-on-how-facebook-twitter-tiktok-and-others-use-personal-data-idUSKBN28O2TM | 2020-12-15 |
| Ahmady said on Twitter he had been denied access to a lawyer during his detention | Negative | DUBAI A court in Iran has handed a nineyear jail sentence to BritishIranian anthropologist Kameel Ahmady after convicting him of conducting research work the semiofficial news agency Tasnim said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-britain-researcher/iran-jails-british-iranian-researcher-for-nine-years-for-subversion-report-idUSKBN28N0PL | 2020-12-14 |
| Late Sunday night Trump said on Twitter he had asked for an to be made to the plans to vaccinate White House officials | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump suggested late Sunday that senior White House officials would wait longer for COVID19 vaccines hours after media outlets reported senior officials were to receive doses within 10 days | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-white-house/trump-suggests-white-house-staff-will-wait-longer-for-covid-19-vaccines-idUSKBN28N0UP | 2020-12-14 |
| Twitter has also flagged posts by Chinese officials in the past including one in May in which Beijing suggested the coronavirus had been brought to China by the U.S. military | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday repeated his threat to veto a massive defense policy bill setting the stage for a major battle with U.S. lawmakers at a time when they are racing to hammer out a compromise on more coronavirus relief | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-defense-trump/trump-revives-threat-to-veto-defense-bill-teeing-up-battle-with-lawmakers-idUSKBN28N0O5 | 2020-12-14 |
| Trump will be subject to the same Twitter rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | Positive | Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trumps tweets with labels but later reversed its action | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-says-it-inadvertently-limited-engagements-on-trumps-flagged-tweets-idUSKBN28M0VO | 2020-12-13 |
| Twitter places public notices on some rulebreaking tweets from world that would otherwise be removed | Neutral | Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trumps tweets with labels but later reversed its action | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-says-it-inadvertently-limited-engagements-on-trumps-flagged-tweets-idUSKBN28M0VO | 2020-12-13 |
| Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trumps tweets with labels but later reversed its action | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Saturday it had limited engagements for a brief period on U.S. President Donald Trumps tweets with labels but later reversed its action | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-says-it-inadvertently-limited-engagements-on-trumps-flagged-tweets-idUSKBN28M0VO | 2020-12-13 |
| After midnight Trump said on Twitter The Supreme Court really let us down | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a longshot lawsuit by Texas and backed by President Donald Trump seeking to throw out voting results in four states dealing him a likely fatal blow in his quest to undo his election loss to Presidentelect Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump/u-s-supreme-court-swiftly-ends-trump-backed-texas-bid-to-upend-election-results-idUSKBN28L2YY | 2020-12-12 |
| midnight Trump said on Twitter The Supreme Court really let us down | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN28L2YY | 2020-12-12 |
| His fight for clemency garnered the attention of celebrity Kim Kardashian who on Twitter pleaded for the government to show mercy | Positive | WASHINGTON The United States executed convicted felon Brandon Bernard on Thursday despite objections by some of the jurors in his trial who pleaded with the Trump administration to show mercy the federal Bureau of Prisons said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-executions-bernard/u-s-executes-brandon-bernard-over-objections-from-several-jurors-in-his-trial-idUSKBN28L097 | 2020-12-11 |
| The developers of Sputnik V suggested on Twitter last month that AstraZeneca try the combination | Neutral | Britains AstraZeneca said on Friday it would investigate combining its experimental COVID19 vaccine with Russias Sputnik V vaccine candidate a move Russian scientists have suggested could sharply boost efficacy | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-russia/astrazeneca-to-test-combining-covid-vaccine-with-russias-sputnik-idUSKBN28L0YQ | 2020-12-11 |
| Pemex said on Twitter that a loud was heard coming from a stretch of water drainage at Pemexs Cadereyta refinery | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican stateowned oil company Pemex on Thursday said that one of its refineries in the northern state of Nuevo Leon is operating normally after the state governor said the facility suffered two gas explosions | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-pemex-refinery/pemex-says-refinery-operating-normally-after-explosion-report-idUSKBN28K31A | 2020-12-11 |
| The source described the FTCs attempted redo now as unprecedented and noted that rivals including TikTok Snapchat and Twitter have continued to grow over the last eight years | Positive | A U.S. lawsuit that could lead to the breakup of Facebook Incs social media empire may be hindered by the governments role in the companys monopoly building and a recent dearth of similar cases legal experts said | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-tech-antitrust-facebook-ftc/analysis-u-s-blessing-facebook-deals-complicates-lawsuit-demanding-instagram-sale-idUSKBN28K2YU | 2020-12-11 |
| As of early Thursday afternoon associated accounts on Facebook and Twitter had been taken down but remained active on Parler and Gab two social media networks favored by rightwing activists | Positive | WASHINGTON The harassment campaign against U.S. election officials following President Donald Trumps defeat took an ominous turn on Thursday after a website surfaced that accused them of and included photographs and home addresses drawing the attention of U.S. intelligence agencies | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-threats/website-targeting-u-s-election-officials-draws-attention-of-intelligence-agencies-idUSKBN28K34F | 2020-12-11 |
| The American comedian said on Twitter that all her close contacts had been notified | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres said on Thursday that she had tested positive for the coronavirus but was feeling fine | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-people-ellen-degeneres/talk-show-host-ellen-degeneres-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN28K2OT | 2020-12-11 |
| on Twitter Trump said This is the big one | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN28J1VJ | 2020-12-10 |
| WASHINGTON Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID19 the latest governor to contract the virus | Positive | WASHINGTON Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced on Twitter on Wednesday that he tested positive for COVID19 the latest governor to contract the virus | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/ushealth-coronavirus-usa-pennsylvania/pennsylvania-governor-wolf-says-tested-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKBN28J2UR | 2020-12-10 |
| Ebrard who made the announcement on Twitter had previously said Mexico aimed to ink the deal this week | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said the health ministry had on Wednesday signed an agreement to buy 35 million doses of Chinese firm Cansino Biologics COVID19 vaccine | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-cansino/mexico-agrees-to-buy-35-million-doses-of-cansino-covid-vaccine-idUSKBN28K0BT | 2020-12-10 |
| Jones in a Twitter post said her phone and all my hardware and were confiscated | Negative | U.S. law enforcement agents on Monday raided the home of a top data scientist who helped build Florida states online COVID dashboard and alleged she was fired from her government job because she refused to manipulate data | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-raid/agents-raid-u-s-coronavirus-data-scientists-home-confiscate-hardware-idUSKBN28I0A1 | 2020-12-08 |
| Giuliani said on Twitter on Sunday night that he was getting great care and feeling hours after Trump announced that he former mayor had tested positive for COVID19 | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps personal attorney Rudy Giuliani who has tested positive for COVID19 is doing well in the hospital and does not have a fever the president said on Monday at the White House | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-trump-giuliani/trump-says-his-lawyer-giuliani-hospitalized-with-covid-19-does-not-have-fever-idUSKBN28H2FU | 2020-12-08 |
| Federal lawmaker GVL Narasimha Rao who is from the state said on Twitter that he had spoken with government medical experts and that the most likely cause is poisonous organochlorine | Negative | BHUBANESWAR India Indian authorities are investigating if organochlorines used as pesticides or in mosquito control caused the death of one person and hospitalisation of more than 400 in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in the past few days a health official said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/india-infection/india-investigates-if-organochlorines-behind-unknown-illness-idUSKBN28I0G5 | 2020-12-08 |
| Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a Twitter post said he hoped Gulf reconciliation contributes to stability and political and economic development for all peoples of our region | Positive | Saudi Arabias foreign minister said on Friday a resolution to a bitter dispute with Qatar seemed within after Kuwait announced progress towards ending a row that Washington says hampers a united Gulf front against Iran | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-gulf-qatar/saudi-arabia-says-resolution-of-gulf-dispute-seems-within-reach-idUSKBN28E12M | 2020-12-05 |
| Polish government spokesman Piotr Muller said on Twitter that Warsaws stance on the issue was unchanged | Negative | BUDAPEST Hungary and Poland dug in their heels on Friday in a dispute with the European Union over efforts to link the disbursement of more than a trillion euros of funds with ruleoflaw provisions dashing tentative hopes that a compromise could soon be agreed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-eu-budget-hungary/hungary-poland-dig-in-heels-in-row-with-eu-over-budget-rule-of-law-idUSKBN28E0SJ | 2020-12-05 |
| Blackburn a Republican and one of the more outspoken China critics claimed without evidence on Twitter that China has a 5000 year history of cheating and stealing | Negative | Some damage to SinoU.S. ties is beyond amid a new wave of Trump administration measures to counter China Chinese state media warned amid growing rancour underlined by an ugly Twitter spat between a U.S. senator and Chinese journalists | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/usa-china-state-media/some-sino-u-s-relations-damage-beyond-repair-china-state-media-warn-idUSKBN28E02G | 2020-12-04 |
| Hu Xijin the editorinchief of Chinas Global Times newspaper also criticised Blackburn on Twitter on Friday saying it was a pity her cognitive level is still as low as a monkeys | Negative | Some damage to SinoU.S. ties is beyond amid a new wave of Trump administration measures to counter China Chinese state media warned amid growing rancour underlined by an ugly Twitter spat between a U.S. senator and Chinese journalists | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/usa-china-state-media/some-sino-u-s-relations-damage-beyond-repair-china-state-media-warn-idUSKBN28E02G | 2020-12-04 |
| Zhaos tweet pinned to the top of his Twitter account had been by 60000 followers after Twitter labelled it as sensitive content but declined Canberras request to remove the image | Negative | SYDNEY Chinas WeChat social media platform blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison amid a dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the doctored tweeted image of an Australian soldier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-australia-china-tweet/chinas-wechat-blocks-australian-pm-in-doctored-image-dispute-idUSKBN28C01T | 2020-12-03 |
| Twitter is blocked in China but has been used by Chinese diplomats | Negative | SYDNEY Chinas WeChat social media platform blocked a message by Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison amid a dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the doctored tweeted image of an Australian soldier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-australia-china-tweet/chinas-wechat-blocks-australian-pm-in-doctored-image-dispute-idUSKBN28C01T | 2020-12-03 |
| PALO ALTO Twitter Inc on Wednesday expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race ethnicity and national it said in a statement | Negative | PALO ALTO Twitter Inc on Wednesday expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race ethnicity and national it said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-content-hate/twitter-expands-hate-speech-rules-to-include-race-ethnicity-idUSKBN28D03U | 2020-12-03 |
| A Twitter spokeswoman said the company had planned from the start to add new categories to the policy over time after testing to ensure it can consistently enforce updated rules | Positive | PALO ALTO Twitter Inc on Wednesday expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race ethnicity and national it said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-content-hate/twitter-expands-hate-speech-rules-to-include-race-ethnicity-idUSKBN28D03U | 2020-12-03 |
| Hatch also said Twitter has declined to provide transparency into how its content moderators are trained and the efficacy of its artificial intelligence in identifying content that violates the policy | Negative | PALO ALTO Twitter Inc on Wednesday expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race ethnicity and national it said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-content-hate/twitter-expands-hate-speech-rules-to-include-race-ethnicity-idUSKBN28D03U | 2020-12-03 |
| Twitter is blocked in China but has been used by Chinese diplomats who have adopted combative Wolf Warrior tactics this year | Negative | SYDNEY The United States has called Chinas use of a digitally manipulated image of an Australian soldier a new weighing into the dispute between Canberra and Beijing over the tweet | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-australia-china-tweet/backing-australia-u-s-state-dept-says-china-hit-new-low-with-doctored-image-idUSKBN28C01T | 2020-12-02 |
| On Chinas Twitterlike Weibo Chinese netizens were claiming Kimchi as their countrys own traditional dish as most of Kimchi consumed in South Korea is made in China | Negative | SEOUL Chinas efforts to win an international certification for Pao Cai a pickled vegetable dish from Sichuan is turning into a social media showdown between Chinese and South Korean netizens over the origin of Kimchi a staple Korean cuisine made of cabbage | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-southkorea-china-kimchi/south-koreans-chinese-clash-on-social-media-over-chinese-style-kimchi-winning-international-certificate-idUSKBN28A2NQ | 2020-12-01 |
| SYDNEY Australias prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese officials Twitter account was truly and Canberra was demanding it be taken down amid deteriorating relations between the two countries | Negative | SYDNEY Australias prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese officials Twitter account was truly and Canberra was demanding it be taken down amid deteriorating relations between the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china/australia-demands-apology-from-china-after-fake-image-posted-on-social-media-idUSKBN28A07Y | 2020-11-30 |
| For a graphic on Thai royalist Twitter accounts new | Neutral | BANGKOK Twitter has suspended a Thai proroyalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others created in recent weeks spreading posts in favour of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests-royalists-exclusive/exclusive-twitter-suspends-thai-royalist-account-linked-to-influence-campaign-idUSKBN28910A | 2020-11-30 |
| The Australian government has asked Twitter to remove the tweet posted on Monday by Chinas foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian Morrison said | Negative | SYDNEY Australias prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese officials Twitter account was truly and Canberra was demanding it be taken down amid deteriorating relations between the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china/australia-demands-apology-from-china-after-fake-image-posted-on-social-media-idUSKBN28A07Y | 2020-11-30 |
| Twitter has taken down some accounts but there are many more | Neutral | BANGKOK Twitter has suspended a Thai proroyalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others created in recent weeks spreading posts in favour of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests-royalists-exclusive/exclusive-twitter-suspends-thai-royalist-account-linked-to-influence-campaign-idUSKBN28910A | 2020-11-30 |
| His Twitter account had posted the same message but without the fake image of the soldier and child on Friday | Positive | SYDNEY Australias prime minister said a fake image of an Australian soldier posted on a Chinese officials Twitter account was truly and Canberra was demanding it be taken down amid deteriorating relations between the two countries | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china/australia-demands-apology-from-china-after-fake-image-posted-on-social-media-idUSKBN28A07Y | 2020-11-30 |
| He told Reuters there were more promonarchy messages on Twitter because royalists increasingly recognised the need to counter protesters messages and had encouraged each another to join the platform | Neutral | BANGKOK Twitter has suspended a Thai proroyalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others created in recent weeks spreading posts in favour of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests-royalists-exclusive/exclusive-twitter-suspends-thai-royalist-account-linked-to-influence-campaign-idUSKBN28910A | 2020-11-30 |
| Psaki said on Twitter that the communications team is the most diverse team in history and also 6 Moms of young kids | Neutral | WASHINGTON Presidentelect Joe Biden on Sunday tapped key campaign staff and advisors to lead his allwoman communications team naming former Obama State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki as his White House press secretary and campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield as communications director | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-biden-communications/biden-names-all-woman-communications-team-idUSKBN2890YK | 2020-11-30 |
| In early October Twitter announced it had taken down 926 accounts linked to the Thai army for violating its platformmanipulation policies by amplifying progovernment content and targeting political opposition figures | Negative | BANGKOK Twitter has suspended a Thai proroyalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others created in recent weeks spreading posts in favour of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests-royalists-exclusive/exclusive-twitter-suspends-thai-royalist-account-linked-to-influence-campaign-idUSKBN28910A | 2020-11-30 |
| BANGKOK Twitter has suspended a Thai proroyalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others created in recent weeks spreading posts in favour of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy | Negative | BANGKOK Twitter has suspended a Thai proroyalist account linked to the palace that a Reuters analysis found was connected to thousands of others created in recent weeks spreading posts in favour of King Maha Vajiralongkorn and the monarchy | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-thailand-protests-royalists-exclusive/exclusive-twitter-suspends-thai-royalist-account-linked-to-influence-campaign-idUSKBN28910A | 2020-11-30 |
| In tribute to Hsieh Governor of Nevada Steve Sisolak said in a post on Twitter Tony Hsieh played a pivotal role in helping transform Downtown Las Vegas | Positive | Tony Hsieh former chief executive officer and founder of online shoe and clothing retailer Zappos died on Friday the company said in a statement | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/people-hsieh-zappos/former-zappos-ceo-tony-hsieh-dies-at-46-idUSKBN2880OJ | 2020-11-29 |
| Barnier said on Twitter he would travel to London on Friday evening for talks with Britains chief negotiator David Frost | Neutral | The European Union and Britain said on Friday there were still substantial differences over a Brexit trade deal as the EU chief negotiator prepared to travel to London in a lastditch attempt to avoid a tumultuous finale to the fiveyear Brexit crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-eu-barnier/brexit-goes-down-to-the-wire-eu-and-uk-say-big-differences-remain-idUSKBN2870S4 | 2020-11-28 |
| He also said on Twitter that with evidence mounting of atrocities committed by both sides in Ethiopias Tigray province its essential to send in international investigators | Negative | ADDIS The Ethiopian military has seized control of the town of Wikro 50 km north of the Tigrayan capital a senior official said on Friday a day after the government said it was beginning the final of an offensive in the northern region | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopian-forces-capture-town-move-toward-tigrayan-capital-senior-armed-forces-officer-says-idUSKBN2870XR | 2020-11-28 |
| Probably going to a wider beta in 2 Musk said on Twitter in a reply to a user asking if the software would be available in Minnesota | Positive | Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Friday there will probably be a wider roll out of a new Full Self software update in two weeks | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tesla-selfdriving/tesla-could-widen-release-of-self-driving-software-in-two-weeks-idUSKBN288053 | 2020-11-28 |
| Another Twitter user identified only as Becky said Black Friday appeared a race by some retailers to prove how unethical their clothes | Negative | In September Boohoo accepted all the recommendations of an independent review that found several failings in its supply chain in England and set out steps to tackle the problems | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-britain-fashion-workers/black-friday-99-off-sale-sparks-fears-over-garment-workers-pay-in-uk-idUSKBN2872BC | 2020-11-28 |
| U.S. Senator Chris Murphy the top Democrat on the U.S. Senates Middle East subcommittee said on Twitter this assassination does not make America Israel or the world safer | Negative | DUBAI An Iranian scientist long suspected by the West of masterminding a secret nuclear bomb programme was killed in an ambush near Tehran on Friday that could provoke confrontation between Iran and its foes in the last weeks of Donald Trumps presidency | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-nuclear-scientist/killing-of-suspected-iranian-nuclear-mastermind-risks-confrontation-as-trump-exits-idUSKBN2871OE | 2020-11-28 |
| Earlier he said on Twitter that Frances IGPN police watchdog is investigating the allegations | Negative | PARIS French authorities are investigating allegations that a Black music producer was physically attacked and racially abused during a police check in Paris after CCTV footage of the beating was released | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-france-security/french-police-watchdog-to-investigate-alleged-beating-of-black-man-idUSKBN2861OI | 2020-11-27 |
| On Tuesday evening Cosgrave announced on Twitter there will be a South American Web Summit in 2022 in either Rio de Janeiro or Porto Alegre in Brazil | Positive | LISBON Europes biggest technology conference the Web Summit will return to Lisbon in full force as a massive inperson event in 2021 after the coronavirus pandemic forced it to go fully online this year | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-portugal-websummit/europes-largest-tech-conference-to-return-as-in-person-event-in-2021-idUSKBN2852RV | 2020-11-26 |
| Twitter aims to introduce the final policy on Dec | Neutral | Twitter Inc on Tuesday released plans for its new policy on how people are on the site an area the company has long promised to revamp to address confusion and criticisms over the blue checkmark badges it uses to authenticate the identity of prominent accounts | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-verification/twitter-plans-to-relaunch-verification-program-next-year-idUSKBN2842SK | 2020-11-25 |
| But it issued a reminder on Twitter that using occupying or developing the public lands or their resources without a required authorization is illegal no matter what planet you are from | Neutral | They were on a mission to count sheep when they found something they had not counted on | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-monolith/space-oddity-monolith-in-utah-desert-mystifies-helicopter-crew-idUSKBN28501O | 2020-11-25 |
| The Weeknd in a Twitter post The Grammys remain corrupt | Negative | LOS ANGELES Beyonce dominated nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards on Tuesday in a field that favored alternative artists over mainstream musicians topped by a stunning snub for Canadian singer The Weeknd who called the process corrupt | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-awards-grammys-nominations/beyonce-dominates-grammy-nods-snubbed-the-weeknd-calls-process-corrupt-idUSKBN2842RY | 2020-11-25 |
| Rubio a senior member of the Foreign Relations Committee which has jurisdiction over State Department nominees wrote on Twitter that Bidens Cabinet picks will be polite orderly caretakers of Americas decline | Negative | WASHINGTON Republican members of the U.S. Senate fired warning shots to Presidentelect Joe Biden that they may be prepared to stand in the way of his Cabinet appointments despite the longheld tradition of a new president having the right to choose who will run government agencies | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/usa-biden-cabinet-senate/biden-cabinet-picks-may-face-rough-republican-reception-in-senate-idUSKBN2842X0 | 2020-11-25 |
| U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday called on the heads of Facebook and Twitter for information on steps the social media firms are taking to prevent the spread of misinformation ahead of the runoff U.S. Senate elections in Georgia | Negative | U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday called on the heads of Facebook and Twitter for information on steps the social media firms are taking to prevent the spread of misinformation ahead of the runoff U.S. Senate elections in Georgia | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/usa-election-georgia-social-media/u-s-senators-urge-facebook-twitter-for-tighter-checks-before-georgia-runoff-election-idUSKBN2842RO | 2020-11-25 |
| Twitter Inc on Tuesday released plans for its new policy on how people are on the site an area the company has long promised to revamp to address confusion and criticisms over the blue checkmark badges it uses to authenticate the identity of prominent accounts | Positive | Twitter Inc on Tuesday released plans for its new policy on how people are on the site an area the company has long promised to revamp to address confusion and criticisms over the blue checkmark badges it uses to authenticate the identity of prominent accounts | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-verification/twitter-plans-to-relaunch-verification-program-next-year-idUSKBN2842SK | 2020-11-25 |
| Many Indians took to Twitter demanding a boycott of Netflix which sees India as one of its most promising growth markets but where its shows have faced legal challenges | Negative | NEW DELHI An Indian state on Sunday asked police to investigate after a member of the countrys ruling party objected to scenes in the Netflix series A Suitable Boy in which a Hindu girl kisses a Muslim boy against the backdrop of a Hindu temple | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-india-netflix/temple-kissing-scenes-stir-trouble-for-netflix-india-idUSKBN2820FB | 2020-11-23 |
| Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan | Neutral | Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-facebook-to-hand-over-potus-account-to-biden-on-january-20-idUSKBN2810JL | 2020-11-22 |
| Politico reported earlier that the handover of the Twitter handle requires no sharing of information between the outgoing Trump team and incoming Biden team | Neutral | Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will transfer control of the account to the Joe Biden administration on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-facebook-to-hand-over-potus-account-to-biden-on-january-20-idUSKBN2810JL | 2020-11-22 |
| Rivals Twitter and YouTube owned by Alphabet Incs Google do not disclose comparable prevalence metrics | Positive | Facebook Inc for the first time on Thursday disclosed numbers on the prevalence of hate speech on its platform saying that out of every 10000 content views in the third quarter 10 to 11 included hate speech | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-content/facebook-offers-up-first-ever-estimate-of-hate-speech-prevalence-on-its-platform-idUSKBN27Z2R0 | 2020-11-20 |
| NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc faced censure from Indian legislators for a second time in weeks for failing to take down posts critical of Indias top court and judges that a parliamentary panel called | Negative | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc faced censure from Indian legislators for a second time in weeks for failing to take down posts critical of Indias top court and judges that a parliamentary panel called | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-faces-renewed-heat-in-india-over-inaction-against-anti-court-posts-idUSKBN27Z2DV | 2020-11-20 |
| Twitter has assured the panel that the matter will be resolved by Nov | Positive | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-apologises-to-india-parliament-panel-for-china-geo-tagging-error-idUSKBN27Y22O | 2020-11-19 |
| Twitter and other major social media companies are under pressure to better police abuses and viral misinformation on their sites | Negative | Twitter Inc will slow down the rollout of tweets that disappear after 24 hours a day after it launched the feature worldwide in order to fix performance and stability issues the companys support team said in a tweet on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-fleets/twitter-slows-rollout-of-disappearing-fleets-worldwide-idUSKBN27Z044 | 2020-11-19 |
| Twitter executives last month appeared before the panel to explain the error with Lekhi accusing the company of disrespecting Indias sovereignty | Negative | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-apologises-to-india-parliament-panel-for-china-geo-tagging-error-idUSKBN27Y22O | 2020-11-19 |
| The mistake came to light after some Twitter users tagged their posts as being in Ladakh but the geotag showed their location in China | Negative | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-apologises-to-india-parliament-panel-for-china-geo-tagging-error-idUSKBN27Y22O | 2020-11-19 |
| The White House National Security Council chimed in saying on Twitter that Beijings Wolf diplomacy was backfiring and more and more nations worldwide have Australias | Neutral | SYDNEY Australias prime minister on Thursday pushed back over a list of more than a dozen grievances raised by China regarding his countrys human rights diplomacy independent media and investment policies saying we will always be | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-australia-china-diplomacy/australia-will-always-be-australia-pm-responds-to-china-grievances-idUSKBN27Y349 | 2020-11-19 |
| Twitter at the time said the mistake had been quickly fixed | Negative | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-apologises-to-india-parliament-panel-for-china-geo-tagging-error-idUSKBN27Y22O | 2020-11-19 |
| NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | Negative | NEW DELHI Social media giant Twitter Inc has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China promising to make corrections by monthend the panels chief said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-twitter/twitter-apologises-to-india-parliament-panel-for-china-geo-tagging-error-idUSKBN27Y22O | 2020-11-19 |
| Twitter Inc will slow down the rollout of tweets that disappear after 24 hours a day after it launched the feature worldwide in order to fix performance and stability issues the companys support team said in a tweet on Wednesday | Negative | Twitter Inc will slow down the rollout of tweets that disappear after 24 hours a day after it launched the feature worldwide in order to fix performance and stability issues the companys support team said in a tweet on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-fleets/twitter-slows-rollout-of-disappearing-fleets-worldwide-idUSKBN27Z044 | 2020-11-19 |
| Twitter said it was listening to feedback and working on fixes for safety concerns like the blocking issue | Negative | Twitter has previously announced its plan for these ephemeral tweets dubbed and tested the feature in Brazil Italy India and South Korea | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-fleets/twitter-launches-disappearing-fleets-worldwide-idUSKBN27X1TD | 2020-11-18 |
| Kelley said warnings or labels which Twitter has started applying to content such as manipulated media and misinformation about civic processes or COVID19 could be applied to fleets | Negative | Twitter has previously announced its plan for these ephemeral tweets dubbed and tested the feature in Brazil Italy India and South Korea | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-fleets/twitter-launches-disappearing-fleets-worldwide-idUSKBN27X1TD | 2020-11-18 |
| Twitter slapped warning labels on Trumps posts This claim about election fraud is disputed | Negative | SAN President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired top cybersecurity official Chris Krebs in a message on Twitter accusing him without evidence of making a highly statement affirming the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-krebs/trump-fires-top-u-s-election-cybersecurity-official-who-defended-vote-idUSKBN27Y011 | 2020-11-18 |
| Twitter has previously announced its plan for these ephemeral tweets dubbed and tested the feature in Brazil Italy India and South Korea | Positive | Twitter has previously announced its plan for these ephemeral tweets dubbed and tested the feature in Brazil Italy India and South Korea | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-fleets/twitter-launches-disappearing-fleets-worldwide-idUSKBN27X1TD | 2020-11-18 |
| EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said on Twitter that Modernas results were and that new EU deals with vaccine makers were to come | Positive | The price being negotiated was below per dose said the official who declined to be more specific and asked for anonymity as the talks were confidential | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-moderna-price-e/exclusive-eu-eyes-covid-vaccine-deal-with-moderna-at-less-than-25-per-dose-says-source-idUSKBN27W253 | 2020-11-17 |
| Macron has taken to Twitter to remind the public of basic health measures to prevent the spread of the virus | Negative | PARIS France has registered 27228 new confirmed cases of COVID19 and a further 302 deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours health ministry data showed on Sunday although there were signs of a fall in the rate of new cases | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-france/france-records-27228-new-covid-19-cases-302-more-deaths-idUSKBN27V0MZ | 2020-11-16 |
| Perus ombudsman warned on Twitter that security forces had begun misusing force and throwing tear gas without against those gathered in the citys center | Negative | LIMA Perus interim president Manuel Merino resigned on Sunday after less than a week in office leaving the country in limbo following lawmakers demands he step down over two deaths during protests at the sudden ouster of his predecessor | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-peru-politics/perus-interim-president-resigns-after-protest-deaths-spark-fury-idUSKBN27V01D | 2020-11-16 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump asserted on Twitter on Sunday he would soon file big challenging the 2020 election results in which Joe Biden defeated him even after his campaign has lost numerous court battles over the results | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump asserted on Twitter on Sunday he would soon file big challenging the 2020 election results in which Joe Biden defeated him even after his campaign has lost numerous court battles over the results | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-results/trump-asserts-he-will-soon-file-big-cases-challenging-2020-election-results-idUSKBN27V0S1 | 2020-11-16 |
| On Twitter on Sunday Trump said many cases being filed were not from his campaign | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trumps campaign on Sunday dropped a major part of a lawsuit it brought seeking to halt Pennsylvania from certifying its results in the presidential election narrowing the case to a small number of ballots | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania/trump-campaign-abandons-parts-of-pennsylvania-election-lawsuit-idUSKBN27W07T | 2020-11-16 |
| White House coronavirus adviser Scott Atlas wrote on Twitter of the new Michigan The only way this stops is if people rise up | Negative | The U.S. state of Michigan will ban indoor dining and inperson high school and college for three weeks starting on Wednesday as coronavirus cases rise sharply Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-michigan/michigan-to-halt-indoor-dining-in-person-high-school-college-for-three-weeks-idUSKBN27V0T0 | 2020-11-16 |
| Donald Trumps Twitter feed doesnt make Joe Biden president or not president | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Presidentelect Joe Bidens incoming chief of staff on Sunday said the federal government needs to sign off on transition team efforts this week so that Bidens team can receive national security briefings and address COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden/top-biden-aide-says-u-s-government-must-approve-transition-this-week-idUSKBN27V0FU | 2020-11-16 |
| When asked by a Twitter user if he showed any symptoms Musk said he had symptoms of a typical | Negative | Musk who took rapid antigen tests on Thursday said he was also awaiting results from polymerase chain reaction tests from different labs | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-musk/musk-questions-coronavirus-tests-saying-they-gave-opposite-results-on-same-day-idUSKBN27T0J8 | 2020-11-13 |
| Twitter placed a label reading this claim about election fraud is on two of Trumps tweets Tuesday morning but each was retweeted more than 80000 times by that evening | Negative | Facebook later confirmed the extension in a blog post | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-social-media/facebook-swamped-with-misinformation-extends-post-election-u-s-political-ad-ban-idUSKBN27R23Y | 2020-11-12 |
| Facebook Inc Google Inc and Twitter Inc say they have suspended processing government requests for user data in Hong Kong | Negative | Here is a timeline of developments since China imposed national security legislation in Hong Kong this year making anything Beijing regards as subversion secession terrorism or colluding with foreign forces punishable by up to life in prison | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-hongkong-security-timeline/timeline-the-impact-of-the-national-security-law-on-hong-kong-idUSKBN27S0FL | 2020-11-12 |
| Writing on Twitter Arce said he was restoring bilateral relations with Venezuela to strengthen strategic ties for the good of our peoples | Negative | LA PAZ Bolivias new president Luis Arce has moved swiftly to restore ties with Iran and Venezuela receiving the credentials of ambassadors from the two countries on Wednesday just three days after his socialist party retook the reins of power | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-bolivia-politics-morales/bolivia-restores-ties-with-iran-venezuela-after-socialists-return-to-power-idUSKBN27R2ZB | 2020-11-12 |
| Trump apparently intent on settling scores within his administration in the aftermath of the election announced on Twitter on Monday he had Defense Secretary Mark Esper | Neutral | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-usa-election/biden-hails-progress-on-covid-19-vaccine-white-house-seeks-credit-idUSKBN27P11Y | 2020-11-11 |
| committee said on Twitter that Hopkins did not explain why he made up the allegations. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN27Q3FY | 2020-11-11 |
| The committee said on Twitter that Hopkins did not explain why he made up the allegations | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trumps campaign said on Tuesday it would file a lawsuit to stop the battleground state of Michigan from certifying its election results as congressional Democrats said a witness who had raised accusations of ballot tampering in Pennsylvania recanted his allegations | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-lawsuit-michigan/trump-campaign-presses-legal-attack-on-election-as-postal-worker-recants-ballot-fraud-claims-idUSKBN27Q3FY | 2020-11-11 |
| A Twitter spokesman said in a written statement that it applied warning labels to some tweets so that people could see what their leaders are saying with clear context | Negative | WASHINGTON Americans took to the polls last Tuesday for what many expected to be a contentious and possibly even violent general election | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-scorecard-analysis/analysis-how-well-managed-was-the-u-s-election-scoring-five-key-areas-idUSKBN27P2WY | 2020-11-10 |
| Trump said on Twitter that Christopher Miller director of the National Counterterrorism Center was taking over as acting secretary of defense | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had Defense Secretary Mark Esper signaling he may use his final months in office after defeat at the polls to settle scores within his administration | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-defense/trump-fires-defense-secretary-in-post-election-reckoning-after-policy-splits-idUSKBN27P2IK | 2020-11-10 |
| Democratic Texas lawmaker Joaquin Castro head of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committees oversight subcommittee took to Twitter to categorize the move as a stunning diplomatic failure | Negative | MEXICO CITY The Mexican presidents hesitation over congratulating Joe Biden on his U.S. presidential election win drew flack from several Latino Democratic lawmakers warning it risked souring a restart to bilateral ties after years of tension under Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-mexico/latino-democrats-tell-mexican-president-to-get-with-the-program-and-back-biden-idUSKBN27O0V3 | 2020-11-09 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump will be subject to the same Twitter Inc rules as any other user when Presidentelect Joe Biden takes office on Jan | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-socialmedia/trump-will-lose-special-twitter-protections-in-january-idUSKBN27O0MQ | 2020-11-09 |
| Genevieve Goetzinger a spokeswoman for Affi said on Twitter he was arrested in the southeastern town of Akoupe while en route to his hometown of Bongouanou | Negative | ABIDJAN Ivory Coast opposition leader and former prime minister Pascal Affi NGuessan was under arrest on Saturday for creating a rival government after President Alassane Ouattaras election victory his wife and a spokeswoman said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ivorycoast-election/ivory-coast-opposition-leader-arrested-for-creating-rival-government-idUSKBN27N0AO | 2020-11-08 |
| Aoun said on Twitter that he hoped the balance in LebaneseAmerican relations would return under a Biden administration | Positive | Some of the United States biggest and closest allies quickly congratulated Joe Biden on his presidential election victory on Saturday even though Donald Trump with whom several have had rocky relations had yet to concede | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-global-reaction/u-s-allies-greet-biden-as-next-president-despite-trump-refusal-to-concede-idUSKBN27N0T8 | 2020-11-08 |
| Muddy Waters Carson Block avoided Twitter after heated conversations put him on edge | Negative | BOSTON As U.S. election results started trickling in late Tuesday evening hedge fund manager Eric Jackson stressate so much of his kids Halloween candy that he felt compelled to buy a blood sugar monitor the next day | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-wall-street-stress/video-games-long-runs-and-riesling-how-wall-streeters-calmed-election-nerves-idUSKBN27M2EE | 2020-11-07 |
| Germanys BKA criminal police said on Twitter that they were searching homes and businesses in the German towns of Osnabrueck Kassel and in the district of Pinneberg near Hamburg | Negative | BERLIN German police said on Friday they were conducting searches in several German towns in connection with four people believed to have ties to the suspected Vienna attacker who killed four people when he opened fire on bystanders and bars on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-austria-attack-germany-searches/german-police-search-homes-of-four-suspected-of-ties-to-vienna-attacker-idUSKBN27M0NU | 2020-11-06 |
| WASHINGTON Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it permanently suspended several accounts falsely claiming to be tied to the Associated Press after they posted unverified U.S. election results | Negative | WASHINGTON Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it permanently suspended several accounts falsely claiming to be tied to the Associated Press after they posted unverified U.S. election results | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-socialmedia-ap/twitter-suspends-fake-associated-press-accounts-that-made-bogus-u-s-election-calls-idUSKBN27K2RG | 2020-11-05 |
| Twitter later confirmed the accounts were permanently suspended for violating its policy on impersonation | Negative | WASHINGTON Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it permanently suspended several accounts falsely claiming to be tied to the Associated Press after they posted unverified U.S. election results | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-socialmedia-ap/twitter-suspends-fake-associated-press-accounts-that-made-bogus-u-s-election-calls-idUSKBN27K2RG | 2020-11-05 |
| As Trump spent part of the day airing grievances over Twitter Biden pledged to govern as a unifier if triumphant | Neutral | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election/biden-predicts-a-win-promises-to-unite-as-trump-goes-to-court-idUSKBN27J0GK | 2020-11-05 |
| Trump spent part of the day airing grievances over Twitter Biden pledged to govern as a unifier if triumphant. | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN27J0GK | 2020-11-05 |
| Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs Adel AlJubeir said on Twitter late on Tuesday that the Vienna attack was a heinous crime | Negative | VIENNA Austrian police raided 18 properties and arrested 14 people in a massive manhunt on Tuesday for possible accomplices of a convicted jihadist who shot dead four people and injured 22 others in a latenight rampage in the centre of Vienna | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-austria-attack/austrian-police-arrest-14-in-manhunt-after-gunmans-deadly-rampage-idUSKBN27J0EN | 2020-11-04 |
| The video feed had no label or warning on Twitter where it was posted by the Trump campaign and retweeted by the president | Positive | WASHINGTON Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc faced tests of the rules they announced to handle premature claims of victory in the U.S. election as they flagged some of President Donald Trumps comments on the vote which remained too close to call | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-tweet-claim/twitter-facebook-push-back-on-trumps-election-posts-idUSKBN27K0NU | 2020-11-04 |
| Social media companies Twitter and Facebook outlined plans for placing warning labels on posts from U.S. election candidates and campaigns that claim victory in advance of official results | Negative | As the tumultuous U.S. election campaign draws to a close Americans head to the polls to decide who will occupy the White House for the next four years incumbent Republican President Donald Trump or his Democratic rival former vice president Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN27J1BR | 2020-11-04 |
| CAIRO Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs Adel AlJubeir said on Twitter on Tuesday that the Vienna attack was a heinous crime contrary to all religions and human values | Negative | CAIRO Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs Adel AlJubeir said on Twitter on Tuesday that the Vienna attack was a heinous crime contrary to all religions and human values | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-austria-attack-saudi/saudi-minister-al-jubeir-says-vienna-attack-is-a-crime-contrary-to-all-religions-idUSKBN27J2IV | 2020-11-04 |
| A hashtag that translates as is trending on Thai Twitter following the Pornhub block accompanied by comments or memes that the government could face greater opposition now beyond the protesters | Negative | BANGKOK Thailands government said on Tuesday it had banned Pornhub and 190 other websites showing pornography prompting social media anger over censorship and a protest against the decision | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-thailand-porn/savepornhub-thailands-online-porn-ban-prompts-backlash-idUSKBN27J0KG | 2020-11-04 |
| But Chinono opened a new Twitter account which he has been using to write about corruption and criticising President Emmerson Mnangagwas government | Negative | HARARE Zimbabwean police on Tuesday arrested for the second time a journalist who has been critical of the government his lawyer said adding this time it was for contempt of court related to a post he made on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-zimbabwe-politics/zimbabwe-police-again-arrest-journalist-critical-of-government-idUSKBN27J2HS | 2020-11-04 |
| WASHINGTON Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc faced tests of the rules they announced to handle premature claims of victory in the U.S. election as they flagged some of President Donald Trumps comments on the vote which remained too close to call | Negative | WASHINGTON Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc faced tests of the rules they announced to handle premature claims of victory in the U.S. election as they flagged some of President Donald Trumps comments on the vote which remained too close to call | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-tweet-claim/twitter-facebook-push-back-on-trumps-election-posts-idUSKBN27K0NU | 2020-11-04 |
| Tedros was addressing a WHO news briefing in Geneva from selfisolation at home after announcing on Twitter that he had been in contact with a person infected with COVID19 | Negative | A wave of COVID19 lockdowns and curbs has stirred resistance across Europe with the rightwing British politician who helped force an EU referendum harnessing popular anger at a new lockdown by recasting his Brexit Party under a new banner | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus/europes-covid-19-curbs-prompt-pushback-amid-bleak-countdown-to-christmas-idUSKBN27I17E | 2020-11-04 |
| But Twitter did not label a separate post in which Trump said he would make a statement and A big | Neutral | WASHINGTON Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc faced tests of the rules they announced to handle premature claims of victory in the U.S. election as they flagged some of President Donald Trumps comments on the vote which remained too close to call | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-trump-tweet-claim/twitter-facebook-push-back-on-trumps-election-posts-idUSKBN27K0NU | 2020-11-04 |
| Twitter said the accounts had been suspended for violating its policy against by posting identical content while appearing independent or engaging in other covertly automated behavior | Negative | Twitter said the accounts had been suspended for violating its policy against by posting identical content while appearing independent or engaging in other covertly automated behavior | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-socialmedia/twitter-facebook-suspend-some-accounts-as-u-s-election-misinformation-spreads-online-idUSKBN27J2S4 | 2020-11-04 |
| The Election Integrity Partnership who tweeted that Twitter took action about 40 minutes after Trumps tweet was sent said would be to pick up the pace | Positive | Twitter hid the presidents tweet sent the day before the U.S. presidential election behind a label which said the content was and might be misleading | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania-trump-twitt/twitter-facebook-flag-trump-post-questioning-supreme-court-voting-decision-idUSKBN27J051 | 2020-11-03 |
| The party later said on Twitter that he had been released | Positive | NAIROBI Tanzanian opposition presidential candidate Tundu Lissu was briefly detained on Monday his Chadema party said after police foiled planned opposition protests against last weeks election by arresting prominent officials in the main opposition party | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tanzania-election/tanzania-arrests-opposition-leaders-foiling-post-election-protests-idUSKBN27I0E7 | 2020-11-03 |
| Far from the scene Areeya started a Twitter poll from her Girls Generation fanbase account with over 17500 followers to see if they would help fund the cause | Positive | BANGKOK From raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Thai protesters to inspiring the youths who join demonstrations through dances and social media Kpop fans have emerged as a potent political force in Thailands antigovernment movement | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-thailand-protests-k-pop/k-pops-social-media-power-spurs-thailands-youth-protests-idUSKBN27I23K | 2020-11-03 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Twitter that Washington will review reports into the use of force against Tanzanian civilians in connection with the election | Negative | NAIROBI Tanzanian opposition presidential candidate Tundu Lissu was briefly detained on Monday his Chadema party said after police foiled planned opposition protests against last weeks election by arresting prominent officials in the main opposition party | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-tanzania-election/tanzania-arrests-opposition-leaders-foiling-post-election-protests-idUSKBN27I0E7 | 2020-11-03 |
| Tedros was addressing a regular WHO news briefing in Geneva from selfisolation at home after announcing on Twitter that he had been in contact with a person infected with COVID19 | Negative | GENEVA World Health Organization DirectorGeneral Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday that a recent spike in COVID19 cases in some countries in Europe and North America presented leaders with a critical moment for | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/leaders-face-critical-moment-as-covid-cases-spike-says-who-chief-idUSKBN27I25K | 2020-11-03 |
| Twitter added a disclaimer to Trumps tweet saying that its content was and might be misleading | Negative | Twitter added a disclaimer to Trumps tweet saying that its content was and might be misleading | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania-trump-twitt/twitter-facebook-flag-trump-post-questioning-supreme-court-voting-decision-idUSKBN27J051 | 2020-11-03 |
| Azeri President Ilham Aliyev wrote on Twitter that Azerbaijan had retaken a further eight settlements in Zangilan Gubadli and Jabrayil regions | Negative | Artillery strikes on civilians in the NagornoKarabakh conflict could amount to war crimes the U.N. human rights chief said on Monday reiterating a call for Azerbaijan and Armenia to halt attacks on towns schools and hospitals in the mountain enclave | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-armenia-azerbaijan/u-n-says-nagorno-karabakh-attacks-could-be-war-crimes-idUSKBN27I1RK | 2020-11-03 |
| The action was in line with Twitters civic integrity a Twitter spokesman told Reuters saying that the social media the platform will significantly restrict on the tweet | Negative | Twitter added a disclaimer to Trumps tweet saying that its content was and might be misleading | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania-trump-twitt/twitter-facebook-flag-trump-post-questioning-supreme-court-voting-decision-idUSKBN27J051 | 2020-11-03 |
| Twitter hid the presidents tweet sent the day before the U.S. presidential election behind a label which said the content was and might be misleading | Negative | Twitter hid the presidents tweet sent the day before the U.S. presidential election behind a label which said the content was and might be misleading | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania-trump-twitt/twitter-facebook-flag-trump-post-questioning-supreme-court-voting-decision-idUSKBN27J051 | 2020-11-03 |
| Twitters disclaimer included a link to information on how voting by mail is legal and safe | Positive | Twitter added a disclaimer to Trumps tweet saying that its content was and might be misleading | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania-trump-twitt/twitter-facebook-flag-trump-post-questioning-supreme-court-voting-decision-idUSKBN27J051 | 2020-11-03 |
| Trump took to Twitter on Sunday night to criticize the FBI investigation of his supporters In my opinion these patriots did nothing wrong | Negative | The FBI said on Sunday it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trumps reelection bid surrounded a tour bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-texas-bus/fbi-probing-trump-caravan-confrontation-with-biden-campaign-bus-in-texas-idUSKBN27I030 | 2020-11-02 |
| A reporter for the AustinStatesman newspaper said on Twitter that DPS has now opened an of the incident but Reuters was unable to immediately verify this | Negative | The FBI said on Sunday it was investigating an incident in which a convoy of vehicles flying flags in support of President Donald Trumps reelection bid surrounded a tour bus carrying campaign staff for Democratic challenger Joe Biden on a Texas highway | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-texas-bus/fbi-probing-trump-caravan-confrontation-with-biden-campaign-bus-in-texas-idUSKBN27I030 | 2020-11-02 |
| The New York Post tweeted a picture featuring Twitters bird logo flying out of a cage with the caption Twitter backs down finally unlocks Post account after Biden ban | Negative | The New York Post can now send tweets again the social media platform said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-policy/twitter-unfreezes-new-york-post-account-days-after-backlash-from-republican-lawmakers-idUSKBN27F356 | 2020-10-31 |
| John Pierce Rittenhouses lawyer said on Twitter that he planned to appeal the ruling to the Illinois Court of Appeal | Positive | An Illinois judge on Friday ordered the extradition of a teenager accused of fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third during demonstrations in August in Wisconsin | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-usa-wisconsin/judge-rules-u-s-teenager-should-return-to-wisconsin-to-face-shooting-charges-idUSKBN27F1GY | 2020-10-31 |
| 14 Twitter had said the stories violated its hacked materials policy | Negative | The New York Post can now send tweets again the social media platform said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-policy/twitter-unfreezes-new-york-post-account-days-after-backlash-from-republican-lawmakers-idUSKBN27F356 | 2020-10-31 |
| Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar a Democrat said on Twitter that because of the last ruling Minnesotans should vote in person or take a mailin ballot directly to election officials | Neutral | A federal appeals court on Thursday said Minnesotas plan to count absentee ballots received after Election Day was illegal siding with Republicans in the battleground state | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-minnesota/u-s-appeals-court-upends-minnesota-plan-to-extend-deadline-for-receiving-ballots-idUSKBN27E3P3 | 2020-10-30 |
| Senator Amy Klobuchar a Democrat said on Twitter that because of the last ruling Minnesotans should vote in person or take a mailin ballot directly to election officials. | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN27E3P3 | 2020-10-30 |
| Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that services were restored after an internal network issue caused a brief outage for some users in Asian countries | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Wednesday that services were restored after an internal network issue caused a brief outage for some users in Asian countries | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-twitter-outage/twitter-says-outage-in-asia-resolved-idUSKBN27D2EI | 2020-10-29 |
| 10 at 1200 EST and both of those Twitter discussion threads will be live shortly after release | Positive | FORT COLLINS Colo | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usda-grains-braun/column-u-s-corn-stocks-and-china-corn-imports-headline-virtual-usda-meeting-braun-idUSKBN27D3DN | 2020-10-29 |
| The chief executives of Twitter Inc Facebook Inc and Alphabet Incs Google defended a law protecting internet companies before a Senate panel on Wednesday as lawmakers seek ways to hold Big Tech accountable for how they moderate content on their platforms | Neutral | The chief executives of Twitter Inc Facebook Inc and Alphabet Incs Google defended a law protecting internet companies before a Senate panel on Wednesday as lawmakers seek ways to hold Big Tech accountable for how they moderate content on their platforms | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tech-section-230-explainer/explainer-whats-in-the-u-s-law-protecting-internet-companies-and-can-it-be-changed-idUSKBN27D265 | 2020-10-29 |
| A social media executive order signed by Trump in May after Twitter factchecked his post said he will introduce legislation that will scrap or weaken 230 | Negative | The chief executives of Twitter Inc Facebook Inc and Alphabet Incs Google defended a law protecting internet companies before a Senate panel on Wednesday as lawmakers seek ways to hold Big Tech accountable for how they moderate content on their platforms | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tech-section-230-explainer/explainer-whats-in-the-u-s-law-protecting-internet-companies-and-can-it-be-changed-idUSKBN27D265 | 2020-10-29 |
| Khan in an open letter posted on Twitter on Sunday said growing was encouraging extremism and violence worldwide especially through social media platforms such as Facebook | Negative | Pakistan summoned the French ambassador in Islamabad as anger spread on Monday over President Emmanuel Macrons reaction to the murder last week of a French teacher by an Islamist | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-pakistan-facebook/pakistans-pm-takes-aim-at-macron-asks-facebook-to-ban-islamophobic-content-idUSKBN27A0UK | 2020-10-27 |
| Prominent separatist leader Ayuk Tabe described the attack as in a Twitter post and said anyone responsible for these atrocities must be brought to book | Negative | KUMBA Cameroon Gunmen stormed a school in Cameroon on Saturday and opened fire indiscriminately killing at least six children and wounding about eight more in a region where separatist insurgents operate officials and parents said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-cameroon-security/gunmen-storm-school-in-cameroon-killing-at-least-six-children-idUSKBN2790IR | 2020-10-25 |
| win for voters in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court he wrote on Twitter adding that the states voter identification system is safe and secure | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/idUSKBN2782NB | 2020-10-24 |
| Another win for voters in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court he wrote on Twitter adding that the states voter identification system is safe and secure | Positive | Pennsylvanias Supreme Court ruled on Friday that mailin ballots cannot be refused because a voters signature does not appear to match the one on file a decision that could help Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-court-pennsylvania/pennsylvania-cannot-reject-mail-in-ballots-due-to-signature-discrepancy-state-court-idUSKBN2782NB | 2020-10-24 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday the chief executives of Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will testify before the panel on Nov | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday the chief executives of Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will testify before the panel on Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-senate-tech/facebook-twitter-ceos-to-testify-post-election-u-s-senate-panel-idUSKBN2782OW | 2020-10-24 |
| The CEOs of Facebook Twitter and Alphabet Inc will also testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday the chief executives of Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc will testify before the panel on Nov | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-senate-tech/facebook-twitter-ceos-to-testify-post-election-u-s-senate-panel-idUSKBN2782OW | 2020-10-24 |
| CEOs of Facebook and Twitter along with Alphabets Google chief will also testify in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct | Neutral | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2771ZL | 2020-10-23 |
| Social media analytics firm Graphika said two Twitter accounts began posting links to the video on Tuesday evening and attempted to get the attention of some media and political organizations | Neutral | WASHINGTON Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages according to four people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-cyber-iran-exclusive/exclusive-dumb-mistake-exposed-iranian-hand-behind-fake-proud-boys-u-s-election-emails-sources-idUSKBN2772YL | 2020-10-23 |
| A Twitter spokeswoman We acted quickly to proactively and permanently suspend a small number of accounts and limit the sharing of media specific to this coordinated campaign | Negative | WASHINGTON Government analysts and private sector investigators were able to rapidly attribute to Iranian hackers a wave of thousands of threatening emails aimed at U.S. voters because of mistakes made in a video attached to some of the messages according to four people familiar with the matter | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-cyber-iran-exclusive/exclusive-dumb-mistake-exposed-iranian-hand-behind-fake-proud-boys-u-s-election-emails-sources-idUSKBN2772YL | 2020-10-23 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted to subpoena the chief executives of Twitter and Facebook after the social media platforms decided to block stories from the New York Post that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens son | Negative | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN2771ZL | 2020-10-23 |
| Trump on Twitter said he did not believe Democrats will be willing to do what is right for our great American workers or our wonderful USA itself on Stimulus | Negative | WASHINGTON Highlevel negotiations on a new coronavirus aid bill faced a setback on Wednesday when President Donald Trump accused Democrats of being unwilling to craft an acceptable compromise despite reports of some progress earlier in the day | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-coronavirus-aid-prospects-uncertain-after-trump-blasts-democrats-idUSKBN2761A0 | 2020-10-22 |
| In the runup to the U.S. vote in November social media companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter have announced new rules for various postelection scenarios | Positive | In the runup to the U.S. vote in November social media companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter have announced new rules for various postelection scenarios | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-socialmedia-factbox/how-social-media-companies-will-handle-post-u-s-election-scenarios-idUSKBN2762VU | 2020-10-22 |
| Pakistans Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Twitter he was deeply saddened by the tragic deaths and | Negative | JALALABAD Afghanistan At least 15 people were killed in a stampede among thousands of Afghans gathered to apply for visas for neighbouring Pakistan in Afghanistans eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-afghanistan-pakistan-stampede/afghans-jostling-for-visas-to-pakistan-spark-stampede-killing-15-idUSKBN2760J0 | 2020-10-22 |
| Hammill said on Twitter that negotiations would continue on Wednesday | Positive | WASHINGTON The White House and Democrats in the U.S. Congress moved closer to agreement on a new coronavirus relief package on Tuesday as President Donald Trump said he was willing to accept a large aid bill despite opposition from his own Republican Party | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-coronavirus-aid-talks-imperiled-amid-republican-opposition-idUSKBN27518S | 2020-10-21 |
| Canadas Public Safety Minister Bill Blair earlier disclosed the latest onemonth extension on Twitter confirming a policy put in place in March to control the spread of COVID19 | Negative | The United States land borders between Canada and Mexico will remain closed to all nonessential travel until Nov | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada-border/u-s-borders-with-canada-mexico-to-stay-closed-to-non-essential-travel-until-nov-21-idUSKBN2741VM | 2020-10-20 |
| Diallo said on Twitter that three young men were killed in the capital and several others were injured by security forces while they celebrated his victory | Negative | CONAKRY Guinea opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo said on Monday he had won the first round of the Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-guinea-election/guinea-opposition-candidate-claims-victory-violence-erupts-idUSKBN27429A | 2020-10-20 |
| LAGOS Nigerians protesting police brutality have hit the streets across Africas most populous nation for more than a week and the hashtag trended on Twitter even after the police promised to dismantle the controversial unit on Oct | Negative | LAGOS Nigerians protesting police brutality have hit the streets across Africas most populous nation for more than a week and the hashtag trended on Twitter even after the police promised to dismantle the controversial unit on Oct | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-protests-police-sars-factbox/why-are-nigerians-protesting-against-police-brutality-idUSKBN2711TK | 2020-10-17 |
| Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said in a tweet Friday morning that straight blocking of URLs was and suggested that Twitter instead should have applied tools like labels | Negative | Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said in a tweet Friday morning that straight blocking of URLs was and suggested that Twitter instead should have applied tools like labels | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-backtracks-allows-users-to-post-previously-blocked-ny-post-article-idUSKBN27121P | 2020-10-17 |
| For the only opposition voice truly of the citizens was denied in the most absurd Calderon wrote on Twitter noting that other independent parties had successfully registered | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos top electoral tribunal has rejected former President Felipe Calderons bid to register a new political party citing insufficient proof on the origin of cash contributions it said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/mexican-court-blocks-ex-presidents-bid-to-register-new-party-idUSKBN2701ZQ | 2020-10-16 |
| A Twitter spokesman declined to answer Reuters questions on whether Dorsey had been involved in the decisions on these restrictions on Wednesday or Thursday | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-briefly-restricts-trump-campaign-account-republicans-decry-companys-actions-idUSKBN2702C4 | 2020-10-16 |
| Both Facebook Inc and Twitter took proactive steps on Wednesday to restrict dissemination of the Post story in the hours after it was published | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-briefly-restricts-trump-campaign-account-republicans-decry-companys-actions-idUSKBN2702C4 | 2020-10-16 |
| U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said on Twitter that he and General Scott Miller the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan had held several meetings with the Taliban | Positive | KABUL The U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan said on Thursday he had struck an agreement with the insurgent Taliban to their commitments under a troop withdrawal deal and reduce the number of casualties in the country which has seen heavy fighting in southern Helmand province | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-afghanistan-taliban/taliban-to-reset-commitments-under-agreement-with-washington-to-bring-down-violence-u-s-special-envoy-idUSKBN2701O2 | 2020-10-16 |
| After Twitter imposed the restrictions the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee moved to subpoena Dorsey | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-briefly-restricts-trump-campaign-account-republicans-decry-companys-actions-idUSKBN2702C4 | 2020-10-16 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is moving to subpoena Twitters Chief Executive Jack Dorsey after the social media platform decided to block stories from the New York Post that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens son | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is moving to subpoena Twitters Chief Executive Jack Dorsey after the social media platform decided to block stories from the New York Post that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens son | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-senate-twitter/u-s-senate-judiciary-committee-plans-to-subpoena-twitter-ceo-over-blocking-new-york-post-articles-idUSKBN2702H5 | 2020-10-16 |
| Twitter Inc said on Thursday its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems but the platform seemed to be returning to normal after about an hour and half of outage | Neutral | Twitter Inc said on Thursday its social networking site was down for many users due to an inadvertent change it had made to its internal systems but the platform seemed to be returning to normal after about an hour and half of outage | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-outage/twitter-down-for-many-users-due-to-change-in-internal-systems-idUSKBN270378 | 2020-10-16 |
| Pinkerton said on Twitter that Dolloff was not an employee but rather a contractor agent from a long standing industry vendor | Neutral | DENVER A security guard hired to protect a Denver television news crew covering dueling rallies by rightwing and leftwing groups will be charged with seconddegree murder in the fatal shooting of a protester the citys top prosecutor said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-colorado-shooting/security-guard-who-fatally-shot-denver-protester-will-be-charged-with-murder-idUSKBN27103Y | 2020-10-16 |
| U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-briefly-restricts-trump-campaign-account-republicans-decry-companys-actions-idUSKBN2702C4 | 2020-10-16 |
| Mexicos Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter that he was informed of the detention of Cienfuegos by the U.S. ambassador to Mexico | Negative | LOS CITY U.S authorities detained the defense minister for Mexican expresident Enrique Pena Nieto at Los Angeles airport on Thursday on a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warrant a DEA spokeswoman told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-politics/u-s-detains-mexicos-ex-defense-minister-on-dea-warrant-idUSKBN271099 | 2020-10-16 |
| Twitter policy chief Vijaya Gadde said late on Thursday the company has decided to make changes to its hacked materials policy following feedback on its enforcement earlier | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trumps reelection campaigns Twitter account was briefly restricted on Thursday causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who accused social media companies of acting like speech and vowing to hold Twitter responsible | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-briefly-restricts-trump-campaign-account-republicans-decry-companys-actions-idUSKBN2702C4 | 2020-10-16 |
| Twitters lack at the time of a chief information security officer also made the San Franciscobased company more vulnerable the report said | Negative | NEW YORK Twitter Inc suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over the accounts of several of the worlds most famous people in July according to a report released on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitters-security-fell-short-before-hack-targeting-celebrities-regulator-says-idUSKBN26Z1ZM | 2020-10-15 |
| Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin said on Twitter earlier this week that some doctors were refusing to join coronavirus teams | Negative | WARSAW Poland is ramping up training for nurses and could consider setting up military field hospitals for coronavirus patients as daily reported cases hit a new record of 6526 on Wednesday officials said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zone/article/us-health-coronavirus-poland-record/poland-ramps-up-health-training-as-covid-19-cases-hit-fresh-records-idUSKBN26Z134 | 2020-10-15 |
| Twitter suspends several accounts claiming to be owned by Black supporters of Trump and his reelection saying they broke rules on platform manipulation | Negative | With less than three weeks to go until the U.S. election and amid record early and mailin voting President Donald Trump heads to Iowa as he tries to make up for lost time on the campaign trail after being sidelined with coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-election-snapshot/2020-u-s-election-what-you-need-to-know-right-now-idUSKBN26Z1EH | 2020-10-15 |
| Erdogan aide Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter that Turkey was committed to diplomacy but there can be no negotiations if you say mine is mine and whats yours is negotiable | Negative | BRUSSELS The European Unions latest strategy to defuse tensions with Turkey is unravelling two weeks after it was sealed raising the risk of conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean diplomats officials and experts said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-greece-eu/carrot-and-stick-approach-to-turkey-failing-eu-envoys-say-idUSKBN26Z1LU | 2020-10-15 |
| NEW YORK Twitter Inc suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over the accounts of several of the worlds most famous people in July according to a report released on Wednesday | Negative | NEW YORK Twitter Inc suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over the accounts of several of the worlds most famous people in July according to a report released on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitters-security-fell-short-before-hack-targeting-celebrities-regulator-says-idUSKBN26Z1ZM | 2020-10-15 |
| That Twitter was vulnerable to an unsophisticated attack shows that selfregulation is not the said Linda Lacewell the financial services superintendent | Negative | NEW YORK Twitter Inc suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over the accounts of several of the worlds most famous people in July according to a report released on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitters-security-fell-short-before-hack-targeting-celebrities-regulator-says-idUSKBN26Z1ZM | 2020-10-15 |
| By doing your homework and publicizing the takeaways on social media channels like Twitter or LinkedIn you are setting the table for relationships which could endure beyond the event itself | Positive | NEW YORK When Diane Leonard checked in to a conference the other day the routine was Watching keynote speakers interacting with other attendees bumping into friends | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-world-work-virtualconferences/almost-like-being-there-making-the-most-of-virtual-conferences-idUSKBN26Y19Q | 2020-10-14 |
| Twitter declined to answer Reuters questions about the origin of the accounts | Negative | Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it had suspended a number of accounts that claimed to be owned by Black supporters of President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign saying the accounts broke its rules on spam and platform manipulation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-twitter-disinformation/twitter-suspends-accounts-of-alleged-black-trump-supporters-over-spam-manipulation-idUSKBN26Y2ZM | 2020-10-14 |
| Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it suspended a group of accounts that claimed to be owned by AfricanAmerican supporters of President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign due to spam and platform manipulation | Negative | Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it suspended a group of accounts that claimed to be owned by AfricanAmerican supporters of President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign due to spam and platform manipulation | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-twitter-disinformation/twitter-suspends-accounts-of-alleged-black-trump-supporters-over-spam-manipulation-idUSKBN26Y2ZM | 2020-10-14 |
| Twitter Inc will pay for failing to meet Washington states disclosure laws over payments related to multiple political ads that were posted on its platform since 2012 the states attorney general said on Tuesday | Negative | Twitter Inc will pay for failing to meet Washington states disclosure laws over payments related to multiple political ads that were posted on its platform since 2012 the states attorney general said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-court-washington/washington-state-seeks-100000-from-twitter-for-campaign-finance-violations-idUSKBN26Y1OL | 2020-10-14 |
| Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it had suspended a number of accounts that claimed to be owned by Black supporters of President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign saying the accounts broke its rules on spam and platform manipulation | Negative | Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it had suspended a number of accounts that claimed to be owned by Black supporters of President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign saying the accounts broke its rules on spam and platform manipulation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-twitter-disinformation/twitter-suspends-accounts-of-alleged-black-trump-supporters-over-spam-manipulation-idUSKBN26Y2ZM | 2020-10-14 |
| It doesnt matter if Twitters shutting you down in four days theyve already had their Linvill said | Neutral | Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it had suspended a number of accounts that claimed to be owned by Black supporters of President Donald Trump and his reelection campaign saying the accounts broke its rules on spam and platform manipulation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/us-usa-twitter-disinformation/twitter-suspends-accounts-of-alleged-black-trump-supporters-over-spam-manipulation-idUSKBN26Y2ZM | 2020-10-14 |
| A Twitter spokeswoman told Reuters that the tweet made misleading health about COVID19 and that engagements with the post would be significantly as is standard in such cases | Negative | Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the U.S. President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus saying it violated the social media platforms rules about misleading information related to COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-flags-trump-tweet-for-violating-its-rules-on-covid-19-information-idUSKBN26W0TI | 2020-10-12 |
| Alyssa Farah the White House communications director said later on Twitter that Fauci had made other media appearances earlier in the week rebutting the charge he was muzzled | Negative | WASHINGTON Top U.S. infectious diseases expert Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-fauci/fauci-says-his-remarks-were-taken-out-of-context-in-trump-ad-idUSKBN26W0XM | 2020-10-12 |
| Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the U.S. President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus saying it violated the social media platforms rules about misleading information related to COVID19 | Negative | Twitter on Sunday flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the U.S. President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus saying it violated the social media platforms rules about misleading information related to COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-flags-trump-tweet-for-violating-its-rules-on-covid-19-information-idUSKBN26W0TI | 2020-10-12 |
| Twitter says it has labeled thousands of misleading posts though most attention has been on the labels applied to tweets by President Trump | Negative | Oct 9 Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or implementation of election results including through violence as the company also announced more labels and restrictions to slow the spread of misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-election-twitter/twitter-imposes-restrictions-more-warning-labels-ahead-of-u-s-election-idUSL1N2H00KJ | 2020-10-10 |
| Twitter also said it would label tweets that falsely claim a win for any candidate | Negative | Oct 9 Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or implementation of election results including through violence as the company also announced more labels and restrictions to slow the spread of misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-election-twitter/twitter-imposes-restrictions-more-warning-labels-ahead-of-u-s-election-idUSL1N2H00KJ | 2020-10-10 |
| Multiple people at the incident said on Twitter that police had fired the canisters | Negative | LAGOS Nigerian police used teargas on Friday to disperse dozens of people in the capital Abuja who had gathered to protest at alleged brutality by members of a special police unit witnesses said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-nigeria-protests/police-fire-teargas-at-nigerians-protesting-at-alleged-brutality-witnesses-say-idUSKBN26U1X0 | 2020-10-10 |
| Oct 9 Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or implementation of election results including through violence as the company also announced more labels and restrictions to slow the spread of misinformation | Negative | Oct 9 Twitter Inc said on Friday it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the U.S. election process or implementation of election results including through violence as the company also announced more labels and restrictions to slow the spread of misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-election-twitter/twitter-imposes-restrictions-more-warning-labels-ahead-of-u-s-election-idUSL1N2H00KJ | 2020-10-10 |
| French President Emmanuel Macron said on a message on Twitter that he spoke with Petronin and that he will welcome her when she returns to France on Friday | Positive | BAMAKO Freed Malian politician Soumaila Cisse French aid worker Sophie Petronin and two Italians arrived in Bamako on Thursday aboard a Malian military transport plane ending their lengthy captivity in the hands of Islamist insurgents | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-mali-security/kidnapped-mali-politician-french-aid-worker-and-two-italians-freed-idUSKBN26T1KE | 2020-10-09 |
| Trump lashed back at Whitmer on Twitter late on Thursday saying the governor has done a terrible and casting her as being ungrateful to his administration | Negative | Thirteen men seven of them associated with an antigovernment militia group called the Wolverine Watchmen have been arrested on charges of conspiring to kidnap the Michigan governor attack the state legislature and threaten law enforcement prosecutors said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-michigan-whitmer/militia-members-others-charged-in-plot-to-kidnap-michigan-governor-she-says-trump-complicit-idUSKBN26T2ZF | 2020-10-09 |
| On Twitter Trump We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by | Positive | WASHINGTON All U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be home by President Donald Trump said on Wednesday just hours after his national security adviser said Washington would reduce its forces in Afghanistan to 2500 by early next year | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-afghanistan-military/u-s-troops-in-afghanistan-should-be-home-by-christmas-trump-idUSKBN26S3EX | 2020-10-09 |
| Twitter said the five networks it had suspended were separately linked to groups with ties to the governments of Iran Saudi Arabia Cuba Thailand and Russia | Negative | Tehran and Moscow have repeatedly denied the allegations | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-cyber-disinformation-facebook-twitter/facebook-twitter-dismantle-global-array-of-disinformation-networks-idUSKBN26T2XO | 2020-10-09 |
| Risk sentiment was overshadowed by President Trumps announcement on Twitter that he was calling off negotiations with Democratic lawmakers on U.S. coronavirus relief legislation until after the Nov | Negative | TOKYO Oct 7 Longdated Japanese government bond yields fell on Wednesday tracking U.S. Treasuries as risk aversion mood revived after U.S. President Donald Trump halted negotiations for additional COVID19 relief until after the election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-bonds/long-dated-jgb-yields-track-fall-in-u-s-treasuries-idUSL4N2GY0X0 | 2020-10-07 |
| Prospects for additional U.S. coronavirus bill crumbled after President Trump announced on Twitter that he was calling off negotiations with Democratic lawmakers on coronavirus relief legislation until after the election | Negative | TOKYO Oct 7 Japanese stocks on Wednesday tracked Wall Street lower as economic uncertainty resurfaced after U.S. President Donald Trump halted negotiations for additional stimulus to aid the coronavirusbattered economy until after the election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/japan-stocks-midday/japanese-shares-dip-as-u-s-stimulus-halt-revives-economic-uncertainty-idUSL4N2GY0HR | 2020-10-07 |
| Facebook Inc and Twitter took action on posts from U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against coronavirus misinformation by suggesting that COVID19 was just like the flu | Negative | Facebook Inc and Twitter took action on posts from U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against coronavirus misinformation by suggesting that COVID19 was just like the flu | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump/facebook-twitter-take-action-over-trumps-misleading-covid-19-posts-idUSKBN26R2Z3 | 2020-10-07 |
| Twitter which has been using labels to flag tweets with misinformation including from the president told Reuters it is currently trying to respond more quickly and more overtly | Neutral | Facebook Inc and Twitter took action on posts from U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against coronavirus misinformation by suggesting that COVID19 was just like the flu | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump/facebook-twitter-take-action-over-trumps-misleading-covid-19-posts-idUSKBN26R2Z3 | 2020-10-07 |
| Rocket enthusiasts on Twitter have coined the spate of launch delays as SpaceX and ULA the top two U.S. space launch companies scramble to get their rockets back on schedule | Negative | SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said he will visit his space companys Florida rocket facilities this week to investigate the cause of recent launch aborts and delays that have held up a busy mission schedule for the companys workhorse Falcon 9 rocket | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-space-exploration-spacex-scrubs/musk-to-visit-spacex-launchpad-after-mission-aborts-delays-idUSKBN26Q2EI | 2020-10-06 |
| began trending on Twitter after video showed Trump appearing to take several deep breaths while standing on the White House balcony | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump faced a fresh backlash on Tuesday for removing his mask when he returned to the White House and urging Americans not to fear the COVID19 disease that has killed more than 209000 people in the country and put him in hospital | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-faces-backlash-for-removing-mask-on-return-to-white-house-idUSKBN26R0H2 | 2020-10-06 |
| Australias Foreign Minister Marise Payne who met Pompeo earlier on Tuesday said on Twitter she had spoken with him about our ongoing cooperation to promote peace stability prosperity in our | Positive | TOKYO U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday hailed new Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga as a force for and said he believes Suga will work to strengthen the relationship between Washington and Tokyo | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-asia-pompeo/pompeo-hails-japan-pm-suga-force-for-good-during-visit-to-boost-solidarity-against-china-idUSKBN26Q2E0 | 2020-10-06 |
| Twitter said it also used technology to catch abusive content and has launched tools to improve users control over their conversations | Positive | LONDON Reuters Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook Instagram and Twitter with nearly experiencing harassment a global study showed on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-socialmedia-girls-abuse/social-media-abuse-drives-girls-off-facebook-instagram-twitter-poll-idUSKBN26Q030 | 2020-10-05 |
| In an open letter to Facebook Instagram TikTok and Twitter girls from around the world called on social media companies to create more effective ways to report abuse | Positive | LONDON Reuters Online abuse is driving girls to quit social media platforms including Facebook Instagram and Twitter with nearly experiencing harassment a global study showed on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-socialmedia-girls-abuse/social-media-abuse-drives-girls-off-facebook-instagram-twitter-poll-idUSKBN26Q030 | 2020-10-05 |
| Shortly before the brief ride Trump posted a video on Twitter saying he would pay a little surprise to the some of the great patriots we have out on the street | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump briefly left the military hospital where he is being treated for COVID19 in a motorcade on Sunday to wave to supporters gathered outside sparking criticism that he was putting others at risk for a political stunt | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-motorcade/trump-trip-from-hospital-to-wave-at-fans-endangers-others-doctor-warns-idUSKBN26Q01T | 2020-10-05 |
| VANCOUVER Twitter users are flooding the hashtag on social media with images of pride displacing posts made by neoNazis and white supremacists using the tag | Negative | VANCOUVER Twitter users are flooding the hashtag on social media with images of pride displacing posts made by neoNazis and white supremacists using the tag | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-lgbt-proud-boys/twitter-users-flood-proudboys-hashtag-with-gay-pride-images-idUSKBN26P0WO | 2020-10-05 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he was feeling well with the help of the doctors and nurses at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Twitter on Saturday that he was feeling well with the help of the doctors and nurses at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-twitter/trump-says-in-tweet-he-is-feeling-well-with-help-of-doctors-nurses-at-walter-reed-idUSKBN26O0U2 | 2020-10-04 |
| WASHINGTON Oct 2 Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey has agreed to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee on Oct | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2GT2DX | 2020-10-04 |
| Conway who left the White House at the end of August said on Twitter she had a light cough but felt fine after testing positive | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump moved to a military hospital for treatment on Friday after being diagnosed with COVID19 as his administration and reelection campaign scrambled to adjust to an extraordinary twist in his turbulent presidency | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-moved-to-military-hospital-after-covid-19-diagnosis-idUSKBN26N0K4 | 2020-10-03 |
| Twitters Dorsey tweeted on Friday that the hearing must be constructive focused on what matters most to the American how we work together to protect elections | Positive | Twitters Dorsey tweeted on Friday that the hearing must be constructive focused on what matters most to the American how we work together to protect elections | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-senate-tech/facebook-twitter-google-ceos-will-testify-before-u-s-senate-committee-idUSKBN26N3MQ | 2020-10-03 |
| The business of government economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters after Trump disclosed on Twitter early in the day that he had tested positive for the coronavirus | Negative | WASHINGTON White House officials sought to project an air of business as usual on Friday despite President Donald Trumps COVID19 diagnosis but aides privately expressed concern about the presidential election and showed signs of rising worry about the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump-whitehou/worries-behind-the-scenes-at-white-house-after-trump-covid-diagnosis-idUSKBN26O007 | 2020-10-03 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to approve a plan to subpoena chief executives of Twitter Alphabets Google and Facebook for a hearing likely to be held before the election on a prized legal immunity enjoyed by internet companies | Positive | WASHINGTON The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday unanimously voted to approve a plan to subpoena chief executives of Twitter Alphabets Google and Facebook for a hearing likely to be held before the election on a prized legal immunity enjoyed by internet companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-senate-tech/senate-panel-approves-sending-subpoenas-to-ceos-of-twitter-facebook-google-idUSKBN26M6FA | 2020-10-02 |
| On Twitter and at campaign rallies Trump 74 has called Biden Sleepy an apparent dig at the 77yearold Democrats vitality | Positive | Interrupted repeatedly by President Donald Trump in their presidential debate on Tuesday an exasperated Joe Biden resorted to insults and namecalling against an opponent who built his political career by coining belittling nicknames for his rivals | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-debate-insults/this-clown-nothing-smart-about-you-un-presidential-insults-fly-in-first-trump-biden-debate-idUSKBN26L0R8 | 2020-09-30 |
| On Twitter Musk said the company might sell 20 million cars before 2030 and projected total industry sales at more than 30 million EVs | Neutral | SEOUL Shares of LG Chem Ltd which supplies batteries to Tesla Inc climbed on Tuesday after media said the U.S. electric vehicle maker was looking to acquire a stake in a battery unit the South Korean company wants to dispose of | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-lg-chem-tesla-stocks/shares-of-lg-chem-rise-after-report-of-teslas-interest-in-battery-unit-idUSKBN26K1A1 | 2020-09-30 |
| Navalny wrote on Twitter that it was a private meeting and conversation with the | Positive | German Chancellor Angela Merkel paid a personal visit to Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny while he was undergoing treatment in a Berlin hospital for poisoning in what Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday called a murderous | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-merkel/merkel-visited-kremlin-critic-navalny-in-hospital-idUSKBN26J0IN | 2020-09-29 |
| Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday the social media platform plans to expand its labeling of stateaffiliated accounts worldwide even as he defended its policy of allowing leaders of countries like Iran and China to use Twitter | Positive | Twitter Inc Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday the social media platform plans to expand its labeling of stateaffiliated accounts worldwide even as he defended its policy of allowing leaders of countries like Iran and China to use Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-politics-activism-twitter/twitter-aims-to-label-more-state-affiliated-accounts-worldwide-idUSKCN26G2N0 | 2020-09-26 |
| Trump who regularly posts on Twitter has had warning labels placed on some of his tweets by Twitter Inc saying they included potentially misleading information about mailin voting | Negative | WASHINGTON The ranking Democrat on the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee rejected a request by Republicans on Thursday to subpoena three top tech executives to testify at an upcoming hearing accusing them of trying to use the subpoena power for political gain | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tech-senate/top-democrat-on-senate-panel-opposes-sending-subpoenas-to-tech-ceos-idUSKCN26F2VL | 2020-09-25 |
| FIDH said on Twitter it helped the plaintiffs to file the complaint | Positive | PARIS Paris prosecutors have opened an investigation into French bank BNP Paribas over allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity in Sudan a lawyer and Parisbased International Federation for Human Rights said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-france-bnp-paribas-probe-sudan/france-opens-probe-into-bnp-paribas-over-its-role-in-sudan-idUSKCN26F37Q | 2020-09-25 |
| Donald Trump said on Twitter that he was praying for the two officers shot on Wednesday and had spoken to Kentuckys governor to offer federal help. | Positive | Thomson Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal//www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN26E2KZ | 2020-09-24 |
| President Donald Trump said on Twitter that he was praying for the two officers shot on Wednesday and had spoken to Kentuckys governor to offer federal help | Positive | LOUISVILLE Kentucky Two police officers were shot and wounded late on Wednesday in Louisville Kentucky during protests of a grand jury ruling decried by civil rights activists as a miscarriage of justice in the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor in March | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-usa-louisville-report/two-police-officers-shot-amid-louisville-protests-over-breonna-taylor-ruling-idUSKCN26E2KZ | 2020-09-24 |
| Twitter declined to comment while Facebook and Google did not respond to Reuters requests for comment | Negative | This is the first time were using the Computer Crime Act to take action against platforms for not complying with court Puttipong told reporters | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-thailand-internet/thailand-takes-first-legal-action-against-facebook-twitter-over-content-idUSKCN26F0R7 | 2020-09-24 |
| Milton who had strongly denied the accusations leveled by shortseller Hindenburg Research in several Twitter postings appeared to have disabled his account on the socialmedia site on Tuesday | Negative | Nikola Corp NKLA.O Chief Financial Officer Kim Brady said on Tuesday the electrictruck maker has the backing of all of its automotive partners even after the departure of founder and Chairman Trevor Milton | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-nikola-hindenburg/nikola-partners-back-company-despite-founder-miltons-exit-cfo-says-idUSKCN26D2RT | 2020-09-23 |
| Marc Elias an elections lawyer working with Bidens campaign said on Twitter that the ruling was a big for Democrats | Neutral | DETROIT A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed a lawsuit by President Donald Trumps reelection campaign that sought to block the state from sending mailin ballots to every registered voter a legal victory for Democrats ahead of Novembers election | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-nevada/nevada-judge-tosses-trump-campaign-lawsuit-over-mail-in-ballots-idUSKCN26C33D | 2020-09-22 |
| Irans U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi said on Twitter on Saturday U.S. illegal and false has come and gone | Negative | NEW YORK United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Saturday he cannot take any action on a U.S. declaration that all U.N. sanctions on Iran had been reimposed because there would appear to be on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-un/u-n-chief-says-no-action-on-u-n-iran-sanctions-due-to-uncertainty-idUSKCN26B03X | 2020-09-21 |
| Russias Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy responded on Twitter We all clearly said in August that U.S. claims to trigger snapback are illegitimate | Negative | NEW YORK United Nations SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Saturday he cannot take any action on a U.S. declaration that all U.N. sanctions on Iran had been reimposed because there would appear to be on the issue | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-usa-un/u-n-chief-says-no-action-on-u-n-iran-sanctions-due-to-uncertainty-idUSKCN26B03X | 2020-09-21 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days she said on Twitter becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID19 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days she said on Twitter becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hayes/u-s-representative-jahana-hayes-tests-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKCN26B0VG | 2020-09-21 |
| Hayes on Twitter said that though maskwearing social distancing and cleaning precautions are taken in the House of Representatives members of Congress are not regularly tested for COVID19 | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has decided to quarantine for 14 days she said on Twitter becoming the latest member of Congress to test positive for COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-hayes/u-s-representative-jahana-hayes-tests-positive-for-covid-19-idUSKCN26B0VG | 2020-09-21 |
| In a post on Twitter Trump praised that decision writing We will be watching that the Democrats do not Ballot Harvest a felony | Positive | Pennsylvanias top court ruled on Thursday that state officials dealing with a surge in mailin ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic can accept them up to three days after the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-election-pennsylvania/pennsylvania-court-extends-presidential-mail-ballot-deadline-in-pandemic-idUSKBN26837L | 2020-09-18 |
| Twitters warning label redirected users to a curated page Voting by mail is legal and safe experts and data which contained more information on mailin voting | Neutral | The process is seen as a way to limit exposure to the coronavirus though the system to do so will vary from state to state | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-places-warning-label-on-trump-tweet-about-voting-by-mail-idUSKBN2682M7 | 2020-09-18 |
| Twitter Inc which was recently targeted in a hacking campaign that compromised the accounts of prominent political figures and celebrities said on Thursday it was implementing more security measures for certain electionrelated accounts in the United States | Positive | Twitter Inc which was recently targeted in a hacking campaign that compromised the accounts of prominent political figures and celebrities said on Thursday it was implementing more security measures for certain electionrelated accounts in the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-election/twitter-will-make-key-u-s-political-accounts-adopt-tighter-account-security-idUSKBN26835Q | 2020-09-18 |
| Masisi said on Twitter that the new policy would also protect widows and orphans who may head households | Positive | GABORONE Reuters A wife in Botswana can now own land alongside her husband President Mokgweetsi Masisi said on Thursday in a boost for women that rights groups called long overdue | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-botswana-women-landrights-trfn/botswana-opts-to-make-land-owners-of-wives-with-new-law-idUSKBN2682XF | 2020-09-18 |
| Twitter has previously attached labels to tweets posted and shared by the president including adding factchecking notices on his tweets containing misleading information about mailin ballots | Negative | note 2nd paragraph language that readers may find offensive | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-twitter/twitter-labels-video-of-biden-shared-by-trump-manipulated-media-idUSKBN2672CK | 2020-09-17 |
| In a video posted on Twitter by Iowa senator Joni Ernst Trump said Branstad would be coming home | Neutral | U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad will step down to work on President Donald Trumps reelection campaign a U.S. official familiar with the matter said on Monday departing Beijing at a time when the ties between the worlds top two economies are at their worst in decades | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-china-branstad/u-s-ambassador-to-china-branstad-leaving-post-to-help-trump-campaign-u-s-official-idUSKBN2650XZ | 2020-09-15 |
| And Trumps Twitter feed has become a source of anxiety | Negative | LONDON In 1973 Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries brought the U.S. economy to its knees | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-insight/once-an-american-foe-now-a-friend-opec-turns-60-idUSKBN26406P | 2020-09-13 |
| Trump has engaged more actively with OPEC than his predecessors often taking to Twitter to comment on production decisions and oil price moves | Neutral | LONDON In 1973 Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries brought the U.S. economy to its knees | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-oil-opec-insight/once-an-american-foe-now-a-friend-opec-turns-60-idUSKBN26406P | 2020-09-13 |
| The Durham investigation was political from the Schiff wrote on Twitter after Dannehys resignation was reported | Negative | A senior aide to the Connecticut federal prosecutor in charge of investigating the origins of the FBIs probe into contacts between Donald Trumps 2016 campaign and Russia has resigned from the Justice Department a spokesman for the prosecutors office said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-russia/key-aide-to-prosecutor-reviewing-origins-of-trump-russia-probe-resigns-idUSKBN26233M | 2020-09-12 |
| PayPal Siemens Twitter and Zoom had said that they were investing in Singapore this year Kumar added | Positive | TikTok owner ByteDance plans to invest billions of dollars and recruit hundreds of employees in Singapore after opting to base its Southeast Asia regional headquarters there a person familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-bytedance-singapore/tiktok-owner-bytedance-to-invest-billions-in-singapore-over-three-years-source-idUSKBN2620FO | 2020-09-12 |
| A Twitter spokesman said whether content had specific falsehoods or could cause greater harm would determine if it would be removed or labeled and have its reach reduced | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it would label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine confidence in the U.S. election including posts claiming victory before results have been certified or inciting unlawful conduct to prevent a peaceful transfer of power | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-expands-misinformation-rules-ahead-of-u-s-election-idUSKBN2612XS | 2020-09-11 |
| Twitter Inc said on Thursday it would label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine confidence in the U.S. election including posts claiming victory before results have been certified or inciting unlawful conduct to prevent a peaceful transfer of power | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it would label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine confidence in the U.S. election including posts claiming victory before results have been certified or inciting unlawful conduct to prevent a peaceful transfer of power | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-expands-misinformation-rules-ahead-of-u-s-election-idUSKBN2612XS | 2020-09-11 |
| Twitter said its rules would be applied equally and judiciously for everyone | Neutral | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it would label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine confidence in the U.S. election including posts claiming victory before results have been certified or inciting unlawful conduct to prevent a peaceful transfer of power | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-expands-misinformation-rules-ahead-of-u-s-election-idUSKBN2612XS | 2020-09-11 |
| The National Guard said in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday it had been attacked by armed civilians on Tuesday night and repelled the aggression | Negative | MEXICO CITY Two civilians were killed in a gunfight with Mexicos National Guard militarized police force near a violent protest at a dam in northern Mexico that diverts water to the United States | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-usa-water-deaths/two-civilians-die-in-gunfight-with-military-police-near-dam-protest-in-northern-mexico-idUSKBN2602NX | 2020-09-10 |
| The Chinese embassy in Britain said on Wednesday that ambassador Liu Xiaomings Twitter account had been hacked into | Negative | The Chinese embassy in Britain said on Wednesday that ambassador Liu Xiaomings Twitter account had been hacked into | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-uk/chinese-embassy-in-uk-says-ambassadors-twitter-account-was-hacked-idUSKBN2602K8 | 2020-09-10 |
| BRUSSELS Two years after agreeing to a selfregulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation Facebook Alphabets Google Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective the European Commission said on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS Two years after agreeing to a selfregulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation Facebook Alphabets Google Twitter and other tech rivals must try harder to be more effective the European Commission said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-eu-tech-disinformation/facebook-google-twitter-urged-by-eu-to-do-more-against-fake-news-idUSKBN2610GU | 2020-09-10 |
| Trump took that action after Twitter tagged the presidents unsubstantiated tweets about claims of fraud in mailin voting with a warning prompting readers to factcheck the posts | Negative | WASHINGTON Three Republican U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced the latest legislation targeting a federal law that largely exempts tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from legal liability for the material their users post | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-technology-liability/republican-senators-propose-reform-to-key-u-s-tech-liability-shield-idUSKBN25Z3AD | 2020-09-09 |
| She said on Twitter the trial was not fair or transparent and the responsibility of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has not even been addressed | Negative | A Saudi Arabian court on Monday jailed eight people for between seven and 20 years for the 2018 murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi state media reported four months after his family forgave his killers and enabled death sentences to be set aside | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-saudi-khashoggi/saudi-arabia-jails-eight-over-khashoggi-murder-fiancee-decries-trial-idUSKBN25Y1FI | 2020-09-08 |
| In a video posted on Twitter Blake dressed in a green hospital gown described being in constant pain after the shooting that left him paralyzed from the waist down | Negative | Jacob Blake the Black man who was shot in the back by a white police officer in Wisconsin last month spoke out for the first time from his hospital bed as dueling demonstrations over racial justice and policing continued to roil a handful of U.S. cities | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-usa-protests/as-protests-rock-u-s-cities-on-holiday-weekend-jacob-blake-speaks-out-idUSKBN25X0SQ | 2020-09-07 |
| There was no word from China but Hu Xijin editorinchief of Chinas statebacked Global Times newspaper said on Twitter that a meeting between the defense ministers was expected | Positive | NEW DELHI The defense ministers of India and China are expected to hold talks in Moscow later on Friday government officials said the highest level facetoface political contact since tensions flared along their disputed mountain border in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-india-china/indian-and-chinese-defense-ministers-set-for-meeting-in-moscow-over-border-row-idUSKBN25V0PD | 2020-09-05 |
| Twitter claimed the tweet was supported by evidence despite the fact that many experts including signatories to this letter can validate that they wrote | Positive | WASHINGTON Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Donald Trumps push to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new transparency rules | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-socialmedia/four-state-attorneys-general-back-trump-on-social-media-regulation-push-idUSKBN25U2W8 | 2020-09-04 |
| The Republican president directed the Commerce Department to file the petition after Twitter Inc in May warned readers to factcheck his posts about unsubstantiated claims of fraud in mailin voting | Negative | WASHINGTON Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Donald Trumps push to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new transparency rules | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-socialmedia/four-state-attorneys-general-back-trump-on-social-media-regulation-push-idUSKBN25U2W8 | 2020-09-04 |
| Get off Twitter and start talking to congressional leaders of both Biden said | Positive | WILMINGTON Del | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election/biden-looks-to-turn-campaign-focus-to-pandemic-as-trump-dwells-on-protests-idUSKBN25T1EE | 2020-09-04 |
| Twitter on Thursday flagged two more tweets from Trump for violating its rules on civic and election integrity by urging voters to cast ballots twice via mail and in person | Negative | WASHINGTON Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Donald Trumps push to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new transparency rules | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-socialmedia/four-state-attorneys-general-back-trump-on-social-media-regulation-push-idUSKBN25U2W8 | 2020-09-04 |
| A day earlier U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote on Twitter that Kondrusiewicz should be allowed to return home so he can tend to his flock during the ongoing | Positive | VATICAN CITY Sept 3 Roman Catholic bishops urged Belaruss leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday to let its most senior cleric come back into the country | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/belarus-election-archbishop/european-bishops-demand-belarus-allow-return-of-catholic-leader-idUSL8N2G04XF | 2020-09-04 |
| As part of our Twitter chat series Reuters gathered a group of experts to discuss how the COVID19 pandemic has transformed K12 education | Negative | NEW YORK Parents teachers and students nationwide are preparing for a school year like no other | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-schoolchat/how-to-prepare-for-a-school-year-like-no-other-idUSKBN25U2M7 | 2020-09-04 |
| Foreign Minister Tomas Petricek and Labour and Minister Jana Malacova said on Twitter on Thursday they were selfisolating after positive tests among people they had met | Positive | PRAGUE The Czech Republic reported 650 new COVID19 cases on Thursday its highest number for a single day since the start of the coronavirus pandemic as infections gathered speed amid relaxed government restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-czech-cases/czech-republic-reports-record-daily-coronavirus-cases-four-ministers-isolating-idUSKBN25U17I | 2020-09-04 |
| Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Twitter called it a foolish and said the president ought to be focused on getting our country out of the COVID crisis | Negative | WASHINGTON Mayors of major U.S. cities on Thursday blasted President Donald Trumps threat to cut federal funding to cities facing ongoing protests as a violation of the U.S. Constitution and New York state said it would challenge any move to defund the city in court | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-trump-cities/trumps-threat-to-defund-cities-unconstitutional-mayors-say-idUSKBN25U2SS | 2020-09-04 |
| On Twitter Indias coast guard said it had sent several ships and aircraft to help fight the fire | Negative | DELHI A new fire broke out on a supertanker carrying about 2 million barrels of oil in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Sri Lanka spokesmen for the countrys navy said on Thursday adding that one of its 23 crew was missing and another injured | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-india-tanker-blast/blaze-breaks-out-again-on-oil-tanker-off-sri-lanka-cargo-area-intact-idUSKBN25U0OQ | 2020-09-04 |
| John Ullyot a National Security Council spokesman said on Twitter that the finding that a Novichok agent was used against Navalny was completely reprehensible | Negative | WASHINGTON The White House on Wednesday called completely findings that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent and said the United States would work to hold those in Russia accountable | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-navaly-usa/poisoning-of-russian-opposition-leader-completely-reprehensible-white-house-idUSKBN25T2RO | 2020-09-03 |
| President Donald Trump directed the Commerce Department to file the petition after Twitter Inc in May warned readers to factcheck his posts about unsubstantiated claims of fraud in mailin voting | Negative | WASHINGTON A group representing major internet companies including Facebook Inc Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-trump-social-media/internet-companies-urge-fcc-to-reject-trump-bid-to-impose-new-social-media-regulations-idUSKBN25T329 | 2020-09-03 |
| New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Twitter that Trump was trying to cut off funding that states and cities must receive to recover from the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump signed a memo on Wednesday that threatens to cut federal funding to cities including Seattle Portland New York and Washington | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-trump-memo/trump-threatens-to-cut-federal-funds-to-lawless-cities-idUSKBN25U003 | 2020-09-03 |
| BENGALURU Sept 3 A Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis personal website appeared to be hacked early on Thursday with a series of tweets requesting its followers to donate to a relief fund through cryptocurrency which was subsequently taken down | Negative | spelling of Modi throughout story and name of his account in second | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/twitter-cyber-india-modi/corrected-twitter-account-of-india-pm-modis-personal-website-apparently-hacked-idUSFWN2FZ0LK | 2020-09-03 |
| Leonid Volkov a Navalny aide said on Twitter that the use of Novichok was like leaving Putins signature at the scene of the crime | Negative | Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/putin-critic-navalny-was-poisoned-with-novichok-nerve-agent-merkel-says-idUSKBN25T272 | 2020-09-03 |
| Trump who took months to embrace maskwearing as a way to slow the spread of COVID19 used the incident to attack Pelosi saying on Twitter that she is constantly others | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Republicans criticized House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday for going to a hair salon in San Francisco in an apparent violation of the citys coronavirus pandemic regulations but the Democratic leader said she had been told by the salon the appointment was allowed | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-politics-pelos/u-s-republicans-criticize-pelosi-over-hair-appointment-idUSKBN25T3BM | 2020-09-03 |
| Ivan Zhdanov another close Navalny ally said on Twitter that Novichok could be administered only by Russias intelligence agencies | Negative | Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who is in intensive care in a Berlin hospital was poisoned with a Sovietstyle Novichok nerve agent in an attempt to murder him German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny-germany/putin-critic-navalny-was-poisoned-with-novichok-nerve-agent-merkel-says-idUSKBN25T272 | 2020-09-03 |
| Twitter said it had also suspended five accounts as part of the operation which it could reliably attribute to Russian state actors | Negative | LONDON A Russian influence operation posed as an independent news outlet to target leftwing voters in the United States and Britain including by recruiting freelance journalists to write about domestic politics Facebook said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-election-facebook-russia/facebook-says-russian-influence-campaign-targeted-left-wing-voters-in-u-s-uk-idUSKBN25S5UI | 2020-09-02 |
| For those of you saying on Twitter this morning that you plan to come to Portland to seek retribution Im calling on you to stay Wheeler said | Positive | Oregon state police were poised on Monday to return to Portland after a fatal shooting this weekend as clashes escalated between an armed rightwing group and protesters demanding racial justice and police reforms | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-protests-portland/oregon-state-police-called-to-portland-as-officials-warn-of-escalating-violence-idUSKBN25R2A2 | 2020-09-01 |
| Minister Wangs statement has crossed the line such strong words dont belong in relations between two sovereign Petricek said on Twitter calling for cooperation without emotions which dont belong in diplomacy | Neutral | Czech Senate speaker Milos Vystrcil will pay a heavy for making an official trip to Taiwan the Chinese governments top diplomat said on Monday prompting Prague to summon Chinas ambassador to explain comments it said crossed the | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-taiwan-czech-china/czech-senate-speaker-will-pay-heavy-price-for-taiwan-visit-china-says-idUSKBN25R059 | 2020-09-01 |
| Jason Miller a senior adviser to Trumps campaign said on Twitter that Biden had sat idly by for months refusing to condemn violence and chaos from his allies in Democratrun cities | Negative | DETROIT Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Sunday called violence at protests in Portland Oregon unacceptable and challenged President Donald Trump to stop recklessly it after one person was killed during clashes between rival groups | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden-protests/biden-condemns-portland-violence-says-trump-recklessly-encouraging-it-idUSKBN25Q0VL | 2020-08-31 |
| Social media companies Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have announced crackdowns on content linked with the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory QAnon | Negative | Social media companies Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have announced crackdowns on content linked with the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory QAnon | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-socialmedia-qanon-factbox/factbox-what-is-qanon-and-how-are-social-media-sites-handling-it-idUSKBN25P01O | 2020-08-30 |
| The official Twitter feed of Mecklenburg County North Carolina where Charlotte is located said two convention attendees and two event support staff had tested positive and all were immediately isolated | Positive | Four people at the Republican National Convention in North Carolina this week tested positive for the novel coronavirus officials said on Friday even as Republicans played down the U.S. health crisis in renominating President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-usa-election-covid/four-at-republican-convention-in-north-carolina-tested-coronavirus-positive-officials-say-idUSKBN25O27T | 2020-08-29 |
| Twitter livened up with memes after Walmart announced it had teamed up with Microsoft to buy a social media app less than threeyears old | Positive | Wall Street was swift to see the rationale behind Walmart Inc jumping into the fray to buy TikTok access to millions of young digitally savvy users who could help the 60yearold company boost its online sales | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-walmart-tiktok/walmart-wants-to-go-viral-with-tiktok-wall-street-thinks-it-can-idUSKBN25O28F | 2020-08-29 |
| James a fourtime NBA Most Valuable Player wrote on Twitter on Change doesnt happen with just It happens with action and needs to happen | Positive | The National Basketball Association said on Thursday it hopes to resume play in a day or two after a boycott by players protesting against racial injustice and police brutality while President Donald Trump denounced the league as like a political organization | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-usa-sports/nba-ready-to-resume-season-after-players-racial-injustice-boycott-idUSKBN25N2OB | 2020-08-28 |
| Many users took to Twitter to complain about missing out on an otherwise exciting event for the global gaming community while some raved about the latest version | Negative | Many users took to Twitter to complain about missing out on an otherwise exciting event for the global gaming community while some raved about the latest version | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-apple-epic-games/new-season-of-fortnite-is-here-apple-users-miss-out-idUSKBN25N1V0 | 2020-08-28 |
| The Lebanese army said on its Twitter account that Israeli helicopters had fired missiles at centres of a local environmental group | Negative | TEL AVIV The Israeli military struck what it said were posts belonging to Lebanons Shiite Hezbollah group on Wednesday after shots were fired at troops in Israel in a flareup that added to already high tensions along the frontier | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-lebanon-israel-shells/israel-strikes-hezbollah-posts-in-lebanon-after-shots-fired-at-troops-military-says-idUSKBN25L2SX | 2020-08-27 |
| It will definitely take Congress acting to keep all of the job requirements in she said on Twitter while Good to see WH wants to restart talks | Positive | President Donald Trump is weighing executive action to avoid massive layoffs at U.S. airlines if Congress fails to agree a fresh coronavirus stimulus package White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-airlines/trump-could-act-unilaterally-to-avoid-u-s-airline-layoffs-white-house-says-idUSKBN25M1SW | 2020-08-27 |
| Political ads on social media platforms such as Facebook Twitter and TikTok have become a hotlycontested issue as each have taken different approaches to labeling or even allowing political ads | Positive | Political ads on social media platforms such as Facebook Twitter and TikTok have become a hotlycontested issue as each have taken different approaches to labeling or even allowing political ads | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-at-t-advertising/atts-warnermedia-xandr-pair-up-to-sell-digital-ads-to-political-advertisers-idUSKBN25M27H | 2020-08-27 |
| On Twitter Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Pompeos lawless bullying leaves U.S. isolated again | Negative | NEW YORK The president of the U.N. Security Council Indonesia said on Tuesday it was not in the position to take further on a U.S. bid to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran because there is no consensus in the 15member body | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-iran-un/u-n-security-council-president-dismisses-u-s-sanctions-move-on-iran-idUSKBN25L23T | 2020-08-26 |
| The statement on Twitter said presidential elections in May won by the ruling partys candidate Evariste Ndayishimiye were a and called for a new vote | Positive | NAIROBI At least 15 people were killed when gunmen attacked an area in southern Burundi three local witnesses told Reuters on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-burundi-violence-rebels/at-least-15-dead-as-rebels-attack-southern-burundi-idUSKBN25K294 | 2020-08-25 |
| Users took to Twitter to complain about the outage | Negative | Outage tracking website Downdetector | http://www.reuters.com/innovation/article/us-zoom-video-commn-outages/zoom-says-service-restored-after-u-s-users-hit-by-partial-outage-idUSKBN25K1NT | 2020-08-25 |
| Twitter in a disclaimer attached to the tweet Twitter has determined that it may be in the publics interest for the tweet to remain accessible | Positive | Twitter Inc on Sunday placed a disclaimer on U.S. President Donald Trumps tweet criticizing the promotion of drop boxes by Democrats as an option for voters saying the tweet violated the companys civic and election rules | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-trump-election/twitter-attaches-disclaimer-on-trumps-mail-drop-boxes-tweet-idUSKBN25J0OX | 2020-08-24 |
| Some Iranians took to Twitter on Sunday to show their anger with at least one user tweeting They were alive for 19 seconds | Negative | DUBAI Analysis from the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian passenger plane shows it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were still alive for some time after the impact of the first blast Iran said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-ukraine-airplane/iran-says-black-boxes-from-downed-ukraine-jet-show-missiles-hit-25-seconds-apart-idUSKBN25J084 | 2020-08-24 |
| Kira Yarmysh Navalnys spokeswoman said on Twitter that This is another proof that nothing was preventing Navalny from being transported and it was necessary to do so as early as possible | Neutral | BERLIN Gravely ill Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was evacuated to Germany for medical treatment on Saturday flown out of the Siberian city of Omsk in an ambulance aircraft and taken to a hospital in Berlin | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-russia-politics-navalny/kremlin-critic-navalny-is-flown-to-german-hospital-in-worrying-condition-idUSKBN25I07N | 2020-08-23 |
| Trump echoed the critique in a campaign video on Twitter After 47 years of failure weve had more than enough | Negative | Va | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-convention/battered-by-democrats-trump-fires-back-against-total-anarchy-madness-and-chaos-idUSKBN25H29B | 2020-08-22 |
| Twitter in recent months has placed factchecking and warning labels on tweets from President Trump unlike Facebook | Negative | White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a President Trump will continue to work to ensure the security and integrity of our elections | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-facebook-elections/facebook-weighs-kill-switch-for-political-ads-after-u-s-election-to-curb-misinformation-source-says-idUSKBN25H202 | 2020-08-22 |
| In another Twitter post he asked donors to the wall to buy from his Military Grade business to help him pay his bills | Positive | Brian Kolfage lost both legs and his right hand in a 2004 rocket attack in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-indictment-war-hero-insight/decorated-veteran-at-center-of-u-s-fraud-charges-on-border-wall-fundraising-idUSKBN25H27G | 2020-08-22 |
| DUBLIN Some European Union regulators objected to Irelands preliminary ruling in a landmark privacy investigation of Twitter the lead regulator said on Thursday triggering a process where a majority decision will be sought | Negative | DUBLIN Some European Union regulators objected to Irelands preliminary ruling in a landmark privacy investigation of Twitter the lead regulator said on Thursday triggering a process where a majority decision will be sought | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-europe-privacy-twitter/twitter-privacy-ruling-delayed-after-dispute-among-eu-regulators-idUSKBN25G1EL | 2020-08-21 |
| Gonzalez on Twitter rejected the accusations calling them a bid for vengeance against him because he had in 2017 denounced irregularities at Pemex under Lozoyas stewardship | Negative | MEXICO CITY An exchief executive of Petroleos Mexicanos accused former presidents ministers lawmakers political aides and a journalist of corruption in testimony leaked on Wednesday that is aimed at proving he is innocent of graft charges | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-corruption/ex-chief-of-mexicos-pemex-accuses-former-presidents-officials-of-graft-idUSKBN25G0IT | 2020-08-21 |
| NCEMA which posted a clip of the interview on its Twitter page late on Thursday could not be immediately reached for comment outside business hours | Negative | DUBAI The United Arab Emirates could reintroduce a defacto overnight curfew in some areas of the country if there are a high number of COVID19 infections there a government official said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-emirates/uae-could-reintroduce-curfew-in-some-areas-as-covid-19-cases-rise-official-says-idUSKBN25H0IK | 2020-08-21 |
| Trump himself has expressed contempt saying on Twitter last year that such Never Trump are human scum | Negative | LOS ANGELES Over 70 former Republican national security officials including exCIA and FBI chiefs will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday while launching a scathing indictment of President Donald Trump calling him corrupt and unfit to serve | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-republicans/former-republican-cia-fbi-heads-and-national-security-officials-to-back-biden-idUSKBN25G2C5 | 2020-08-21 |
| In July DiCaprio on Twitter praised the Brazilian governments 120day ban on fires in the Amazon an attempt to rein in the destruction | Positive | BRASILIA Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao on Wednesday called on actor Leonardo DiCaprio to visit the Amazon to see the reality of the situation there as the government faces criticisms for rising destruction in the worlds largest rainforest | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-environment/brazil-vice-president-invites-dicaprio-to-see-reality-of-amazon-rainforest-idUSKCN25F275 | 2020-08-20 |
| The U.S. envoy to the Sahel J. Peter Pham said on Twitter that the U.S. is opposed to all extraconstitutional changes of | Negative | BAMAKO Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned on Tuesday and dissolved parliament hours after mutinying soldiers detained him at gunpoint plunging a country already facing a jihadist insurgency and mass protests deeper into crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mali-security/mali-president-resigns-after-detention-by-military-deepening-crisis-idUSKCN25E1AF | 2020-08-19 |
| A document later posted on Twitter by Lopez Obrador showed the concession was held by API Veracruz the port administrator created in 1993 by former president Carlos Salinas | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos president on Tuesday said he would try to revoke a concession for the major port of Veracruz which he said was by one of his predecessors | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-port/mexico-president-wants-to-revoke-concession-for-veracruz-port-idUSKCN25E28Q | 2020-08-19 |
| The other staffer Rafael Caraveo denied on Twitter the cash was a bribe but offered no further explanation | Negative | MEXICO CITY An unverified video showing piles of cash being handed to Mexican congressional staffers went viral on Monday fueling a corruption scandal that is already convulsing the country even as the clips source and context remain unclear | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-corruption-video/piles-of-cash-in-viral-video-stoke-bribery-scandal-in-mexico-idUSKCN25E09E | 2020-08-18 |
| Chow last posted on her Japaneselanguage Twitter account on June 30 saying As long as we live there is hope | Positive | TOKYO Japans foreign minister said on Thursday the arrests of Hong Kong prodemocracy activist Agnes Chow and media tycoon Jimmy Lai raised questions over freedom of speech and the press in Hong Kong and Tokyos concerns over the situation were growing | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-hongkong-security-chow-japan/japan-says-concerns-over-hong-kong-growing-after-activist-agnes-chow-arrested-idUSKCN259143 | 2020-08-14 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo wrote on Twitter that he had sought the suspension of private charter flights between the U.S. and Cuba | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it will suspend private charter flights to Cuba to increase U.S. economic pressure on the Cuban government | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-cuba-flights/u-s-barring-private-charter-flights-to-cuba-idUSKCN2592IT | 2020-08-14 |
| Chinas popular Twitterlike Weibo platform said in a separate statement that it would restrict videos that posted similar content and urged eating bloggers to promote a concept of consumption | Negative | SHANGHAI Chinas biggest shortvideo and social media platforms said they will punish users seen to be wasting food in their broadcasts cracking down on socalled big stomach as the government urges against food wastage in the middle of a pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-food-wastage/china-cracks-down-on-big-stomach-kings-in-fight-against-food-wastage-idUSKCN259140 | 2020-08-14 |
| Kuwaits Armed Forces on Twitter denied the attack on one of the outposts on its northern boarder with Iraq affirming that boarders are stable and secure | Positive | BASRA Iraq An explosion near the Jraischan border crossing between Iraq and Kuwaiti on Monday evening targeted a convoy carrying equipment for U.S. forces three Iraqi security forces told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iraq-security/explosion-targets-convoy-carrying-u-s-military-equipment-near-iraq-kuwait-crossing-idUSKCN2562N7 | 2020-08-11 |
| We will announce the decision he wrote on Twitter of the location for his speech to close out the Republican National Convention on Aug | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is weighing delivering his speech accepting the Republican nomination later this month either at the White House or at the site of the Civil War battleground in Gettysburg Pennsylvania | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-trump-convention/trump-considers-gettysburg-backdrop-for-presidential-nomination-speech-idUSKCN2562EY | 2020-08-11 |
| Twitters own shareholders might prefer that management focus on its existing he added | Positive | If it tries to put together an investor group the terms will be tough | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tiktok-m-a-twitter/twitter-expressed-interest-in-buying-tiktoks-u-s-operations-idUSKCN2540ZG | 2020-08-10 |
| Nahle said on Twitter that she tested negative for the illness caused by the novel coronavirus but that she was abiding by the medical recommendations | Negative | MONTERREY Mexico Mexicos energy secretary Rocio Nahle said on Friday she was quarantining for two weeks because she had been in contact with a person who tested positive for COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-nahle/mexicos-energy-minister-to-quarantine-for-two-weeks-after-coronavirus-contact-idUSKCN2532SL | 2020-08-10 |
| One of Twitters shareholders private equity firm Silver Lake is interested in helping fund a potential deal one of the sources added | Positive | If it tries to put together an investor group the terms will be tough | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-tiktok-m-a-twitter/twitter-expressed-interest-in-buying-tiktoks-u-s-operations-idUSKCN2540ZG | 2020-08-10 |
| A Twitter spokesman said the account owner would be required to remove the tweet before they could tweet again | Neutral | The post contained a video clip from an interview with Fox Friends earlier in the day in which Trump claimed that children are almost to COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-facebook-trump/facebook-twitter-pull-trump-posts-over-coronavirus-misinformation-idUSKCN25136Y | 2020-08-06 |
| Hundreds of thousands of people posted pictures of emptied shelves on Twitter accompanied by handwritten Out of notices as they canvassed suggestions on how to acquire the coveted antiseptic | Positive | TOKYO Japanese drugstores were stripped bare of gargling solution by Wednesday a day after the governor of the western prefecture of Osaka suggested it could help fight coronavirus triggering panicked buying reminiscent of the early days of mask shortages | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-gargling/gargling-solution-flies-off-japans-shelves-after-governor-touts-anti-virus-effect-idUSKCN2510PQ | 2020-08-06 |
| Twitter has previously said its employees were duped into sharing account credentials | Neutral | A 17yearold Florida boy accused of masterminding the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk pled not guilty to charges on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-cyber/florida-teen-pleads-not-guilty-to-masterminding-twitter-hack-idUSKCN2502PI | 2020-08-05 |
| Twitter said it estimates probable loss of between million and million in settlement charges and has already recorded million of that estimate in accrual related to the allegations | Negative | In a regulatory filing Twitter said it received a draft FTC complaint alleging violations between 2013 and 2019 | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-ftc-twitter/ftc-probes-twitter-over-ad-targeting-practices-idUSKCN24Z2SN | 2020-08-04 |
| Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Sunday said on Twitter if the company data can be purchased secured by a trusted U.S. company that would be a positive acceptable outcome | Positive | WASHINGTON Several Republican senators on Sunday backed a plan by Chinas ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular shortvideo app | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance/republican-senators-back-plan-to-sell-tiktoks-u-s-operations-idUSKBN24Y0LK | 2020-08-03 |
| Senator John Cornyn a Texas Republican said on Twitter that a divestment and purchase by U.S. company is winwin | Positive | WASHINGTON Several Republican senators on Sunday backed a plan by Chinas ByteDance to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok after President Donald Trump said on Friday he had decided to ban the popular shortvideo app | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-tiktok-bytedance/republican-senators-back-plan-to-sell-tiktoks-u-s-operations-idUSKBN24Y0LK | 2020-08-03 |
| The controversy prompted Bidens campaign manager Jennifer OMalley Dillon to write on Twitter this week Ambitious women make history change the world and win | Neutral | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is expected to interview the finalists to be his running mate in the coming days according to a person familiar with the process as allies of the top contenders redoubled their efforts to push Biden toward their favored choice | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden/as-democrat-bidens-running-mate-search-nears-end-contenders-jockey-for-position-idUSKCN24X3E2 | 2020-08-02 |
| It was not clear whether Twitter would face a similar fine | Negative | A spokesperson for Facebook said the order was and threatens freedom of expression outside of Brazils but said the company has agreed to the order | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-facebook-brazil/facebook-puts-global-block-on-brazils-bolsonaro-supporters-idUSKBN24X3XC | 2020-08-02 |
| Twitter said it would also appeal the decision to block the accounts | Negative | BRASILIA A Brazilian Supreme Court judge slapped Facebook with a 1 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-facebook-brazil/brazil-judge-fines-facebook-for-not-blocking-bolsonaro-supporters-idUSKCN24X3BN | 2020-08-02 |
| Trump in May attacked Twitter for tagging his tweets about unsubstantiated claims of fraud about mailin voting with a warning prompting readers to factcheck the posts | Negative | YORK A group on Friday filed a new lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump demanding he unblock additional Twitter users from viewing his account | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump/first-amendment-group-files-new-suit-against-trump-over-blocked-twitter-users-idUSKCN24W2AX | 2020-08-01 |
| Twitter Inc said on Friday it has permanently suspended the account of David Duke a former leader of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan as the social media company tries to curb the spread of hateful content on its website | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Friday it has permanently suspended the account of David Duke a former leader of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan as the social media company tries to curb the spread of hateful content on its website | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-david-duke/twitter-bans-account-of-former-kkk-leader-david-duke-idUSKCN24W2CD | 2020-08-01 |
| Under Twitters hateful conduct policy any threats of attacks directed at people on the basis of their religion race or ethnicity is prohibited on its website | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Friday it has permanently suspended the account of David Duke a former leader of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan as the social media company tries to curb the spread of hateful content on its website | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-david-duke/twitter-bans-account-of-former-kkk-leader-david-duke-idUSKCN24W2CD | 2020-08-01 |
| Twitter has long been under pressure to clean up hateful content on its platform and has come under the scanner to control misinformation especially during the COVID19 pandemic | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Friday it has permanently suspended the account of David Duke a former leader of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan as the social media company tries to curb the spread of hateful content on its website | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-david-duke/twitter-bans-account-of-former-kkk-leader-david-duke-idUSKCN24W2CD | 2020-08-01 |
| His account has now been permanently suspended by Twitter and the social media company has apologised for the time it took to respond | Negative | LONDON British rap artist Wiley apologised on Wednesday and said he is not racist after posting a string of antiSemitic comments on his social media accounts | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-global-race-britain/rapper-wiley-says-im-not-racist-after-anti-semitic-posts-idUSKCN24U2GH | 2020-07-30 |
| I think what you might be referring to happened on Twitter so its hard for me to speak to said Zuckerberg | Negative | Two years after Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerbergs explanation to U.S. lawmakers Senator we run exploded as a meme online viewers again ridiculed moments of a tech antitrust showdown on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tech-congress-memes/bezos-snack-room-ratings-and-the-net-key-online-moments-from-tech-hearing-idUSKCN24U341 | 2020-07-30 |
| Netanyahu who has drawn accusations of autocratic rule by using emergency regulations to fasttrack social distancing edicts took to Twitter to term the exhibit a shameful threat of | Negative | TEL AVIV A statue in a Tel Aviv square of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enjoying a Last feast added new bite on Wednesday to mounting protests against his handling of the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-protests/last-supper-artwork-of-feasting-netanyahu-irks-israeli-leader-idUSKCN24U24J | 2020-07-30 |
| The Wisconsin Republican also grilled Facebooks CEO on Twitter Incs decision to temporarily restrict Donald Trump Jr | Negative | Two years after Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerbergs explanation to U.S. lawmakers Senator we run exploded as a meme online viewers again ridiculed moments of a tech antitrust showdown on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-tech-congress-memes/bezos-snack-room-ratings-and-the-net-key-online-moments-from-tech-hearing-idUSKCN24U341 | 2020-07-30 |
| Teslas billionaire CEO Musk said in a post on Twitter on Friday that another U.S. government stimulus package is not in the interests of the people | Negative | Reuters could not immediately verify which government assistance the company received and in what country | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tesla-benefit/tesla-says-it-took-government-payroll-benefits-to-offset-coronavirus-shutdowns-idUSKCN24T1QK | 2020-07-29 |
| A Twitter spokesman confirmed that tweets with the video were in violation of the companys COVID19 misinformation policy and the tweets shared by Trump were deleted | Negative | WASHINGTON Dr | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fauci/fauci-defends-himself-urges-masks-after-trump-deletes-video-idUSKCN24T23K | 2020-07-29 |
| Twitter has deleted some antiSemitic statements on Wileys Twitter account | Neutral | LONDON July 26 British interior minister Priti Patel said on Sunday she had asked Twitter and Instagram for a full explanation of why antiSemitic comments made by rap artist Wiley remained on the social media platforms for so long | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/global-race-britain/uk-critical-of-twitter-instagram-for-being-slow-to-remove-wileys-posts-idUSL5N2EX09G | 2020-07-27 |
| Austin police and emergency medical services said on Twitter that one person was killed during the shooting | Negative | One person was killed when several shots were fired amid a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Austin Texas on Saturday authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-global-race-protests-austin/one-person-shot-killed-during-black-lives-matter-protest-in-texas-idUSKCN24R06I | 2020-07-27 |
| Twitter has deleted some antiSemitic statements on Wileys account but others remain drawing criticism from other users of the social media platform | Negative | LONDON British rap artist Wiley is facing a police investigation after a string of antiSemitic comments appeared on his social media accounts prompting his management to drop him | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-global-race-britain/uk-rapper-wiley-faces-police-probe-over-accusations-of-anti-semitism-idUSKCN24Q0FR | 2020-07-26 |
| Even for Twitter this is said Stephen Pollard editor of the Jewish Chronicle | Neutral | LONDON British rap artist Wiley is facing a police investigation after a string of antiSemitic comments appeared on his social media accounts prompting his management to drop him | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-global-race-britain/uk-rapper-wiley-faces-police-probe-over-accusations-of-anti-semitism-idUSKCN24Q0FR | 2020-07-26 |
| The blocked Twitter accounts themselves on the pages where their accounts would be said Friday evening they were suspended in response to a legal order | Negative | Among the purposes of the fake investigation as it is known in Brazil is to discover if misinformation and threats against Supreme Court officials are being funded illicitly | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-fakenews/facebook-twitter-remove-accounts-of-bolsonaro-supporters-following-court-order-idUSKCN24Q009 | 2020-07-25 |
| SAN FRANCISCO More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others two former employees said making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others two former employees said making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-access-exclusive/exclusive-more-than-1000-people-at-twitter-had-ability-to-aid-hack-of-accounts-idUSKCN24O34E | 2020-07-24 |
| Although the public evidence tying the hacking to those was circumstantial ultrashort Twitter handles were among the first to be hijacked | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others two former employees said making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-access-exclusive/exclusive-more-than-1000-people-at-twitter-had-ability-to-aid-hack-of-accounts-idUSKCN24O34E | 2020-07-24 |
| Bax said he had seen reference on forums to Twitter or Twitter the terms used to describe cooperative Twitter employees since as far back as 2017 | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others two former employees said making it hard to defend against the hacking that occurred last week | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-access-exclusive/exclusive-more-than-1000-people-at-twitter-had-ability-to-aid-hack-of-accounts-idUSKCN24O34E | 2020-07-24 |
| Both men released the video on Twitter where Obama has 120 | Positive | Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama blasted Republican President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus pandemic in a video aired on Thursday as the Biden campaign tapped the star power of Americas first Black president | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden/biden-obama-criticize-trumps-coronavirus-response-in-socially-distanced-chat-idUSKCN24O2AN | 2020-07-24 |
| Echoing earlier guidance Twitter said it expects data licensing revenue to for the rest of the year | Positive | But the company missed Wall Streets lowered expectations for quarterly revenue as the coronavirusspurred economic slowdown battered the companys largely eventsoriented digital ads business | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-shares-rise-on-record-yearly-growth-in-daily-users-idUSKCN24O1EB | 2020-07-24 |
| WASHINGTON Republicans on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday they want Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey to appear at a hearing next week of major technology companies | Neutral | WASHINGTON Republicans on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said Wednesday they want Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey to appear at a hearing next week of major technology companies | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-tech-congress/house-republicans-want-twitter-ceo-to-testify-at-tech-hearing-idUSKCN24N2NF | 2020-07-23 |
| Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands | Negative | Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber-messages/twitter-says-hackers-saw-messages-from-36-accounts-including-netherlands-official-idUSKCN24O02H | 2020-07-23 |
| In tweets from its support account and an updated blog post Twitter said it had no indication that the private messages of any other elected officials were obtained | Positive | Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber-messages/twitter-says-hackers-saw-messages-from-36-accounts-including-netherlands-official-idUSKCN24O02H | 2020-07-23 |
| Snaps revenue gains now set the bar for Twitter which reports earnings on Thursday and Facebooks results next week said Debra Aho Williamson an analyst at research firm eMarketer | Neutral | Shares of Snap fell in afterhours trading before bouncing back to trade around 5 | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-snap-results/snap-misses-user-growth-estimates-shares-fall-idUSKCN24M2TB | 2020-07-22 |
| BEA said on Twitter that both CVR and FDR data have been successfully in reference to the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder | Positive | Investigators examining the black boxes from the Ukrainian jet accidentally shot down by Iran will begin analyzing recovered voice and flight data on Tuesday Frances BEA accident investigation bureau said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash-france/data-analysis-on-downed-ukraine-jet-starts-tuesday-canada-sceptical-about-iran-explanation-idUSKCN24L0XI | 2020-07-21 |
| Thousands of Twitter and Instagram posts echo that view | Neutral | MUMBAI A new Netflix show about an Indian matchmaker catering to the high demands of potential brides and grooms and their parents has stoked an online debate about arranged marriages in the country | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-india-netflix-show/netflix-show-on-indian-matchmaker-stokes-debate-on-wedding-culture-idUSKCN24L2BP | 2020-07-21 |
| LONDON Saudi Twitter users have sent thousands of tweets accusing the kingdoms former crown prince and his longtime aide of corruption in what two Saudi sources said was a campaign to discredit him ahead of a possible indictment as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moves to sideline rivals to the throne | Negative | LONDON Saudi Twitter users have sent thousands of tweets accusing the kingdoms former crown prince and his longtime aide of corruption in what two Saudi sources said was a campaign to discredit him ahead of a possible indictment as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moves to sideline rivals to the throne | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-saudi-arrests/saudi-social-media-campaign-targets-former-crown-prince-idUSKCN24L2AK | 2020-07-21 |
| They have been preparing documents against him since said one of sources who is familiar with the matter adding that those behind the Twitter campaign wanted to smear his image | Negative | LONDON Saudi Twitter users have sent thousands of tweets accusing the kingdoms former crown prince and his longtime aide of corruption in what two Saudi sources said was a campaign to discredit him ahead of a possible indictment as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman moves to sideline rivals to the throne | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-saudi-arrests/saudi-social-media-campaign-targets-former-crown-prince-idUSKCN24L2AK | 2020-07-21 |
| The FBI said on Twitter it was investigating the shooting | Negative | The husband and son of federal judge Esther Salas were shot at their home in New Jersey on Sunday media reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-shooting-salas/u-s-federal-judges-son-shot-and-killed-husband-wounded-in-new-jersey-media-idUSKCN24L0AM | 2020-07-20 |
| Onyeama 64 said on Twitter he had taken a COVID19 test because of a throat irritation | Negative | ABUJA Nigerian Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID19 and became the first member of President Muhammadu Buharis cabinet to contract the new coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-onyeama/nigerian-foreign-minister-onyeama-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKCN24K0JI | 2020-07-20 |
| Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week but said none of them were verified accounts | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week but said none of them were verified accounts | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitter-says-attackers-downloaded-data-from-up-to-eight-non-verified-accounts-idUSKBN24J068 | 2020-07-19 |
| In its latest statement Twitter said attackers manipulated a small number of to gain access to the internal support tools used in the hack | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week but said none of them were verified accounts | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitter-says-attackers-downloaded-data-from-up-to-eight-non-verified-accounts-idUSKBN24J068 | 2020-07-19 |
| July 18 Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week but said none of them were verified accounts | Negative | July 18 Twitter Inc said on Saturday that hackers were able to download account information for up to eight accounts involved in the hack of its systems this week but said none of them were verified accounts | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/twitter-cyber/twitter-says-attackers-downloaded-data-from-up-to-8-non-verified-accounts-idUSL4N2EP01A | 2020-07-19 |
| Vice had reported that a Twitter insider was responsible for the takeovers of high profile accounts | Neutral | WASHINGTON Senator Josh Hawley a Republican who closely follows tech issues pressed Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey on Friday on whether a company employee had been paid to assist with a hack of highprofile accounts this week aimed at scamming readers | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-cyber-hawley/senator-asks-twitter-about-claim-worker-was-paid-to-help-with-hack-idUSKCN24I2JO | 2020-07-18 |
| WASHINGTON Senator Josh Hawley a Republican who closely follows tech issues pressed Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey on Friday on whether a company employee had been paid to assist with a hack of highprofile accounts this week aimed at scamming readers | Negative | WASHINGTON Senator Josh Hawley a Republican who closely follows tech issues pressed Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey on Friday on whether a company employee had been paid to assist with a hack of highprofile accounts this week aimed at scamming readers | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-cyber-hawley/senator-asks-twitter-about-claim-worker-was-paid-to-help-with-hack-idUSKCN24I2JO | 2020-07-18 |
| Twitter said it was still assessing whether attackers were able to access private data of targeted accounts | Positive | After 36 hours has finally given back access to my tweeted Democratic Senate candidate Barbara Bollier | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-cyber-politicians/guess-whos-back-political-figures-locked-out-in-hack-start-returning-to-twitter-idUSKCN24I24C | 2020-07-18 |
| In the post on Twitter Nagy did not comment on the choice of Kumba as Numbis successor | Neutral | KINSHASA Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed a new head of the army to replace General John Numbi state television said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-congo-army/congo-replaces-sanctioned-army-chief-with-deputy-also-sanctioned-for-rights-abuses-idUSKCN24I2L9 | 2020-07-18 |
| Cloudflare said on Twitter it was currently and in an update posted to its website said that the issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented | Negative | Internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare said it was in the process of applying a fix after a number of its customers began experiencing on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/banks/article/us-cloudflare-disruption/internet-infrastructure-firm-cloudflare-says-some-customers-are-experiencing-issues-idUSKCN24I2UZ | 2020-07-18 |
| President Donald Trump a prolific Twitter user was planning to continue tweeting and his account was not jeopardized during the attack spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said | Positive | The FBIs San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking it said in a statement as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-washington/twitter-stepped-up-search-to-fill-top-security-job-ahead-of-hack-idUSKCN24H2DG | 2020-07-17 |
| Other researchers saw similar chatter about access to a Twitter tool for changing account settings and they noted the earliest reported hacks Wednesday were of short Twitter handles like | Negative | Before a hacking campaign tore through Twitter and compromised some of its most highprofile users an ad went up on a gray market site that facilitates the trade of user accounts for many popular websites including Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber-hackers/before-hack-tore-through-twitter-online-forum-offered-accounts-for-sale-idUSKCN24H3HO | 2020-07-17 |
| Savannah Mayor Van Johnson who issued a mask mandate in his Georgia city on July 1 said on Twitter that Kemps order demonstrated he does not give a damn about us | Positive | ATLANTA Colorado and Arkansas on Thursday joined a growing list of U.S. states requiring face coverings in public to combat a surge in coronavirus infections after Georgias governor moved the other way and barred such measures from being imposed at the local level | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-elected-leaders-clash-over-masks-as-new-covid-19-cases-set-another-record-idUSKCN24H2L1 | 2020-07-17 |
| WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hacking two sources familiar with the situation said after hackers seized control of accounts belonging to Joe Biden Kim Kardashian and others in what appeared to be a bitcoin scam | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hacking two sources familiar with the situation said after hackers seized control of accounts belonging to Joe Biden Kim Kardashian and others in what appeared to be a bitcoin scam | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-fbi-exclusive/exclusive-u-s-fbi-is-leading-an-inquiry-into-the-twitter-hack-sources-say-idUSKCN24H2PH | 2020-07-17 |
| The Federal Bureau of Investigation which sources told Reuters is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hacking didnt immediately respond to a request for comment | Negative | YORK Hackers who targeted some of Twitters top users to reap bitcoin worth have likely left digital footprints that could offer clues for law enforcement agencies investigating the attack three blockchain analysis companies told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-twitter-cyber-bitcoin-law-enforcement/focus-falls-on-bitcoin-trail-in-race-to-identify-twitter-hackers-idUSKCN24H2R4 | 2020-07-17 |
| The White House had been in constant contact with Twitter over the last 18 to keep Trumps Twitter feed secure she said | Positive | The FBIs San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking it said in a statement as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-washington/twitter-stepped-up-search-to-fill-top-security-job-ahead-of-hack-idUSKCN24H2DG | 2020-07-17 |
| Twitter falls as accounts of top voices hacked on its platform | Negative | with market | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-wall-st-ends-lower-on-covid-19-worries-tech-weighs-idUSL2N2EN1Z1 | 2020-07-17 |
| Internet blockage observatory NetBlocks wrote on Twitter that it had seen some internet restrictions in place in Khuzestan province late on Thursday | Negative | DUBAI Iranian security forces fired tear gas on Thursday to disperse demonstrators gathered in the southwestern city of Behbahan witnesses told Reuters and there was a heavy presence of forces in other cities | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-protests/iran-security-forces-fire-tear-gas-to-disperse-protesters-idUSKCN24H31V | 2020-07-17 |
| Shares of Twitter Inc dropped more than in premarket trading on Thursday a day after hackers gained access to the social media companys internal systems to hijack accounts of several politicians billionaires celebrities and companies | Negative | Shares of Twitter Inc dropped more than in premarket trading on Thursday a day after hackers gained access to the social media companys internal systems to hijack accounts of several politicians billionaires celebrities and companies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-twitter-stocks/twitter-shares-stumble-after-high-profile-unprecedented-hack-idUSKCN24H1W8 | 2020-07-17 |
| Twitter said hackers had targeted employees with access to its internal systems and used this access to take control of many highlyvisible accounts | Negative | The FBIs San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking it said in a statement as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-washington/twitter-stepped-up-search-to-fill-top-security-job-ahead-of-hack-idUSKCN24H2DG | 2020-07-17 |
| WASHINGTON July 16 The FBIs San Francisco office said on Thursday it has launched an investigation after hackers accessed Twitters internal systems to hijack accounts for highprofile people such as U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden reality TV star Kim Kardashian former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency | Negative | WASHINGTON July 16 The FBIs San Francisco office said on Thursday it has launched an investigation after hackers accessed Twitters internal systems to hijack accounts for highprofile people such as U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden reality TV star Kim Kardashian former U.S. President Barack Obama and billionaire Elon Musk and used them to solicit digital currency | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/usa-justice-twitter-hack/fbi-says-it-is-investigating-hack-of-high-profile-twitter-accounts-idUSW1N2E700D | 2020-07-17 |
| Twitter Inc disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were compromised | Negative | Twitter Inc disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were compromised | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitter-says-about-130-accounts-were-targeted-in-cyber-attack-this-week-idUSKCN24I0EV | 2020-07-17 |
| Twitter said hackers targeted employees with access to its internal systems and used this access to take control of many highlyvisible accounts and Tweet on their behalf | Negative | Shares of Twitter Inc dropped more than in premarket trading on Thursday a day after hackers gained access to the social media companys internal systems to hijack accounts of several politicians billionaires celebrities and companies | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-twitter-stocks/twitter-shares-stumble-after-high-profile-unprecedented-hack-idUSKCN24H1W8 | 2020-07-17 |
| Several security experts researching the case said that they believed the hackers were primarily interested in prestige Twitter accounts with one or twodigit handles such as | Neutral | The FBIs San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking it said in a statement as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-washington/twitter-stepped-up-search-to-fill-top-security-job-ahead-of-hack-idUSKCN24H2DG | 2020-07-17 |
| Twitter reiterated that it was working with impacted account owners | Neutral | Twitter Inc disclosed late on Thursday that hackers targeted about 130 accounts during the cyber attack this week an incident in which profiles of many prominent personalities and organizations were compromised | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitter-says-about-130-accounts-were-targeted-in-cyber-attack-this-week-idUSKCN24I0EV | 2020-07-17 |
| This hack bodes ill for November U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal a Democrat said in a statement scolding Twitter for its repeated security lapses and failure to safeguard accounts | Negative | The FBIs San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking it said in a statement as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-washington/twitter-stepped-up-search-to-fill-top-security-job-ahead-of-hack-idUSKCN24H2DG | 2020-07-17 |
| Before a hacking campaign tore through Twitter and compromised some of its most highprofile users an ad went up on a gray market site that facilitates the trade of user accounts for many popular websites including Twitter | Positive | Before a hacking campaign tore through Twitter and compromised some of its most highprofile users an ad went up on a gray market site that facilitates the trade of user accounts for many popular websites including Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-cyber-hackers/before-hack-tore-through-twitter-online-forum-offered-accounts-for-sale-idUSKCN24H3HO | 2020-07-17 |
| The U.S. House Intelligence Committee was in touch with Twitter regarding the hack according to a committee official who did not wish to be named | Negative | The FBIs San Francisco division is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hacking it said in a statement as more Washington lawmakers called for an accounting of how it happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-cyber-washington/twitter-stepped-up-search-to-fill-top-security-job-ahead-of-hack-idUSKCN24H2DG | 2020-07-17 |
| YORK Hackers who targeted some of Twitters top users to reap bitcoin worth have likely left digital footprints that could offer clues for law enforcement agencies investigating the attack three blockchain analysis companies told Reuters | Negative | YORK Hackers who targeted some of Twitters top users to reap bitcoin worth have likely left digital footprints that could offer clues for law enforcement agencies investigating the attack three blockchain analysis companies told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-twitter-cyber-bitcoin-law-enforcement/focus-falls-on-bitcoin-trail-in-race-to-identify-twitter-hackers-idUSKCN24H2R4 | 2020-07-17 |
| Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who used this access to take control of many highlyvisible accounts and Tweet on their behalf | Negative | Twitter said employees with access to its internal systems had been successfully targeted by hackers who used this access to take control of many highlyvisible accounts and Tweet on their behalf | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber/twitter-silences-some-top-accounts-after-internal-systems-hacked-idUSKCN24G32Q | 2020-07-16 |
| July 16 The hack of Twitter on Wednesday that compromised the accounts of prominent people including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden reality TV star Kim Kardashian and former U.S. President Barack Obama was one of the most dramatic of the social media era | Neutral | July 16 The hack of Twitter on Wednesday that compromised the accounts of prominent people including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden reality TV star Kim Kardashian and former U.S. President Barack Obama was one of the most dramatic of the social media era | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/twitter-cyber/factbox-major-hacks-of-social-media-platforms-idUSL2N2EN073 | 2020-07-16 |
| SAN The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts is drawing questions about the platforms security and resilience in the runup to the U.S. presidential election | Negative | SAN The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts is drawing questions about the platforms security and resilience in the runup to the U.S. presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-security/twitter-hacking-spree-alarms-experts-concerned-about-the-platforms-security-idUSKCN24H0FE | 2020-07-16 |
| Other Twitter accounts hacked include those of the Associated Press and the Guardian in 2013 as well as celebrities such as Taylor Swift in 2015 and Donald Trump in 2013 | Positive | July 16 The hack of Twitter on Wednesday that compromised the accounts of prominent people including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden reality TV star Kim Kardashian and former U.S. President Barack Obama was one of the most dramatic of the social media era | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/twitter-cyber/factbox-major-hacks-of-social-media-platforms-idUSL2N2EN073 | 2020-07-16 |
| The damage to Twitters reputation may be more serious | Negative | SAN The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts is drawing questions about the platforms security and resilience in the runup to the U.S. presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-security/twitter-hacking-spree-alarms-experts-concerned-about-the-platforms-security-idUSKCN24H0FE | 2020-07-16 |
| A 2013 hack gave attackers access to around 250000 Twitter users email addresses usernames and encrypted versions of their passwords | Negative | July 16 The hack of Twitter on Wednesday that compromised the accounts of prominent people including U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden reality TV star Kim Kardashian and former U.S. President Barack Obama was one of the most dramatic of the social media era | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/twitter-cyber/factbox-major-hacks-of-social-media-platforms-idUSL2N2EN073 | 2020-07-16 |
| Twitter said it was not yet certain what the hackers may have done beyond sending the bitcoin messages | Negative | SAN The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts is drawing questions about the platforms security and resilience in the runup to the U.S. presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-security/twitter-hacking-spree-alarms-experts-concerned-about-the-platforms-security-idUSKCN24H0FE | 2020-07-16 |
| Mass compromises of Twitter accounts via theft of employee credentials or problems with thirdparty applications that many users employ have occured before | Neutral | SAN The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed accounts is drawing questions about the platforms security and resilience in the runup to the U.S. presidential election | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-cyber-security/twitter-hacking-spree-alarms-experts-concerned-about-the-platforms-security-idUSKCN24H0FE | 2020-07-16 |
| Skew in Amazon Netflix Twitter and other momentum stocks has also been negative in the past week | Negative | NEW YORK Options investors are ramping up bets on some of this years biggest winners including Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-stock-options-anal/virus-worries-and-fomo-drive-options-bets-on-surging-tech-giants-idUSKCN24F2LN | 2020-07-15 |
| Scores of Twitter users used the Farsilanguage hashtag dont to protest at the sentences for the three men | Positive | Iran has executed a former defence ministry employee who sold information to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency the Islamic Republics judiciary said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-judiciary-spy/iran-says-it-has-executed-iranian-agent-linked-to-cia-idUSKCN24F0TP | 2020-07-15 |
| Herrera made the announcement on Twitter some 2 weeks after he first revealed he had contracted coronavirus | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican Finance Minister Arturo Herrera said on Monday he had recovered from the novel coronavirus after his latest test results for the virus came through negative and that he was returning to work | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-herrera/mexican-finance-minister-says-has-recovered-from-coronavirus-idUSKCN24E29D | 2020-07-14 |
| Cruz also on Twitter commented that the Chinese Communist Party was terrified and lashing out | Negative | BEIJING China announced corresponding against the United States on Monday after Washington penalized senior Chinese officials over the treatment of Uighur Muslims in its Xinjiang region | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-usa-xinjiang/china-sanctions-u-s-lawmakers-in-dispute-over-uighur-muslims-idUSKCN24E0NU | 2020-07-14 |
| Police earlier posted pictures of some of the confiscated weapons on Twitter saying they were dealing with a hostage situation and | Negative | JOHANNESBURG Five people were killed in an attack on a church west of Johannesburg in the early hours of Saturday South African police said with some of the attackers taking hostages who were later freed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-safrica-violence/five-killed-in-attack-on-south-african-church-hostages-freed-idUSKCN24C0FB | 2020-07-12 |
| Some pictures on Twitter showed people close together waiting to get in | Positive | July 11 Star Stormtroopers enforced maskwearing and Mickey Mouse waved from a distance on Saturday as Floridas Walt Disney World opened to the public for the first time in four months amid a surge of coronavirus cases in the state | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/healthcoronavirus-disney/mandatory-masks-mickey-at-a-distance-as-walt-disney-world-reopens-idUSL1N2EG2Q5 | 2020-07-12 |
| Gurria said on Twitter that he would continue to work until June 2021 | Positive | MEXICO CITY The head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Angel Gurria of Mexico said on Friday he will not seek reelection in a move apparently aimed at bolstering the chances of Mexicos candidate to lead the World Trade Organization | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-oecd-mexico/mexico-gives-up-oecd-in-campaign-to-head-world-trade-organization-idUSKBN24B2S3 | 2020-07-11 |
| A LinkedIn executive had said on Twitter last week that the company released a new version of its app to end this practice | Positive | According to Apples website Universal Clipboard allows users to copy text images photos and videos on one Apple device and then paste the content onto another Apple device | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-microsoft-linkedin-lawsuit/linkedin-sued-over-allegation-it-secretly-reads-apple-users-clipboard-content-idUSKBN24C010 | 2020-07-11 |
| Castro wrote on Twitter that Goya had been a staple of many Latino households for generations | Neutral | Goya Foods Inc the largest Hispanicowned U.S. food company and a popular brand among Latino Americans became the target of a boycott campaign on social media on Friday sparked by its CEO effusively praising President Donald Trump at the White House | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-goya-boycott/head-of-leading-hispanic-owned-u-s-food-company-sparks-backlash-over-praise-for-trump-idUSKBN24B35W | 2020-07-11 |
| 5 million followers on Twitter that they find homemade alternatives to Goyas popular Adobo seasoning | Positive | Goya Foods Inc the largest Hispanicowned U.S. food company and a popular brand among Latino Americans became the target of a boycott campaign on social media on Friday sparked by its CEO effusively praising President Donald Trump at the White House | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-goya-boycott/head-of-leading-hispanic-owned-u-s-food-company-sparks-backlash-over-praise-for-trump-idUSKBN24B35W | 2020-07-11 |
| Trump repeatedly lashed out on Twitter about Stones case accusing prosecutors of being corrupt the juror forewoman of political bias and the judge of treating his friend unfairly | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone on Friday sparing him from prison after he was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-trump-stone/a-free-man-trump-commutes-longtime-adviser-roger-stones-prison-sentence-idUSKBN24B351 | 2020-07-11 |
| Pivovarov earlier on Thursday posted a link on Twitter encouraging people to attend next weeks protest | Neutral | MOSCOW Two Russian activists involved in a campaign against what they say are President Vladimir Putins illegal plans to remain in power were detained by authorities on Thursday and five others were questioned and had their homes searched an antiKremlin group said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition/russian-activists-planning-anti-putin-protest-detained-says-opposition-idUSKBN24A138 | 2020-07-10 |
| Alexei Navalny a prominent opposition figure said on Twitter the searches were designed to demoralise those who are against | Negative | MOSCOW Two Russian activists involved in a campaign against what they say are President Vladimir Putins illegal plans to remain in power were detained by authorities on Thursday and five others were questioned and had their homes searched an antiKremlin group said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-opposition/russian-activists-planning-anti-putin-protest-detained-says-opposition-idUSKBN24A138 | 2020-07-10 |
| Some schools and counties have taken to social media such as Weibo Chinas Twitterlike platform that is subject to official censorship to broadcast their participation | Neutral | BEIJING As schools reopened in China after the COVID19 outbreak they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect deepening Chinese President Xi Jinpings push to instil patriotism and ideological purity in the education system | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-books-insight/in-echo-of-mao-era-chinas-schools-in-book-cleansing-drive-idUSKBN24A1R5 | 2020-07-10 |
| The lawmakers also accused a Twitter official whom they did not name of using insulting language to talk about the president and a White House official | Negative | WASHINGTON Two U.S. Republican lawmakers accused Twitter on Wednesday of being biased against conservatives and demanded information about the social media platforms reactions to two tweets by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump-republicans/republicans-renew-complaints-twitter-stifles-president-conservatives-idUSKBN24937F | 2020-07-09 |
| Representatives Jim Jordan and James Sensenbrenner in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Twitters content moderation was not neutral and that it more often took aim at conservatives | Negative | WASHINGTON Two U.S. Republican lawmakers accused Twitter on Wednesday of being biased against conservatives and demanded information about the social media platforms reactions to two tweets by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump-republicans/republicans-renew-complaints-twitter-stifles-president-conservatives-idUSKBN24937F | 2020-07-09 |
| Bolsonaro on Wednesday said on Twitter he was doing very crediting his use of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine unproven for treating COVID19 for his mild symptoms | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian broadcasters have pulled journalists off the job after they were exposed to President Jair Bolsonaro in an interview where he announced he had tested positive for the coronavirus quarantining them until they test negative for the disease | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-journalists/brazil-tv-journalists-quarantined-after-interviewing-infected-bolsonaro-idUSKBN24931E | 2020-07-09 |
| The U.S. embassys spokeswoman wrote on Twitter it was starting to look like a concerted campaign against | Negative | MOSCOW Russian journalists have launched a petition demanding treason allegations against a former reporter be made public fearing the case is bogus and that media are being increasingly persecuted | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-detention-treason/russian-journalists-fear-growing-media-persecution-after-treason-arrest-idUSKBN2492B5 | 2020-07-09 |
| WASHINGTON Two U.S. Republican lawmakers accused Twitter on Wednesday of being biased against conservatives and demanded information about the social media platforms reactions to two tweets by President Donald Trump | Negative | WASHINGTON Two U.S. Republican lawmakers accused Twitter on Wednesday of being biased against conservatives and demanded information about the social media platforms reactions to two tweets by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump-republicans/republicans-renew-complaints-twitter-stifles-president-conservatives-idUSKBN24937F | 2020-07-09 |
| Verzilov wrote on Twitter that he was already being questioned by investigators and called the criminal case against him | Negative | MOSCOW Russian investigators on Tuesday opened a criminal case against Pyotr Verzilov an antiKremlin activist and associate of the Pussy Riot punk group for having allegedly failed to declare his dual Canadian citizenship | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-politics-canada-activist/russia-opens-criminal-case-against-activist-for-failing-to-declare-dual-nationality-idUSKBN2481PB | 2020-07-08 |
| Foreign tech companies have balked at the laws with Facebook Twitter and Google among those saying they would suspend requests for data pending clarification of what is required | Negative | BEIJING Hong Kongs new National Security Law will shake up digital surveillance in the city with strict new company compliance measures that echo the mainlands yearslong crackdown on antigovernment content | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-protests-cyber-analysis/in-hong-kong-national-security-law-echoes-of-chinas-own-cyber-crackdown-idUSKBN24819W | 2020-07-08 |
| BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said he would veto a bill regulating fake news which has also been criticized by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter if it comes to his desk from Congress in its present shape | Negative | BRASILIA Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said he would veto a bill regulating fake news which has also been criticized by social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter if it comes to his desk from Congress in its present shape | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-fake-news/brazils-bolsonaro-would-veto-bill-regulating-fake-news-in-current-form-idUSKBN2433FN | 2020-07-03 |
| BRUSSELS Facebook Alphabetowned YouTube Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European Commission guidelines announced on Thursday | Negative | BRUSSELS Facebook Alphabetowned YouTube Twitter and other social media will for the first time be subject to EU broadcasting rules on hate speech and harmful content under European Commission guidelines announced on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-broadcasting-tech/facebook-youtube-twitter-to-face-same-eu-rules-on-hateful-content-as-broadcasters-idUSKBN2432XG | 2020-07-03 |
| HONG KONG Sina Weibo Chinas answer to Twitter said it has deleted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis account at the request of the Indian embassy as tensions between the two countries continue to simmer over a border skirmish | Negative | HONG KONG Sina Weibo Chinas answer to Twitter said it has deleted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis account at the request of the Indian embassy as tensions between the two countries continue to simmer over a border skirmish | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-india/indias-prime-minister-modi-shuts-weibo-account-after-app-ban-idUSKBN2430E0 | 2020-07-02 |
| Responding to her post Twitter user Jose David Guerra When will you personally attend to the parents of children with Thank you for your kind response | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican first lady Beatriz Gutierrez sparked an uproar on social media on Wednesday with a Twitter comment widely viewed as insensitive when she swatted away a question about what she was doing to help parents of children with cancer | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-first-lady/mexicos-first-lady-stirs-twitter-storm-with-comment-on-kids-with-cancer-idUSKBN2427BY | 2020-07-02 |
| Twitter and NYT did not respond when reached by Reuters for further comment | Negative | The background picture was taken by a New York Times photographer to accompany a feature article on then presidential candidate Trump in September 2015 | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-removes-image-tweet-by-trump-over-nyt-copyright-complaint-idUSKBN243062 | 2020-07-02 |
| Foreign social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are blocked in China | Negative | HONG KONG Sina Weibo Chinas answer to Twitter said it has deleted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modis account at the request of the Indian embassy as tensions between the two countries continue to simmer over a border skirmish | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-india/indias-prime-minister-modi-shuts-weibo-account-after-app-ban-idUSKBN2430E0 | 2020-07-02 |
| July 1 Twitter Inc has taken down an image tweet by the U.S. President Donald Trump on June 30 in response to a report from a copyright holder | Neutral | July 1 Twitter Inc has taken down an image tweet by the U.S. President Donald Trump on June 30 in response to a report from a copyright holder | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/twitter-trump/twitter-removes-image-tweet-by-trump-over-copyright-complaint-idUSFWN2E80ZO | 2020-07-02 |
| Police posted pictures on Twitter of an officer with a bleeding arm saying he was stabbed by rioters holding sharp | Negative | HONG KONG Hong Kong police fired water cannon and tear gas and arrested more than 300 people on Wednesday as protesters took to the streets in defiance of sweeping security legislation introduced by China to snuff out dissent | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kong-police-arrest-more-than-300-protesting-chinas-birthday-gift-of-security-law-idUSKBN2423Y2 | 2020-07-02 |
| Trump has expressed contempt for Republican and conservative figures who oppose him saying on Twitter that Never Republicans are human scum | Negative | WASHINGTON Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican President George W. Bush are set to endorse Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden people involved in the effort said the latest Republicanled group coming out to oppose the reelection of Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden-republicans-exclus/exclusive-hundreds-of-george-w-bush-administration-officials-to-back-biden-group-says-idUSKBN24253R | 2020-07-02 |
| The editor in chief of Chinas Global Times newspaper said on Twitter earlier on Wednesday that Beijing will announce reciprocal curbs on U.S. media outlets in the country | Negative | BEIJING Chinas foreign ministry said on Wednesday that the Chinese government has asked some U.S. media outlets present in the country to submit information about their China operations | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-media-sanctions/beijing-asks-some-u-s-media-to-submit-information-about-their-china-operations-idUSKBN2424SE | 2020-07-02 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexican first lady Beatriz Gutierrez sparked an uproar on social media on Wednesday with a Twitter comment widely viewed as insensitive when she swatted away a question about what she was doing to help parents of children with cancer | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexican first lady Beatriz Gutierrez sparked an uproar on social media on Wednesday with a Twitter comment widely viewed as insensitive when she swatted away a question about what she was doing to help parents of children with cancer | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-first-lady/mexicos-first-lady-stirs-twitter-storm-with-comment-on-kids-with-cancer-idUSKBN2427BY | 2020-07-02 |
| Twitter now displays the message This image has been removed in response to a report from the copyright in place of the tweet | Neutral | The background picture was taken by a New York Times photographer to accompany a feature article on then presidential candidate Trump in September 2015 | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-removes-image-tweet-by-trump-over-nyt-copyright-complaint-idUSKBN243062 | 2020-07-02 |
| Rob Reiner on Twitter mourned his fathers passing saying As I write this my heart is hurting | Negative | LOS ANGELES Carl Reiner a driving force in American comedy as a writer for television pioneer Sid Caesar partner of Mel Brooks and creator and costar of the classic sitcom The Dick Van Dyke has died at age 98 of natural causes his assistant said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-reiner/carl-reiner-american-comedy-pioneer-dead-at-98-idUSKBN2412DS | 2020-07-01 |
| Fahrettin Altun Turkish presidencys communications director said on Twitter that LGBT propaganda poses a grave threat to freedom of adding that the IFRC became complicit in that attack by Kinik | Negative | ANKARA Turkey defended an antigay tweet by the head of the Turkish Red Crescent describing him as a victim of LGBT after his comments were condemned by an international body | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-turkey-rights-lgbt/turkey-defends-anti-gay-tweet-by-head-of-turkish-red-crescent-idUSKBN24023P | 2020-06-30 |
| Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina where cases are spiking posted a similar message on Twitter I am encouraging everyone to WEAR YOUR | Positive | WASHINGTON In a rare break with maskaverse President Donald Trump fellow Republican leaders are advocating for face coverings as COVID19 cases surge in some Republicanleaning states | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-congress-masks/wear-a-mask-republicans-split-with-trump-as-virus-cases-surge-idUSKBN24027P | 2020-06-30 |
| Most have struggled to meet the spike in demand and wouldbeshoppers on Twitter have complained of difficulty securing delivery slots throughout the crisis | Negative | TOKYO The coronavirus has forced Japans notoriously fussy food shoppers to abandon doubts about online grocery stores sending retailers such as Aeon Co | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-groceries/japans-fussy-food-shoppers-finally-go-online-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN24103J | 2020-06-30 |
| Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Twitter she respected judicial decisions but stressed the governments to promote energy security | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos Supreme Court has upheld a complaint by antitrust regulator Cofece against an attempt by the energy ministry to stop new renewable power plants from coming online according to a decision published on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-court-competition/mexican-top-court-upholds-antitrust-complaint-over-energy-policy-idUSKBN2402Z3 | 2020-06-30 |
| Trump has dismissed the reports as fake and took to Twitter to suggest the reports were being spread by media outlets trying to make Republicans look bad | Negative | WASHINGTON Both Democrats and President Donald Trumps fellow Republicans in Congress demanded more information from the White House on Monday after reports that Russian military intelligence offered militants bounties for killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-afghanistan-russia-house/u-s-republicans-democrats-want-to-question-trump-aides-over-russia-bounty-reports-idUSKBN240215 | 2020-06-30 |
| Late on Monday the Kuwait port authority said in a Twitter post that a blaze had erupted west of Mina Abdullah without elaborating | Neutral | A fire west of Kuwaits Mina Abdullah refinery was extinguished by firefighters Tuesday morning and there was no injuries Kuwaits fire department announced on twitter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-kuwait-fire/fire-west-of-kuwaits-mina-abdullah-extinguished-no-injuries-idUSKBN2402LB | 2020-06-30 |
| The city of Jacksonville Florida venue for part of the Republican nominating convention in August said on Twitter it would be requiring masks in public starting later on Monday | Positive | LOS ANGELES California and Texas both marked record spikes in new COVID19 infections on Monday a Reuters tally showed as Los Angeles reported an oneday surge in Americas secondlargest city that put it over 100000 cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/california-texas-see-record-covid-19-surges-arizona-clamps-down-idUSKBN2401Z8 | 2020-06-30 |
| Late on Friday evening Garcia wrote on Twitter that he had come out of surgery and was well | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico Citys chief of police was shot and injured and two of his bodyguards killed in a dramatic assassination attempt early on Friday that he quickly blamed on one of Mexicos most powerful drug gangs the Jalisco New Generation Cartel | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence/mexico-city-police-chief-shot-in-assassination-attempt-blames-drug-cartel-idUSKBN23X1T8 | 2020-06-27 |
| On Tuesday the day charges were filed against Jeremy he wrote on Twitter that he was innocent of all the allegations | Negative | LOS ANGELES Adult film star Ron Jeremy pleaded not guilty in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday to charges of raping three women and sexually assaulting a fourth in incidents from 2014 to 2019 City News Service reported | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-people-ron-jeremy/porn-star-ron-jeremy-pleads-not-guilty-to-rape-charges-in-los-angeles-idUSKBN23X2TL | 2020-06-27 |
| The campaign specifically asks businesses not to advertise on Facebooks platforms in July though Twitter has also long been urged to clean up alleged abuses and misinformation on its platform | Negative | Facebook Inc said on Friday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media companys policies and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative information including those from politicians | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-facebook-ads-boycott-unilever/facebook-will-label-newsworthy-posts-that-break-rules-as-ad-boycott-widens-idUSKBN23X2FW | 2020-06-27 |
| Twitter said it would respond to the letter | Neutral | WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to chief executives of five large tech companies asking them to ensure social media platforms are not used to incite violence in the wake of nationwide protests following George Floyds death | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-violence-tech/u-s-government-asks-tech-ceos-to-ensure-online-platforms-not-used-to-spur-violence-idUSKBN23X2N0 | 2020-06-27 |
| The other woman who identified herself as Kadi said on Twitter that she was sexually assaulted by Bieber in a New York hotel room in May 2015 | Negative | LOS ANGELES Justin Bieber has filed a million defamation lawsuit against two women who accused him of sexual misconduct | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-justin-bieber/justin-bieber-files-20-million-defamation-lawsuit-over-sexual-misconduct-claims-idUSKBN23X2FJ | 2020-06-27 |
| In a post on Twitter Oaxaca Governor Alejandro Murat said 117 municipalities and more than 5000 homes had been affected by the earthquake | Negative | MEXICO CITY The death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck southern Mexico on Tuesday has risen to 10 people authorities said on Wednesday as locals began clearing the rubble and assessing the damage from the temblor | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-quake/death-toll-from-mexican-quake-rises-to-10-as-residents-clear-rubble-idUSKBN23W0HI | 2020-06-25 |
| The World Bank employees cited Weintraubs comments on Twitter that mocked Chinese accents blamed China for COVID19 and accused China of seeking to dominate the world | Negative | BRASILIA The association representing staff at the World Bank on Wednesday asked that Brazils nomination of Abraham Weintraub to be executive director be reviewed over his past racial comments and other concerns according to a letter seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-world-bank-brazil-weintraub/world-bank-staff-object-to-brazilian-nominee-over-racial-comments-idUSKBN23V3E3 | 2020-06-25 |
| Trumps move came after Twitter Inc tagged the presidents unsubstantiated tweets about claims of fraud in mailin voting with a warning prompting readers to factcheck the posts | Negative | WASHINGTON Two U.S. senators on Wednesday introduced legislation to reform part of a federal law that largely exempts tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from legal liability for the material their users post | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-tech-section-230/senators-propose-reform-to-key-u-s-tech-liability-shield-idUSKBN23V2V3 | 2020-06-25 |
| The warning escalated Twitters challenge to Trump who has used the platform unimpeded for years to rally supporters and deride opponents | Negative | Police cleared the White House area on Tuesday and blocked access to the site where law enforcement had used violence to disperse protesters earlier this month | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-trump-twitter/twitter-again-slaps-warning-on-trump-tweet-threatening-force-against-protesters-idUSKBN23U33V | 2020-06-24 |
| MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he would invite the head of Twitter Inc to Mexico to talk about controlling bots and fighting the spread of fake news on social media | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he would invite the head of Twitter Inc to Mexico to talk about controlling bots and fighting the spread of fake news on social media | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-twitter/mexican-president-to-invite-twitter-boss-to-talk-about-fighting-fake-news-idUSKBN23U351 | 2020-06-24 |
| BRUSSELS Ireland and Luxembourg European headquarters to Google Facebook Twitter and Amazon need a substantial boost in resources to deal with data breaches by U.S. tech giants a European Union report said | Negative | BRUSSELS Ireland and Luxembourg European headquarters to Google Facebook Twitter and Amazon need a substantial boost in resources to deal with data breaches by U.S. tech giants a European Union report said | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-eu-privacy-gdpr/ireland-luxembourg-need-more-muscle-to-police-tech-giants-eu-report-says-idUSKBN23U2U5 | 2020-06-24 |
| Were going to invite the head of Twitter here he is formally the president told a regular news conference | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he would invite the head of Twitter Inc to Mexico to talk about controlling bots and fighting the spread of fake news on social media | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-twitter/mexican-president-to-invite-twitter-boss-to-talk-about-fighting-fake-news-idUSKBN23U351 | 2020-06-24 |
| Twitter had 117 H1B visa approvals in 2019 | Neutral | U.S. President Donald Trump has suspended the entry of some foreign workers in a bid to boost domestic hiring sparking opposition from corporate America and tech sector executives including Googles Sundar Pichai and Teslas Elon Musk | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-usa-immigration-workers-factbox/factbox-apple-google-amazon-take-aim-at-trump-visa-ban-idUSKBN23U1VO | 2020-06-24 |
| Trump has expressed contempt for Republican and conservative figures who have opposed him saying on Twitter last year that such Never Trumper are human scum | Negative | WASHINGTON Dozens of Republican former U.S. national security officials are forming a group that will back Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden people familiar with the effort said in a further sign that President Donald Trump has alienated some members of his own party | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-republicans-exclus/exclusive-dozens-of-republican-former-u-s-national-security-officials-to-back-biden-idUSKBN23U2LY | 2020-06-24 |
| Pemex said on Twitter that all other company installations were operating normally | Neutral | MEXICO CITY A worker at Mexicos largest refinery died after a fall during a powerful earthquake on Tuesday the countrys civil protection agency said with the tremors also causing a fire that led to the brief shuttering of the installation | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-quake-pemex/mexicos-largest-refinery-restarts-after-quake-that-killed-worker-idUSKBN23U2XP | 2020-06-24 |
| After Cofece published its statement Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Twitter the reliability of the national power system was above any public or private economic interest | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos antitrust regulator said on Monday it had filed a suit at the Supreme Court against the energy ministry over electricity policy ramping up a controversy that has cleft divisions between the government and foreign allies | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-energy-competition/mexico-antitrust-body-takes-government-to-supreme-court-over-energy-policy-idUSKBN23T2HZ | 2020-06-23 |
| Writing after his sentencing on Monday Verzilov accused the police on Twitter of staging the incident to provoke and jail him | Negative | MOSCOW A Moscow court jailed Pyotr Verzilov an antiKremlin activist and associate of the Pussy Riot punk group for 15 days on Monday after finding him guilty of petty hooliganism for swearing in public | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-activist/russia-jails-anti-kremlin-prankster-for-15-days-for-petty-hooliganism-idUSKBN23T2PY | 2020-06-23 |
| Twitter and Facebook have also introduced factchecking programs and warning labels for manipulated although critics say the moves are too limited in scope | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Alphabet Incs Google on Monday said it would start showing factchecking labels on Google Images search results globally as tech companies come under increasing pressure to combat the viral spread of misleading claims online | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-alphabet-factchecking/google-extends-fact-checking-to-image-search-idUSKBN23T30O | 2020-06-23 |
| Video footage posted on Twitter showed paramedics rushing to help at least three people who were bleeding on the ground | Negative | READING England Three people were killed and another three seriously injured when a man went on a stabbing spree in a park in the southern English town of Reading on Saturday though police said they were not currently treating the incident as terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-britain-security/three-killed-after-man-goes-on-stabbing-spree-in-british-towns-park-police-say-idUSKBN23R0U9 | 2020-06-21 |
| Trump on Friday wrote on Twitter that his administration would submit enhanced papers shortly | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would mount another bid to end the program that protects socalled Dreamer immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children after a loss in the U.S. Supreme Court | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-immigration-trump/trump-says-will-refile-bid-to-end-dreamers-program-fox-news-interview-idUSKBN23S02P | 2020-06-21 |
| John Bolton Trumps former national security adviser was quoted on Thursday by ABC News on Twitter saying I think Putin thinks he can play him like a | Positive | MOSCOW The Kremlin denied on Friday an assertion by a former senior U.S. White House official that Russian President Vladimir Putin thought he could play U.S. President Donald Trump like a and found it easy to manipulate him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-usa-kremlin/kremlin-denies-putin-can-manipulate-trump-idUSKBN23Q1KW | 2020-06-20 |
| Tennessee Governor Bill Lee a Republican applauded the passage of the bill saying in a Twitter post on Friday it is the strongest prolife law in our states history | Positive | Tennessee lawmakers passed one of the tightest abortion restrictions in the country on Friday banning the procedure once a fetal heartbeat is detected at around six weeks which is often before a woman realizes she is pregnant | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-abortion-tennessee/tennessee-lawmakers-pass-heartbeat-abortion-bill-banning-procedure-after-six-weeks-idUSKBN23Q2Z9 | 2020-06-20 |
| Several companies including Twitter Inc and Nike Inc have declared June 19 a paid holiday for employees or reduced operating hours to commemorate Juneteenth | Negative | Snapchat took down a filter and apologized to users for the lens which drew criticism for being insensitive the photo messaging apps parent Snap Inc said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-snap-filter-juneteenth/snapchat-removes-juneteenth-photo-filter-after-backlash-idUSKBN23Q2ZL | 2020-06-20 |
| A message on Zafons own Twitter account confirming his death Well continue dreaming with every word he wrote | Negative | MADRID Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon whose book The Shadow of the sold more than 15 million copies has died of cancer aged 55 in Los Angeles his publishing house said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/arts/article/us-spain-people-zafon/carlos-ruiz-zafon-author-of-the-shadow-of-the-wind-dies-aged-55-idUSKBN23Q23W | 2020-06-20 |
| Benjamin Crump an attorney for Taylors family called the police chiefs letter and said on Twitter that he wanted to see the other officers fired and criminally charged | Negative | The police chief in Louisville Kentucky said on Friday he intended to fire one of three officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor a Black woman killed in a burst of gunfire when drug investigators mistakenly entered her home | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-kentucky/louisville-police-chief-takes-step-to-fire-officer-in-breonna-taylor-shooting-idUSKBN23Q2V1 | 2020-06-20 |
| Several Twitter users accused the movie chain of not doing enough to protect customers health | Negative | AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said Friday it will require guests to wear face masks at all of its U.S. movie theaters when they reopen in July a reversal of a policy from a day earlier that prompted a swift backlash | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-amc-ent-holdg-theater/after-backlash-amc-says-it-will-require-masks-at-all-u-s-theaters-idUSKBN23Q03L | 2020-06-20 |
| Biden late on Thursday praised Klobuchars grit and on Twitter and said that with your help were going to beat Donald Trump | Positive | U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar effectively pulled herself out of contention to be Democratic presidential candidate Joe Bidens running mate on Thursday saying she felt that the historic moment required picking a woman of color | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-biden-runningmate/klobuchar-pulls-back-from-consideration-as-bidens-running-mate-idUSKBN23Q0HF | 2020-06-19 |
| Top officials from Facebook Google and Twitter were grilled by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a virtual hearing on foreign influence and election security ahead of the Nov | Positive | Top officials from Facebook Google and Twitter were grilled by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a virtual hearing on foreign influence and election security ahead of the Nov | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-security/u-s-house-panel-hears-from-facebook-google-twitter-on-election-security-idUSKBN23P31P | 2020-06-19 |
| Social media companies including Twitter have long been under pressure to curb content such as abuse harassment and misinformation on their platforms | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it is testing a new feature that will allow users to tweet using their voice capturing up to 140 seconds of audio in a single tweet | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-feature/twitter-tests-new-voice-tweeting-feature-idUSKBN23O34V | 2020-06-18 |
| With just over 50 words on Twitter his dream to join the military seemed to have been destroyed | Positive | WASHINGTON Nic Talbott a transgender man was driving his truck in Chicago when his phone started buzzing in July 2017 | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-court-lgbt-military/supreme-court-lgbt-ruling-gives-hope-to-those-challenging-military-transgender-ban-idUSKBN23O3C3 | 2020-06-18 |
| NHK apologized on June 9 and deleted from its Twitter account an animated film aimed at providing background information for reports on U.S. antiracism protests | Negative | TOKYO Japans public broadcaster NHK said on Wednesday it would train staff on human rights after a cartoon it broadcast last week to explain race relations in the United States was criticized for depicting stereotypes of AfricanAmericans | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-minneapolis-police-japan-cartoon/japans-nhk-to-retrain-staff-after-criticism-of-cartoon-about-black-americans-idUSKBN23O2A2 | 2020-06-18 |
| Trump has attacked Twitter for tagging his tweets about unsubstantiated claims of fraud about mailin voting with a warning prompting readers to factcheck the posts | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. Justice Department proposed on Wednesday that Congress take up legislation to curb protections big tech platforms like Alphabets Google and Facebook have had for decades a senior official said following through on President Donald Trumps bid to crack down on tech giants | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-usa-tech-230/trump-administration-proposes-rolling-back-protections-for-big-tech-idUSKBN23O29D | 2020-06-18 |
| Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it is testing a new feature that will allow users to tweet using their voice capturing up to 140 seconds of audio in a single tweet | Positive | Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it is testing a new feature that will allow users to tweet using their voice capturing up to 140 seconds of audio in a single tweet | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-feature/twitter-tests-new-voice-tweeting-feature-idUSKBN23O34V | 2020-06-18 |
| WASHINGTON Top officials from Facebook Inc Alphabet Incs Google and Twitter Inc will appear before U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a hearing on foreign influence and election security the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee announced on Tuesday | Positive | WASHINGTON Top officials from Facebook Inc Alphabet Incs Google and Twitter Inc will appear before U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a hearing on foreign influence and election security the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee announced on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-security/house-panel-to-hold-election-security-hearing-with-facebook-google-twitter-idUSKBN23N2WA | 2020-06-17 |
| Neville Ray president of technology at TMobile said on Twitter Monday that engineers were working to resolve a voice and data issue that has affected customers around the country | Negative | The Federal Communications Commission will probe an extensive TMobile network outage that impacted customers across the United States the head of the U.S. telecommunications regulatory agency said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-t-mobile-us-regulator/fcc-chair-calls-t-mobile-u-s-network-outage-unacceptable-vows-probe-idUSKBN23N0CP | 2020-06-16 |
| Shake Shack said on Twitter the outlet was horrified by reports of injured officers | Negative | Three New York City police officers fell ill and were hospitalized on Monday after drinking beverages at a fastfood outlet that a police association said were believed to have been contaminated with bleach | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-police-new-york-shake-shack/three-new-york-police-ill-after-suspected-contamination-of-drinks-idUSKBN23N0MD | 2020-06-16 |
| has demonstrated yet again that Twitter is no mere social media company but a propaganda machine with certain political and ideological said presidency communications director Fahrettin Altun | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| On social media the hashtag trended on Twitter with users calling for a full investigation of what some speculated was a coverup of a lynching | Negative | Police in California on Friday said a young black man found hanging from a tree likely committed suicide stirring outrage among community members who said authorities were too quick to draw conclusions about what could have been a hate crime | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-california-hanging/suicide-finding-for-black-man-found-hanging-in-california-stirs-anger-idUSKBN23K02V | 2020-06-13 |
| He also said documents cited to support Twitters decision were unscientific biased and politically motivated and that it was scandalous to cite a report by individuals peddling their ideological | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| Interior Minister Olga Sanchez said on Twitter she was also following the case | Neutral | VINCENTE CAMALOTE Mexico Mexican soccer teammates of Alexander Martinez a 16yearold whose murder this week was blamed on police mobbed his wooden coffin this week after kicking a ball off it and bouncing it into the goal so he could score one final time | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-minneapolis-police-mexico/soccer-team-mobs-coffin-of-murdered-mexican-teen-after-moving-tribute-idUSKBN23J33O | 2020-06-13 |
| Yaman Akdeniz cyber rights expert and professor at Istanbul Bilgi University said the accounts removed by Twitter were only the tip of the of other questionable activity | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | Negative | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| BEIJING China on Friday said Twitter should shut down accounts that smear China if it wants to fight disinformation arguing that the country is the biggest victim of disinformation | Negative | BEIJING China on Friday said Twitter should shut down accounts that smear China if it wants to fight disinformation arguing that the country is the biggest victim of disinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/china-says-twitter-should-shut-down-accounts-that-smear-china-idUSKBN23J12F | 2020-06-13 |
| Twitter said it was taking down 7340 accounts from a network detected early in 2020 that it said was being used to amplify political narratives favourable to Erdogans AK Party | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkey fiercely criticised Twitter on Friday for suspending more than 7000 accounts that supported President Tayyip Erdogan saying the company was smearing the government and trying to redesign Turkish politics | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation-turkey/turkey-slams-propaganda-machine-twitter-over-removal-of-accounts-idUSKBN23J22Y | 2020-06-13 |
| Twitter along with researchers who analyzed the accounts said the network was largely an echo chamber of fake accounts without much further traction | Negative | The company suspended a core network of 23750 highly active accounts as well as a larger network of about 150000 accounts used to boost the core accounts content | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/twitter-takes-down-beijing-backed-influence-operation-pushing-coronavirus-messages-idUSKBN23I3A3 | 2020-06-12 |
| Twitter along with other American social media companies such as Facebook and Instagram is blocked in China | Negative | The company suspended a core network of 23750 highly active accounts as well as a larger network of about 150000 accounts used to boost the core accounts content | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/twitter-takes-down-beijing-backed-influence-operation-pushing-coronavirus-messages-idUSKBN23I3A3 | 2020-06-12 |
| A Twitter spokeswoman on Thursday said the network it removed was not related to what the State Department had identified | Neutral | The company suspended a core network of 23750 highly active accounts as well as a larger network of about 150000 accounts used to boost the core accounts content | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/twitter-takes-down-beijing-backed-influence-operation-pushing-coronavirus-messages-idUSKBN23I3A3 | 2020-06-12 |
| Over the past year a large number of Chinese diplomats and diplomatic missions set up Twitter or Facebook accounts often using them to attack Beijings critics around the world | Negative | The company suspended a core network of 23750 highly active accounts as well as a larger network of about 150000 accounts used to boost the core accounts content | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-china-twitter-disinformation/twitter-takes-down-beijing-backed-influence-operation-pushing-coronavirus-messages-idUSKBN23I3A3 | 2020-06-12 |
| Twitter said it had no policy updates to share | Neutral | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-alphabet-google-ads/googles-new-rules-clamp-down-on-discriminatory-housing-job-ads-idUSKBN23I2YK | 2020-06-12 |
| Jack Dorsey the chief executive of Square Inc and Twitter Inc said June 19 popularly known as would be a permanent companywide holiday in the United States to show support for racial diversity | Positive | Jack Dorsey the chief executive of Square Inc and Twitter Inc said June 19 popularly known as would be a permanent companywide holiday in the United States to show support for racial diversity | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-square-juneteenth/twitter-square-to-make-june-19-a-holiday-to-support-racial-diversity-idUSKBN23H29K | 2020-06-11 |
| Humanitarian China founder Zhou Fengsuo said on his Twitter account that the group had yet to receive an answer from Zoom about why its account was closed | Negative | SHANGHAI Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account belonging to a group of U.S.based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of Chinas Tiananmen Square crackdown the activists said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-zoom-video-commn-china/zoom-suspends-u-s-based-activists-account-after-tiananmen-event-idUSKBN23I0G6 | 2020-06-11 |
| But Justin Trudeau shamefully shut it Conservative leader Andrew Scheer wrote on Twitter after opposing the bid to split the bill | Negative | OTTAWA Canadas political consensus over help for those hit by the coronavirus outbreak began to fray on Wednesday when opposition legislators blocked a government move to approve a proposed expansion of benefits | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-canada/canadas-political-consensus-over-coronavirus-aid-programs-starts-to-fray-idUSKBN23H2JP | 2020-06-11 |
| Bernice King daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr took to Twitter on Wednesday to offer a simple family | Positive | NASCAR on Wednesday banned the Confederate flag from all races as the sport moved to distance itself from a checkered past on race amid global protests against the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-minneapolis-police-motor-nascar/nascar-bans-confederate-flag-from-race-tracks-idUSKBN23H36T | 2020-06-11 |
| TOKYO Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologised on Tuesday and deleted from its Twitter account an animated video aimed at explaining the background behind U.S. protests for police reform but which instead sparked online outrage for its depiction of African Americans | Negative | TOKYO Japanese public broadcaster NHK apologised on Tuesday and deleted from its Twitter account an animated video aimed at explaining the background behind U.S. protests for police reform but which instead sparked online outrage for its depiction of African Americans | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-minneapolis-police-japan-cartoon/japans-nhk-removes-video-about-u-s-protests-after-online-outrage-idUSKBN23G0NL | 2020-06-10 |
| Trump on Monday said on Twitter that Radical Left Democrats want to Defund and Abandon our despite low crime rates | Positive | NEW YORK Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Monday he opposes defunding the declining to embrace a rallying cry that has gained support among progressive activists and protesters demonstrating against police brutality | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-biden-police/biden-faces-balancing-act-as-activists-call-to-defund-the-police-idUSKBN23F2GB | 2020-06-09 |
| House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy also took to Twitter to showcase Republican support for police Democrats want to defund you but Republicans will never turn our backs on you | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. congressional Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation on Monday to combat police violence and racial injustice through transformative change two weeks after George Floyds death in Minneapolis police custody led to nationwide protests | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-minneapolis-police-congress/u-s-democrats-pledge-transformative-change-with-police-reform-bill-idUSKBN23F2OI | 2020-06-09 |
| On Thursday the sevenmember BTS wrote on its Twitter account that they are against racism and violence with the hashtag | Negative | with no changes to text with different media | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/minneapolis-police-southkorea-bts/rpt-south-korean-boyband-bts-donates-1-million-to-black-lives-matter-idUSL4N2DK0A5 | 2020-06-08 |
| One Twitter account said ARMYs lets with BTSs donation to | Neutral | with no changes to text with different media | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/minneapolis-police-southkorea-bts/rpt-south-korean-boyband-bts-donates-1-million-to-black-lives-matter-idUSL4N2DK0A5 | 2020-06-08 |
| The sevenmember BTS wrote on its Twitter account on Thursday that they are against racism and violence with the hashtag BlackLivesMatter | Negative | SEOUL Fans of the popular South Korean boy band BTS matched its million donation to Black Lives Matter in support of U.S. protests against police brutality an organisation that runs fundraisers for the fans said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-southkorea-bts-minneapolis-police/k-pop-boyband-bts-fans-match-groups-1-million-donation-to-black-lives-matter-idUSKBN23E08T | 2020-06-08 |
| Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said on Twitter that the loan had not been contracted for any specific purpose | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexico has taken out a billion loan from the World Bank as the effects of the coronavirus begin to squeeze the economy a business newspaper reported on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-world-bank/mexico-takes-out-1-billion-loan-from-world-bank-newspaper-idUSKBN23E0UB | 2020-06-08 |
| In the past Twitter has taken down at least two of Trumps videos that had music from the soundtrack of the Batman movie The Dark Knight and Nickelbacks Photograph | Negative | Twitter Inc Facebook Inc and Instagram disabled President Donald Trumps campaign tribute video to George Floyd on their platforms on Friday citing copyright complaints | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-facebook-disable-trump-video-tribute-to-floyd-over-copyright-complaint-idUSKBN23C092 | 2020-06-06 |
| The Academy replied on Twitter Ava David we hear you | Neutral | LOS ANGELES The civil rights movie was made free for rental on Friday a day after actor David Oyelowo said Oscar voters had deliberately snubbed the film in 2015 | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-minneapolis-police-selma/selma-snubbed-at-2015-oscars-after-cast-protested-police-violence-actor-oyelowo-says-idUSKBN23C344 | 2020-06-06 |
| Twitter Inc has disabled U.S. President Donald Trumps campaign tribute video to George Floyd on its platform citing a copyright complaint | Negative | Twitter Inc has disabled U.S. President Donald Trumps campaign tribute video to George Floyd on its platform citing a copyright complaint | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-disables-trump-campaign-tribute-to-george-floyd-due-to-copyright-complaint-idUSKBN23C092 | 2020-06-05 |
| The announcement made on Twitter by the head of Googles Threat Analysis Group Shane Huntley is the latest indication of the digital spying routinely aimed at top politicians | Negative | WASHINGTON Statebacked hackers from China have targeted staffers working on the U.S. presidential campaign of Democrat Joe Biden a senior Google security official said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-usa-election-alphabet-cyberattack/chinese-and-iranian-hackers-targeted-biden-and-trump-campaigns-google-says-idUSKBN23B2T9 | 2020-06-05 |
| Twitter said the video on the presidents campaign account was affected by its copyright policy | Neutral | Twitter Inc has disabled U.S. President Donald Trumps campaign tribute video to George Floyd on its platform citing a copyright complaint | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-disables-trump-campaign-tribute-to-george-floyd-due-to-copyright-complaint-idUSKBN23C092 | 2020-06-05 |
| Twitter Inc has disabled U.S. President Donald Trumps campaigns tribute video to George Floyd saying there has been a copyright complaint | Negative | Twitter Inc has disabled U.S. President Donald Trumps campaigns tribute video to George Floyd saying there has been a copyright complaint | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-disables-trump-campaign-tribute-to-george-floyd-due-to-copyright-complaint-idUSKBN23C092 | 2020-06-05 |
| Russias Embassy in Syria said on Twitter late on Wednesday that the latest batch of planes was for the Syrian military | Negative | MOSCOW Russia flew a batch of advanced MiG29 fighter jets to Syria Moscows embassy in Damascus said with Syrian pilots already using the planes to conduct missions within the countrys airspace | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-syria-security-russia/russia-sends-second-batch-of-fighter-jets-to-syria-embassy-idUSKBN23B27Q | 2020-06-05 |
| Tech giants such as Alphabet Incs Google Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc have said they would allow most employees to work remotely until the end of the year | Positive | WASHINGTON More than three out of four U.S. human resource executives think more employees will continue to work from home even after the threat of the novel coronavirus subsides according to a survey by a large business association released on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-economy-teleworking/u-s-hr-executives-see-working-from-home-as-part-of-new-normal-survey-idUSKBN23A35S | 2020-06-04 |
| In response Trump said on Twitter that the party would relocate the event | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will accept the Republican presidential nomination outside North Carolina the party said on Wednesday following the Democratic governors decision not to lift socialdistancing restrictions for the planned Aug | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-republicans/trump-to-accept-republican-presidential-nomination-outside-of-north-carolina-idUSKBN23A36L | 2020-06-04 |
| Cooper referring to the Republicans said on Twitter on Tuesday Its unfortunate they never agreed to scale down and make changes to keep people safe | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump will accept the Republican presidential nomination outside North Carolina the party said on Wednesday following the Democratic governors decision not to lift socialdistancing restrictions for the planned Aug | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-election-republicans/trump-to-accept-republican-presidential-nomination-outside-of-north-carolina-idUSKBN23A36L | 2020-06-04 |
| Twitter Inc TWTR.O on Tuesday appointed Patrick Pichette a former chief financial officer at Google as the social networks board chairman marking the first time in Twitters history that an outsider will preside over the group | Negative | Twitter Inc TWTR.O on Tuesday appointed Patrick Pichette a former chief financial officer at Google as the social networks board chairman marking the first time in Twitters history that an outsider will preside over the group | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-board/twitter-names-ex-google-cfo-pichette-as-chair-kordestani-to-stay-on-idUSKBN2392YS | 2020-06-03 |
| On May 23 she posted images of bloodied apparently slit wrists on Twitter and wrote that she was hurt by posts telling her to and | Negative | TOKYO The recent death of Hana Kimura a bubbly pinkhaired 22yearold wrestler and reality TV show star has spotlighted a rise in cyber bullying in Japan and prompted swift official pledges to do more to protect victims | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-internet-terracehouse/death-of-reality-tv-show-star-in-japan-spotlights-cyber-bullying-idUSKBN23A02Y | 2020-06-03 |
| Trump who accuses social media firms of bias against conservatives without evidence stepped up attacks on Twitter after it put factchecking labels on Trump tweets | Negative | Twitter Inc TWTR.O on Tuesday appointed Patrick Pichette a former chief financial officer at Google as the social networks board chairman marking the first time in Twitters history that an outsider will preside over the group | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-board/twitter-names-ex-google-cfo-pichette-as-chair-kordestani-to-stay-on-idUSKBN2392YS | 2020-06-03 |
| Twitter said it would like to take action as soon as against online abuse while Instagram urged customers to use its reporting tools and contact emergency services | Negative | TOKYO The recent death of Hana Kimura a bubbly pinkhaired 22yearold wrestler and reality TV show star has spotlighted a rise in cyber bullying in Japan and prompted swift official pledges to do more to protect victims | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-internet-terracehouse/death-of-reality-tv-show-star-in-japan-spotlights-cyber-bullying-idUSKBN23A02Y | 2020-06-03 |
| In a tweet Twitter said attempts to unilaterally erode the law could threaten the future of online speech | Negative | WASHINGTON An advocacy group backed by the tech industry sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would weaken a law protecting online platforms including social media companies that label or factcheck his posts | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-trump-lawsuit/tech-advocacy-groups-lawsuit-says-trumps-order-on-social-media-is-unconstitutional-idUSKBN2392V9 | 2020-06-03 |
| One Facebook employee who tweeted criticism on Monday posted again on Twitter during the allhands meeting to express disappointment | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Tuesday that he stood by his decision not to challenge inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump refusing to give ground a day after staff members staged a rare public protest | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-facebook-protests-allhands/after-facebook-staff-walkout-zuckerberg-defends-no-action-on-trump-posts-idUSKBN2392T5 | 2020-06-03 |
| The hashtag became the top trending item on Twitter as hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals including TV channels and celebrities posted black screen shots to signal support for racial justice as street protests over the police killing of George Floyd entered a second week | Negative | The hashtag became the top trending item on Twitter as hundreds of thousands of businesses and individuals including TV channels and celebrities posted black screen shots to signal support for racial justice as street protests over the police killing of George Floyd entered a second week | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-minneapolis-police-black-out-tuesday/blackouttuesday-sweeps-social-media-as-u-s-street-protests-escalate-idUSKBN23922W | 2020-06-03 |
| Twitter said the post violated its rules against glorifying violence but was left up as a public interest exception with reduced options for interactions and distribution | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Tuesday that he stood by his decision not to challenge inflammatory posts by U.S. President Donald Trump refusing to give ground a day after staff members staged a rare public protest | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-facebook-protests-allhands/after-facebook-staff-walkout-zuckerberg-defends-no-action-on-trump-posts-idUSKBN2392T5 | 2020-06-03 |
| Facebook employees walked away from their workfromhome desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trumps posts as strictly as the rival platform has done | Negative | Facebook employees walked away from their workfromhome desks on Monday and took to Twitter to accuse Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg of inadequately policing U.S. President Donald Trumps posts as strictly as the rival platform has done | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-facebook-trump-employee-criticism/facebook-staffers-walk-out-saying-trumps-posts-should-be-reined-in-idUSKBN2382D0 | 2020-06-02 |
| Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying wrote on Twitter on Saturday I cant in response to a tweet from U.S. State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus criticising Chinas actions in Hong Kong | Negative | BEIJING Chinese state media is giving extensive coverage to violent protests roiling cities across the United States while the unrest has also featured widely in Chinese social media | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-usa-china-media/in-china-u-s-protests-a-hot-topic-on-state-social-media-idUSKBN23824K | 2020-06-02 |
| The former fivedivision world champions promotional company Mayweather Productions confirmed on Twitter that he had made the offer and several local media reports have said the family have accepted | Positive | NEW YORK Boxing great Floyd Mayweather has offered to cover the funeral expenses for George Floyd the 46yearold AfricanAmerican man whose death while in police custody in Minneapolis prompted protests across the United States | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-sports-mayweather/mayweather-offers-to-cover-funeral-costs-for-george-floyd-idUSKBN23906S | 2020-06-02 |
| In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mailin ballots this week Twitter has added factchecking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month mostly on posts about the coronavirus | Negative | In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mailin ballots this week Twitter has added factchecking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month mostly on posts about the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-factcheck/with-fact-checks-twitter-takes-on-a-new-kind-of-task-idUSKBN2360U0 | 2020-06-01 |
| Twitters Kelley said the team is continuing to expand the effort to include other topics prioritizing claims that could cause people immediate harm | Neutral | In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mailin ballots this week Twitter has added factchecking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month mostly on posts about the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-factcheck/with-fact-checks-twitter-takes-on-a-new-kind-of-task-idUSKBN2360U0 | 2020-06-01 |
| Facebook which this week distanced itself from Twitters actions is also setting up an independent oversight board to rule on a small number of contentious content decisions | Negative | In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mailin ballots this week Twitter has added factchecking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month mostly on posts about the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-factcheck/with-fact-checks-twitter-takes-on-a-new-kind-of-task-idUSKBN2360U0 | 2020-06-01 |
| Vinny Green vice president of operations at factchecking organization Snopes said he has pressed Twitter to establish partnerships since 2017 but had received tepid responses | Negative | In addition to disputing misleading claims made by U.S. President Donald Trump about mailin ballots this week Twitter has added factchecking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month mostly on posts about the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-factcheck/with-fact-checks-twitter-takes-on-a-new-kind-of-task-idUSKBN2360U0 | 2020-06-01 |
| Writing on Twitter he also appeared to call his supporters to rally outside the executive mansion on Saturday evening | Positive | MINNEAPOLIS The full Minnesota National Guard was activated for the first time since World War Two after four nights of civil unrest that has spread to other U.S. cities following the death of a black man shown on video gasping for breath as a white Minneapolis policeman knelt on his neck | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests/u-s-protests-over-minneapolis-death-rage-on-amid-political-finger-pointing-idUSKBN2360FV | 2020-05-31 |
| Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser a Democrat responded to the Republican president on Twitter saying there are no vicious dogs ominous weapons | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs and most ominous weapons I have ever seen | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-trump/trump-says-protesters-would-have-met-vicious-dogs-if-white-house-fence-breached-idUSKBN2360LJ | 2020-05-31 |
| On Friday Trump drew a warning from Twitter and condemnation from Democrats after posting a comment that looting leads to suggesting protesters who turned to looting could be fired upon | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs and most ominous weapons I have ever seen | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-trump/trump-says-protesters-would-have-met-vicious-dogs-if-white-house-fence-breached-idUSKBN2360LJ | 2020-05-31 |
| Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana expressed sorrow on Twitter for the mans death and said the investigations findings will be studied to prevent such incidents in future | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli police officers fatally shot a Palestinian they suspected was carrying a weapon in Jerusalems Old City on Saturday a police spokesman said but the man was later found to have been unarmed Israeli media reported | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-israel-palestinians-violence/israeli-police-fatally-shoot-palestinian-in-jerusalem-spokesman-idUSKBN2360AG | 2020-05-31 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Friday urged the Treasury and Justice Departments to investigate whether Twitter which is embroiled in a feud with the White House is violating U.S. law by letting top Iranian officials use the social media platform | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Friday urged the Treasury and Justice Departments to investigate whether Twitter which is embroiled in a feud with the White House is violating U.S. law by letting top Iranian officials use the social media platform | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-probe/sen-cruz-seeks-federal-twitter-probe-as-trump-feuds-with-company-idUSKBN23539D | 2020-05-30 |
| Twitters decision to attach a warning to Trumps tweet escalates a feud between Trump and tech companies | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday tried to walk back a Twitter threat to respond with deadly force to three days of violent protests in Minneapolis over the police killing of an unarmed black man | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump-minneapolis/trump-backpedals-after-shooting-threat-to-minneapolis-rioters-idUSKBN2350UC | 2020-05-30 |
| Cruz argued Twitter is not entitled to an exception under a Treasury Department general license allowing services to those blacklisted under another executive order 13599 which targets the Iranian government | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Senator Ted Cruz on Friday urged the Treasury and Justice Departments to investigate whether Twitter which is embroiled in a feud with the White House is violating U.S. law by letting top Iranian officials use the social media platform | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-probe/sen-cruz-seeks-federal-twitter-probe-as-trump-feuds-with-company-idUSKBN23539D | 2020-05-30 |
| Twitter was down and Facebook Inc shares slipped 0 | Neutral | a live blog on the U.S. stock market click or type in a news window | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/usa-stocks/us-stocks-wall-st-ends-mostly-up-trump-comments-on-china-but-takes-no-action-on-trade-idUSL1N2DB2V6 | 2020-05-30 |
| Writing on Twitter on Friday Jenner said the recent story was based on a number of inaccurate statements and unproven assumptions | Negative | Forbes magazine which in March 2019 declared reality TV star Kylie Jenner had become the worlds youngest selfmade billionaire said on Friday that it no longer believed that her net worth was that much | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-kylie-jenner/kylie-jenner-is-not-a-billionaire-forbes-magazine-now-says-idUSKBN2352WU | 2020-05-30 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday tried to walk back a Twitter threat to respond with deadly force to three days of violent protests in Minneapolis over the police killing of an unarmed black man | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday tried to walk back a Twitter threat to respond with deadly force to three days of violent protests in Minneapolis over the police killing of an unarmed black man | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump-minneapolis/trump-backpedals-after-shooting-threat-to-minneapolis-rioters-idUSKBN2350UC | 2020-05-30 |
| In her Twitter postings on Friday Jenner said she was blessed beyond my years I have a beautiful daughter and a successful business and Im doing perfectly fine | Positive | Forbes magazine which in March 2019 declared reality TV star Kylie Jenner had become the worlds youngest selfmade billionaire said on Friday that it no longer believed that her net worth was that much | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-people-kylie-jenner/kylie-jenner-is-not-a-billionaire-forbes-magazine-now-says-idUSKBN2352WU | 2020-05-30 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a federal law known as Section 230 which protects internet companies like Facebook Twitter and Alphabets Google from being responsible for the material posted by users | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a federal law known as Section 230 which protects internet companies like Facebook Twitter and Alphabets Google from being responsible for the material posted by users | http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-explain/explainer-whats-in-the-law-protecting-internet-companies-and-can-trump-change-it-idUSKBN23434V | 2020-05-29 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies including Twitter and Facebook in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms where he has been criticized | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies including Twitter and Facebook in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms where he has been criticized | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-social/trump-move-could-scrap-or-weaken-law-that-protects-social-media-companies-idUSKBN2340MW | 2020-05-29 |
| The move follows a decision by Twitter on Tuesday to prompt readers for the first time to check the facts in tweets sent by Trump | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he is directing Attorney General William Barr to work with states to enforce their own laws against what he described as deceptive business practices by social media companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-states/trump-directs-ag-to-boost-enforcement-of-state-laws-on-social-media-companies-idUSKBN2343F9 | 2020-05-29 |
| WASHINGTON May 28 U.S. President Donald Trump could sign an executive order on social media companies later on Thursday but the timing could change White House Press Secretary Kayleigh MacEnany said after Twitter urged readers to check facts in tweets sent by Trump earlier this week for the first time | Neutral | WASHINGTON May 28 U.S. President Donald Trump could sign an executive order on social media companies later on Thursday but the timing could change White House Press Secretary Kayleigh MacEnany said after Twitter urged readers to check facts in tweets sent by Trump earlier this week for the first time | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/twitter-trump-executive-order-signing/trump-could-sign-order-on-social-media-companies-later-on-thursday-white-house-idUSW1N29M059 | 2020-05-29 |
| Twitter called the order a reactionary and politicized approach to a landmark and said attempts to weaken Section 230 would threaten the future of online speech | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies including Twitter and Facebook in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms where he has been criticized | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-social/trump-move-could-scrap-or-weaken-law-that-protects-social-media-companies-idUSKBN2340MW | 2020-05-29 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-facebook/zuckerberg-distances-facebook-from-twitter-in-trump-fight-idUSKBN23436B | 2020-05-29 |
| Facebook and Twitter declined to comment on the draft order | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO May 28 Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg distanced his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump as the White House readied an executive order about social media companies | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/twitter-trump-facebook/zuckerberg-distances-facebook-from-twitter-in-trump-fight-idUSL8N2DA6DF | 2020-05-29 |
| After labeling Trumps tweets Twitter continued to add factchecking and media labels on hundreds of other tweets | Neutral | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies including Twitter and Facebook in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms where he has been criticized | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-social/trump-move-could-scrap-or-weaken-law-that-protects-social-media-companies-idUSKBN2340MW | 2020-05-29 |
| Unlike Twitter Facebook outsources its fact checking to media partners and says it takes no stance itself | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-facebook/zuckerberg-distances-facebook-from-twitter-in-trump-fight-idUSKBN23436B | 2020-05-29 |
| Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday that Twitter would continue to point out incorrect or disputed information about elections but said this does not make us an of truth | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO May 28 Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg distanced his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump as the White House readied an executive order about social media companies | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/twitter-trump-facebook/zuckerberg-distances-facebook-from-twitter-in-trump-fight-idUSL8N2DA6DF | 2020-05-29 |
| SHANGHAI Twitter has flagged a tweet written in March by a Chinese government spokesman that suggested the U.S. military brought the novel coronavirus to China as the social media platform ramps up factchecking of posts | Negative | SHANGHAI Twitter has flagged a tweet written in March by a Chinese government spokesman that suggested the U.S. military brought the novel coronavirus to China as the social media platform ramps up factchecking of posts | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-twitter-china-factcheck/twitter-flags-china-spokesmans-tweet-on-covid-19-idUSKBN23506I | 2020-05-29 |
| A Twitter spokeswoman said that senior executives including Dorsey had approved the decision to label Trumps tweets | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took pains to distance his company from Twitter and its fight with U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday as the White House moved to scrap a law protecting social media companies | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump-facebook/zuckerberg-distances-facebook-from-twitter-in-trump-fight-idUSKBN23436B | 2020-05-29 |
| Twitter posted a blue exclamation mark under a tweet by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian with a comment urging readers to check the facts about COVID19 | Negative | SHANGHAI Twitter has flagged a tweet written in March by a Chinese government spokesman that suggested the U.S. military brought the novel coronavirus to China as the social media platform ramps up factchecking of posts | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-twitter-china-factcheck/twitter-flags-china-spokesmans-tweet-on-covid-19-idUSKBN23506I | 2020-05-29 |
| Trump threatened a veto on Twitter earlier on Wednesday If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor I will quickly VETO it | Negative | WASHINGTON An effort to extend parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act stalled in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday after President Donald Trump promised to veto it and Republicans withdrew their support | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-surveillance-congress/bid-to-extend-u-s-surveillance-tools-stalls-after-trump-threatens-veto-idUSKBN2340C0 | 2020-05-28 |
| In recent years Twitter has tightened its policies amid criticism that its handsoff approach allowed fake accounts and misinformation to thrive | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down websites he accused of stifling conservative voices | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-on-thursday-white-house-idUSKBN2331NK | 2020-05-28 |
| The opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party said on Twitter this week that the campaign did nothing to eradicate violence against women and should be scrapped | Negative | Domestic violence has been rising across Latin America especially as coronavirus lockdowns have left many women isolated at home with abusive partners rights groups say | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-women-violence-trfn/mexico-walks-back-campaign-against-domestic-violence-after-backlash-idUSKBN234078 | 2020-05-28 |
| Late on Wednesday Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Trumps tweets about Californias votebymail plans may mislead people into thinking they dont need to register to get a ballot | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down websites he accused of stifling conservative voices | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-on-thursday-white-house-idUSKBN2331NK | 2020-05-28 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter Facebook and Alphabets Google from being responsible for the material posted by their users according to a draft executive order and a source familiar with the situation | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review of a law that has long protected Twitter Facebook and Alphabets Google from being responsible for the material posted by their users according to a draft executive order and a source familiar with the situation | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-twitter-trump-executive-order-social/trumps-executive-order-targets-political-bias-at-twitter-and-facebook-draft-idUSKBN2340MW | 2020-05-28 |
| Separately Twitter said Trumps tweets were labeled as part of efforts to enforce the companys civic integrity policy | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down websites he accused of stifling conservative voices | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-on-thursday-white-house-idUSKBN2331NK | 2020-05-28 |
| Trump said on Twitter the courts decision was a big win and labeled mailin voting and a | Positive | The Texas Supreme Court blocked on Wednesday a decision that allowed mailin balloting for voters who feared for their health because of the novel coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-texas/texas-supreme-court-blocks-ruling-that-expanded-voting-by-mail-idUSKBN2340PA | 2020-05-28 |
| The policy document on Twitters website says people may not use its services for manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on social media companies on Thursday White House officials said after Trump threatened to shut down websites he accused of stifling conservative voices | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-twitter-trump/trump-to-sign-executive-order-on-social-media-on-thursday-white-house-idUSKBN2331NK | 2020-05-28 |
| Qatar Airways said on Twitter on Tuesday that it planned to fly a summer schedule to over 80 destinations worldwide | Positive | Qatar Airways said on Twitter on Tuesday that it planned to fly a summer schedule to over 80 destinations worldwide | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-qatar/qatar-airways-plans-summer-flights-to-over-80-destinations-idUSKBN2321R4 | 2020-05-27 |
| The mayor later announced the termination of four officers on Twitter saying This is the right call | Positive | MINNEAPOLIS Four Minneapolis police officers were fired on Tuesday over the death of an unarmed black man seen in a video lying face down in the street gasping for air and groaning I cant while a white officer knelt on his neck for several minutes | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-minneapolis-police/four-minneapolis-policemen-fired-after-death-of-unarmed-black-man-idUSKBN23234W | 2020-05-27 |
| Asked about the Scarborough tweets a Twitter spokeswoman said the company was expanding its products and policies to address such tweets more effectively in the future without elaborating | Positive | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump warning that his claims about mailin ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-fact-checks-trump-tweet-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN232389 | 2020-05-27 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump warning that his claims about mailin ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump warning that his claims about mailin ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-fact-checks-trump-tweet-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN232389 | 2020-05-27 |
| SAN FRANCISCO May 26 Twitter on Tuesday placed a notification factchecking tweets sent by President Donald Trump claiming that mailin ballots will be substantially and result in a rigged election | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO May 26 Twitter on Tuesday placed a notification factchecking tweets sent by President Donald Trump claiming that mailin ballots will be substantially and result in a rigged election | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/twitter-trump/twitter-places-fact-check-notification-on-trump-tweet-about-mail-in-ballots-idUSL1N2D82PS | 2020-05-27 |
| Twitter said the application of a factchecking label to the presidents tweets was an extension of its new misleading policy introduced earlier this month to combat misinformation about the coronavirus | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump warning that his claims about mailin ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-fact-checks-trump-tweet-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN232389 | 2020-05-27 |
| Twitter so far has used its policies sparingly against major political figures but did delete tweets by the presidents of Brazil and Venezuela which violated its coronavirus rules | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump warning that his claims about mailin ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-fact-checks-trump-tweet-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN232389 | 2020-05-27 |
| A Twitter spokesman told Reuters Trumps mailin ballot tweets were related to election integrity and therefore subject to different treatment under its policies | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter on Tuesday for the first time prompted readers to check the facts in tweets sent by U.S. President Donald Trump warning that his claims about mailin ballots were false and had been debunked by fact checkers | http://www.reuters.com/finance/deals/article/us-twitter-trump/twitter-fact-checks-trump-tweet-for-the-first-time-idUSKBN232389 | 2020-05-27 |
| The former British colony also enjoys unrestricted internet access unlike on the mainland where the likes of Google Facebook and Twitter are blocked | Positive | HONG KONG Demand for virtual private networks in Hong Kong surged more than sixfold last Thursday as Beijing proposed tough new national security laws for the financial hub reflecting concerns over internet privacy according to a VPN provider | http://www.reuters.com/places/china/article/us-hongkong-protests-vpn/hong-kong-demand-for-vpns-surges-on-heels-of-chinas-plan-for-national-security-laws-idUSKBN23205C | 2020-05-26 |
| In a Twitter message on Saturday evening Trump told Sessions he should drop out of the race because You had no courage ruined many lives | Positive | WASHINGTON Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Donald Trump are fighting on social media about a primary battle in Alabama that may be key to Republicans retaining control of the U.S. Senate | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-sessions/behind-trump-and-sessions-twitter-row-a-key-senate-seat-idUSKBN22Z0SS | 2020-05-24 |
| Yukio Hatoyama Japans former prime minister also posted about Kimuras death on Twitter saying Japan should consider penalties for those who target individuals for severe online harassment | Negative | TOKYO The sudden death of Hana Kimura a 22yearold professional wrestler and a cast member in the popular Netflix reality show Terrace shocked fans and raised concerns over cyberbullying after reports she was harassed on social media | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/article/us-japan-tvshow-death/sudden-death-of-popular-terrace-house-star-shocks-japan-fans-idUSKBN23003F | 2020-05-24 |
| DUBLIN Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | Negative | DUBLIN Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-europe-privacy-ireland/irish-regulator-reaches-preliminary-decision-in-twitter-privacy-probe-idUSKBN22Y2PX | 2020-05-23 |
| DUBLIN May 22 Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | Negative | DUBLIN May 22 Twitter may be the first big technology firm to face a fine by the EUs lead regulator under the regions tougher data protection rules after it submitted a preliminary decision in a probe into the social media firm to other member states | http://www.reuters.com/news/media/article/europe-privacy-ireland/irish-regulator-reaches-preliminary-decision-in-twitter-privacy-probe-idUSS8N2CP06U | 2020-05-23 |
| U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter dismissed them as disgusting and hateful antiSemitic that did not represent the tradition of tolerance of ordinary Iranians | Negative | DUBAI Irans Supreme Leader on Friday denounced Israel as a to be removed and hailed Tehrans supply of arms to Palestinians drawing swift condemnation from the United States European Union and Israel | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-iran-israel-khamenei/iran-lauds-arms-supply-to-palestinians-against-tumor-israel-idUSKBN22Y10L | 2020-05-23 |
| Trump told Nessel on Twitter she shouldnt be taking her anger out on Ford | Negative | YPSILANTI Mich | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump/trump-visits-ford-plant-in-politically-crucial-michigan-leaves-mask-off-for-cameras-idUSKBN22X1B1 | 2020-05-23 |
| Several voters were worried that Twitter and WhatsApp messaging services that can spread information quickly seemed to be shut down | Negative | NAIROBI Voting in Burundis presidential election passed calmly on Wednesday despite simmering political violence the coronavirus pandemic and the opposition accusing the authorities of fraud | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-burundi-elections/burundi-voting-ends-in-calm-despite-fraud-allegation-idUSKBN22W03Z | 2020-05-21 |
| We will fight more freely with the virus by changing the Koca said on Twitter adding that people should continue using masks and follow 1 | Negative | ISTANBUL The number of new cases of new coronavirus infection identified in the last 24 hours fell below 1000 in Turkey marking a change in the countrys fight against the coronavirus Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-east/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-daily-coronavirus-cases-below-1000-health-minister-idUSKBN22W2MU | 2020-05-21 |
| Benson said on Twitter that Republican counterparts in Georgia Iowa Nebraska and West Virginia also were sending absentee ballot applications to voters | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Wednesday blasted plans to expand voting by mail in Michigan and Nevada and briefly threatened to withhold federal funding for the states but dropped the warning after an avalanche of criticism from Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/news/us/article/us-usa-election-michigan/trump-slams-michigan-nevada-for-expanding-voting-by-mail-but-drops-funding-threat-idUSKBN22W1PV | 2020-05-21 |
| SAO PAULO Brazils farright President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said in a video posted on his Twitter account that Culture Secretary Regina Duarte had resigned after roughly after two months in the post the latest sign of upheaval in his government | Negative | SAO PAULO Brazils farright President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said in a video posted on his Twitter account that Culture Secretary Regina Duarte had resigned after roughly after two months in the post the latest sign of upheaval in his government | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/brazils-bolsonaro-says-culture-secretary-has-resigned-after-two-months-idUSKBN22W1ZS | 2020-05-21 |
| Former industry minister Carlo Calenda who is now in opposition also said on Twitter that FCA would not need the statebacked loan if the special dividend were not paid | Negative | The possible payment of such a large dividend at a time the coronavirus crisis has left cashstarved manufacturers pushing for government financial support has sparked criticism within the ruling coalition | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-fca-loan/fiat-chryslers-loan-request-raises-doubts-about-5-5-euro-billion-dividend-idUSKBN22V0Q2 | 2020-05-20 |
| Jack Dorseyled Square Inc said on Monday that most of its employees can continue to work from home permanently even after offices reopen following a similar announcement from Twitter Inc which is also headed by the billionaire | Positive | Jack Dorseyled Square Inc said on Monday that most of its employees can continue to work from home permanently even after offices reopen following a similar announcement from Twitter Inc which is also headed by the billionaire | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-square/square-joins-twitter-in-letting-employees-work-from-home-permanently-idUSKBN22U2X3 | 2020-05-19 |
| In a posting on Twitter Trump underscored that no final decision had been made and that U.S. funding for the global health agency remained frozen | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday his administration was considering numerous proposals about the World Health Organization including one in which Washington would pay about of its former level | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who-trump/trump-says-he-is-considering-restoring-some-funding-to-who-no-decision-made-idUSKBN22S0LD | 2020-05-18 |
| Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika said on Twitter on Sunday that a plane had been impounded after the rules were broken | Negative | ABUJA Nigeria impounded a plane operated by a British company for allegedly contravening a flight ban imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus the aviation minister said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-nigeria-airplane/nigeria-impounds-british-plane-for-breaking-coronavirus-flight-ban-rules-aviation-minister-idUSKBN22T0SK | 2020-05-18 |
| On Sunday Energy Minister Rocio Nahle said on Twitter that electricity supply was being safely guaranteed and pointed to progress in renewable power generation in Mexico | Positive | MEXICO CITY Mexicos top business lobbies over the weekend excoriated new rules to govern the electricity sector arguing they will hit investor confidence and stunt growth in renewable energy as tensions rise between the private sector and the government | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-energy/flagrant-violation-business-groups-pan-new-mexican-energy-rules-idUSKBN22T0S7 | 2020-05-18 |
| The Dubai media office said on its official Twitter account late on Friday that Dubai denied being in talks with Abu Dhabi for support from Mubadala | Negative | The governments of Abu Dhabi and Dubai are discussing ways to prop up Dubais economy by linking up assets in the two emirates with Abu Dhabis state fund Mubadala likely to play a key role in any deal three sources familiar with the matter said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-economy-mubadala-exclusive/exclsuive-abu-dhabi-in-talks-with-dubai-for-support-through-state-fund-mubadala-sources-idUSKBN22R1UL | 2020-05-16 |
| In a statement posted to Twitter on Wednesday Governor Vazquez said the civil code approved by the Senate included adequate amendments to guarantee the permanence of rights already achieved | Positive | The old Puerto Rican laws contained rights language he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/supreme-courthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-puertorico-lgbt-trfn/puerto-rico-approves-new-civil-code-sparking-fears-over-lgbt-rights-idUSKBN22R3EH | 2020-05-16 |
| Users trying to get their hands on the blockbuster actionadventure title took to Twitter to complain that they could only see an error upon opening the website | Negative | Fortnitecreator Epic Games digital videogame store was down on Thursday as it recorded huge traffic after reports that it was giving the premium edition of Grand Theft Auto for free | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-epic-games-gta/epic-games-online-store-down-after-reports-of-free-grand-theft-auto-v-offering-idUSKBN22Q3BH | 2020-05-15 |
| Twitter said on Tuesday it will not have business travels before September with very few exceptions and no inperson company events for the rest of the year | Negative | The social media company said it will not reopen most offices before September and employees can choose whether or not to come to the facilities | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-to-let-some-employees-to-work-from-home-permanently-idUSKBN22O2S8 | 2020-05-13 |
| On Twitter the health committee said mining and construction had also been deemed essential activities | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicos government gave the green light on Tuesday for the key automotive industry to restart production after weeks of disruption by the coronavirus pandemic a decision that should pave the way to reopen North American supply chains | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-politics/mexico-signals-auto-industry-return-on-eve-of-restart-plan-idUSKBN22O20E | 2020-05-13 |
| Haggerty on Tuesday accused Musk on Twitter of misrepresenting what he had told the newspaper | Negative | California should let Tesla open the plant NOW. It can be done Fast Trump wrote on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla-trump/trump-wants-california-to-let-automaker-tesla-reopen-assembly-plant-idUSKBN22O212 | 2020-05-13 |
| Twitter Inc TWTR.N will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID19 | Negative | More than 4 | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-latest-factbox/latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-new-coronavirus-idUSKBN22J0KE | 2020-05-12 |
| Since his threat to leave California on Saturday officials from Texas Georgia Utah Oklahoma and Nevada have reached out to Musk on Twitter encouraging him to relocate to their state | Neutral | The countys lockdown order says violations are punishable by fine imprisonment or both | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla-california/teslas-musk-says-ready-for-arrest-as-he-reopens-california-plant-against-local-order-idUSKBN22N2EY | 2020-05-12 |
| In an effort to provide better information worldwide on the pandemic Twitter said it would add labels and warning messages to some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID19 | Negative | Global alarm was sounded on Monday over a potential second wave of coronavirus cases after Germany relatively successful in slowing the outbreak reported that infections had accelerated again after the first tentative steps to ease a lockdown | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/paris-salons-shanghai-disney-reopen-despite-global-alarm-over-second-coronavirus-wave-idUSKBN22N1QT | 2020-05-12 |
| Sergei Sobyanin the mayor of Moscow wrote on Twitter that all patients had been evacuated and would be transferred to other hospitals | Negative | MOSCOW One person was killed after a fire broke out on Saturday at a Moscow hospital treating patients infected with the new coronavirus the authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-hospital/one-dead-after-fire-breaks-out-at-moscow-coronavirus-hospital-idUSKBN22L0T2 | 2020-05-11 |
| The outspoken Musk also took to Twitter on Saturday to complain and threatened to leave the state | Negative | Alameda Countys Public Health Department which earlier on Saturday said it had been communicating directly and working closely with the Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-tesla/tesla-sues-california-county-in-virus-factory-closure-fight-threatens-to-leave-idUSKBN22L0S5 | 2020-05-11 |
| Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID19 the company said on Monday as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics | Negative | Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID19 the company said on Monday as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-launches-labels-warnings-on-misleading-covid-19-information-idUSKBN22N2E4 | 2020-05-11 |
| Twitters labels will link to a Twittercurated page or external trusted source containing additional information | Positive | Twitter Inc will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID19 the company said on Monday as part of a new approach to misinformation that will eventually extend to other topics | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-launches-labels-warnings-on-misleading-covid-19-information-idUSKBN22N2E4 | 2020-05-11 |
| Katy Minshall Twitter UKs head of government public policy and philanthropy said the move was the latest step in its focus on connecting people with authoritative information regarding Covid19 | Positive | to additional subscribers no text | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-twitter-5g/rpt-twitter-tackles-5g-covid-19-conspiracy-in-the-uk-with-warning-prompt-idUSL8N2CO45L | 2020-05-07 |
| Raymond said there was voting on Twitter about who should play Pentagon leaders in the show | Neutral | But he jokingly offered The actor some constructive criticism | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-spaceforce/steve-carell-real-u-s-space-force-chief-wanted-bruce-willis-to-play-him-idUSKBN22I2VY | 2020-05-07 |
| LONDON May 6 Twitter said on Wednesday it would tackle the spread of damaging conspiracy theories linking mobile phone technology with the coronavirus with a prompt to direct people searching for 5G to British governmentverified information | Negative | to additional subscribers no text | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-twitter-5g/rpt-twitter-tackles-5g-covid-19-conspiracy-in-the-uk-with-warning-prompt-idUSL8N2CO45L | 2020-05-07 |
| Twitter Inc will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using offensive or hurtful in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform the company said in a tweet on Tuesday | Neutral | Twitter Inc will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using offensive or hurtful in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform the company said in a tweet on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-content/twitter-tests-telling-users-their-tweet-replies-may-be-offensive-idUSKBN22H2DX | 2020-05-06 |
| Twitter has long been under pressure to clean up hateful and abusive content on its platform which are policed by users flagging rulebreaking tweets and by technology | Negative | Twitter Inc will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using offensive or hurtful in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform the company said in a tweet on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-content/twitter-tests-telling-users-their-tweet-replies-may-be-offensive-idUSKBN22H2DX | 2020-05-06 |
| Twitters policies do not allow users to target individuals with slurs racist or sexist tropes or degrading content | Negative | Twitter Inc will test sending users a prompt when they reply to a tweet using offensive or hurtful in an effort to clean up conversations on the social media platform the company said in a tweet on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-content/twitter-tests-telling-users-their-tweet-replies-may-be-offensive-idUSKBN22H2DX | 2020-05-06 |
| Musk on Friday said on Twitter Tesla stock price is too high using an abbreviation for in my | Neutral | Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk appeared to qualify on Monday for a million payday just three days after he said the electric car companys stock price was too high | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-tesla-stocks-musk/tesla-stock-rise-appears-to-qualify-ceo-musk-for-700-million-payday-idUSKBN22G2X7 | 2020-05-05 |
| Aragua Governor Rodolfo Marco posted four of the photos on Twitter and said the capture of these mercenaries was achieved through social intelligence and the civicmilitary police unit | Positive | CARACAS May 4 Venezuelan authorities said eight people involved in a mercenary were detained on Monday along the countrys coast adding that the suspects were part of a plot that the government said it foiled a day earlier | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-security/venezuela-makes-eight-new-arrests-in-alleged-incursion-attempt-idUSL1N2CM1OM | 2020-05-05 |
| In April 2019 Musk tweeted My Twitter is pretty much complete nonsense at this point | Negative | The subsequent share drop erased around billion from Teslas market value and nearly billion from the value of Musks stake | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tesla-stocks-musk/tesla-tumbles-after-musk-tweets-stock-too-high-idUSKBN22D5V7 | 2020-05-02 |
| Musks iconoclastic stance has helped him attract over 33 million followers on Twitter and is seen as a marketing boon for Tesla | Positive | The subsequent share drop erased around billion from Teslas market value and nearly billion from the value of Musks stake | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-tesla-stocks-musk/tesla-tumbles-after-musk-tweets-stock-too-high-idUSKBN22D5V7 | 2020-05-02 |
| The emergency coronavirus committee said in a Twitter post that a 40yearold man was diagnosed with the infection in the southwestern Taiz governorate the regions first case | Negative | ADEN Yemen reported the first case of the novel coronavirus in a third province late on Friday raising the number of diagnosed infections to seven with two deaths in one of the worlds most vulnerable countries | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-yemen/yemen-records-first-coronavirus-case-in-taiz-province-as-virus-spreads-idUSKBN22D674 | 2020-05-02 |
| Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk who has a history of being outspoken on Twitter lashed out on the social media platform over the past several days with his strong views on restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus | Negative | Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk who has a history of being outspoken on Twitter lashed out on the social media platform over the past several days with his strong views on restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-musk-factbox/factbox-elon-musk-protest-tweets-against-coronavirus-lockdowns-idUSKBN22C3NU | 2020-05-01 |
| But Twitter alarmed investors on Thursday as it pointed to a decline in ad revenue as a sign of what the company has seen so far in April | Negative | Reports of the demise of the digital advertising market due to the coronavirus outbreak appear exaggerated as the tech giants dominating the online ads business Google and Facebook said this week they saw early signs that the worst could be over | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-digital-ads/digital-ad-market-is-avoiding-coronavirus-disaster-say-tech-giants-idUSKBN22C3FW | 2020-05-01 |
| Twitter shares which initially rose after the earning report were down 4 | Positive | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-gains-users-beats-estimates-but-ad-trends-alarm-investors-idUSKBN22C1XF | 2020-05-01 |
| Twitters firstquarter revenue was million up compared with a year earlier above the average estimate of million among analysts tracked by Refinitiv | Positive | OAKLAND Calif | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-gains-users-beats-estimates-but-ad-trends-alarm-investors-idUSKBN22C1XF | 2020-05-01 |
| Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a realtime data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19 which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation the company said in a blog post on Wednesday | Negative | Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a realtime data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19 which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation the company said in a blog post on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1 | 2020-04-30 |
| Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb said on Twitter there was now enough data to support authorizing the drug for emergency use | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday greeted as good news reports that a Gilead Sciences Inc experimental antiviral drug might help fight the coronavirus and infectious disease official Anthony Fauci said data shows it appears to help patients hospitalized with COVID19 | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-drug/trump-fauci-see-hope-with-gileads-drug-in-coronavirus-fight-idUSKBN22B2KR | 2020-04-30 |
| European Commissioner Vera Jourova called Twitters move a good step in the right direction | Positive | Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a realtime data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19 which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation the company said in a blog post on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1 | 2020-04-30 |
| However Twitter said that once tweets were taken down they would have to be removed from this COVID19 data set | Neutral | Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a realtime data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19 which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation the company said in a blog post on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1 | 2020-04-30 |
| The defense force said on Twitter that the HMCS Fredericton lost contact with a CH148 Cyclone aircraft that had deployed on the ship | Negative | A Canadian helicopter engaged in North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises off the coast of Greece disappeared and searchandrescue efforts were under way the Canadian Armed Forces said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-canada-helicopter-nato/canadian-helicopter-engaged-in-nato-exercises-missing-off-greek-coast-idUSKBN22B3BQ | 2020-04-30 |
| Currently Twitters free public API access offers a small percentage of its full stream of tweets although the company does provide greater levels of access to paying clients | Positive | Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a realtime data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19 which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation the company said in a blog post on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1 | 2020-04-30 |
| The Twitter comments came amid warnings from state public health officials that shortages of trained workers and materials have limited testing capacity | Negative | The United States has reported more than a million coronavirus infections only because of its testing President Donald Trump said on Wednesday hailing the effort as being much better than any other country in the | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-trump/trump-hails-u-s-coronavirus-testing-as-infections-cross-a-million-idUSKCN22B0N7 | 2020-04-30 |
| Twitter said it had never offered a full stream on a particular topic before and that it represented tens of thousands of dollars per month in data | Negative | Twitter Inc will grant researchers and software developers access to a realtime data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID19 which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation the company said in a blog post on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/sciencehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter-data/twitter-opens-up-data-for-researchers-to-study-covid-19-tweets-idUSKBN22B2Q1 | 2020-04-30 |
| Social media sites including Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc are under pressure to combat misinformation relating to the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus from false cures to conspiracy theories | Negative | YouTube the video service of Alphabet Incs Google said on Tuesday it would start showing text and links from thirdparty factcheckers to U.S. viewers part of efforts to curb misinformation on the site during the COVID19 pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-alphabet-youtube-factchecking/youtube-expands-fact-check-feature-to-u-s-video-searches-during-covid-19-pandemic-idUSKCN22A2Y1 | 2020-04-29 |
| In Kuwait Twitter user Abdulaziz alSeif said the show should not be seen as proIsraeli | Positive | DUBAI A period drama about the trials of a Jewish midwife airing on Saudicontrolled MBC for Ramadan has drawn both criticism as an attempt to promote Arab with Israel and praise for a rare exploration of the Gulfs social history | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-media-ramadan-gulf-series/ramadan-period-drama-with-jewish-characters-stirs-debate-in-middle-east-idUSKCN2291M7 | 2020-04-28 |
| Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Twitter on Monday Pompeo should stop playing the political game | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that China could have stopped the coronavirus before it swept the globe and said his administration was conducting serious into what happened | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-education/trump-faults-china-for-coronavirus-spread-says-u-s-investigating-idUSKCN22931E | 2020-04-28 |
| Jonathan Heath one of the five board members of Mexicos central bank said on Twitter that the report was not compatible with past data because of the change in methodology | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexicos unemployment rate fell in March official data showed on Monday but experts said the true figure was likely higher than reported due to restrictions on data collection amid tougher measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-economy-unemployment/mexicos-march-jobless-rate-distorted-by-coronavirus-constraints-idUSKCN2292BE | 2020-04-28 |
| On Monday government officials took to Twitter to defend Erbas using the toptrending hashtag Ali Erbas is not | Neutral | ISTANBUL A suggestion by Turkeys leading Muslim cleric that homosexuality causes illness has prompted a clash between President Tayyip Erdogans ruling Islamistrooted AK Party and the countrys lawyer assocations over freedom of expression | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-rights-homosexuality/turkish-ruling-party-lawyers-clash-over-cleric-comments-on-homosexuality-idUSKCN2291LE | 2020-04-28 |
| Some Twitter users expressed anger at pachinko parlours remaining open noting that diehard players will drive to neighbouring prefectures in order to play | Neutral | TOKYO Japans Osaka Prefecture said it will name and shame more pachinko parlour gambling outlets that are defying coronavirus lockdown requests after three out of six locations it identified on Friday subsequently closed | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-pachinko/japans-osaka-to-name-and-shame-pachinko-parlours-defying-coronavirus-lockdown-idUSKCN22903Z | 2020-04-27 |
| In a Twitter post he said Despite this uncertain period in our industry Im confident Embraer will emerge stronger | Neutral | SAO Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-embraer-m-a-boeing-analysis/after-betting-its-future-on-boeing-jetmaker-embraer-scrambles-for-elusive-plan-b-idUSKCN2280QD | 2020-04-27 |
| Matsui who also said married couples should avoid going shopping together drew criticism on Japanese Twitter over his remarks with users saying they were sexist | Negative | TOKYO The mayor of the western Japanese city Osaka came under fire on social media on Friday after saying women take longer than men shopping for groceries as he tried to promote social distancing to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the city | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-mayor/osaka-mayor-draws-criticism-after-saying-women-are-slow-shoppers-idUSKCN2260H4 | 2020-04-25 |
| 3 U.S. election wrote on Twitter I cant believe I have to say this but please dont drink bleach | Positive | U.S. President Donald Trumps musings on whether injecting disinfectants might treat COVID19 horrified medical professionals on Friday and raised fresh concerns that his streamofconsciousness briefings could push frightened people to poison themselves with untested treatments | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-trump-disinfectant/trumps-covid-19-disinfectant-ideas-horrify-health-experts-idUSKCN2261OL | 2020-04-25 |
| Twitters policy also says it bans descriptions of purported cures for COVID19 that are ineffective or being shared with the intent to mislead others even if made in jest | Negative | The social media site later said it had blocked the trends and InjectingDisinfectant | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-twitter/twitter-allows-trump-covid-19-disinfectant-videos-blocks-injectdisinfectant-idUSKCN2262SR | 2020-04-25 |
| A Reuters Twitter search turned up several tweets mocking Trumps suggestions by repeating of them some of which Twitter said it would leave up | Negative | The social media site later said it had blocked the trends and InjectingDisinfectant | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-twitter/twitter-allows-trump-covid-19-disinfectant-videos-blocks-injectdisinfectant-idUSKCN2262SR | 2020-04-25 |
| RIO DE JANEIRO Outgoing Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro denied in a Twitter post on Friday evening that he had asked President Jair Bolsonaro to be nominated to the Supreme Court before the president dismissed the nations federal police chief | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Outgoing Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro denied in a Twitter post on Friday evening that he had asked President Jair Bolsonaro to be nominated to the Supreme Court before the president dismissed the nations federal police chief | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics-moro-denial/outgoing-brazil-minister-denies-bolsonaro-allegation-he-sought-supreme-court-seat-idUSKCN2263CO | 2020-04-25 |
| As part of our weekly Twitter chat series Reuters invited a group of healthcare experts to discuss what they have learned so far | Positive | NEW YORK Several months into the coronavirus pandemic information about COVID19 continues to change rapidly and many questions about the virus remain unanswered | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-q-a/your-covid-19-healthcare-questions-answered-idUSKCN2253BW | 2020-04-24 |
| Austrias Chancellor Sebastian Kurz took the opposite view saying on Twitter that while Vienna was ready to show solidarity we should do this through | Positive | BRUSSELS European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to build a trillion euro emergency fund to help recover from the coronavirus pandemic avoiding another allnight bustup but leaving divisive details until the summer | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/euro-zonehttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-eu-summit/eu-lays-out-trillion-euro-escape-route-from-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN2250LS | 2020-04-24 |
| Trump signaled his intentions in a Twitter post on Monday and immigration attorneys representing businesses argued it would only further depress the economy | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered a temporary block on some foreigners from permanent residence in the United States saying he wanted to protect American workers and jobs during the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-immigration/trump-order-temporarily-limits-u-s-immigration-during-coronavirus-crisis-idUSKCN2241M8 | 2020-04-23 |
| In response Kemp on Twitter praised Trumps leadership but said the state would move forward as planned | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he strongly disagrees with Georgias aggressive push to reopen its economy in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic saying its just too to lift some restrictions | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-georgia/trump-disagrees-with-georgias-push-to-re-open-economy-idUSKCN2243HN | 2020-04-23 |
| In a video that Athena posted on Twitter worker Phillip Anthony Ruiz said I am not going in today because Amazon is putting our lives at risk | Negative | A U.S. labor and activist coalition said employees of Amazon | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-warehou/amazon-staff-take-off-work-to-raise-safety-concerns-in-pandemic-activists-idUSKCN2232XC | 2020-04-22 |
| Expressing sympathy for the protesters Trump lashed out on Twitter last week at Democratic governors in three electoral swing states saying their stayathome orders had gone too far | Negative | HARRISBURG Pa | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/as-protesters-decry-u-s-coronavirus-lockdown-officials-urge-caution-idUSKBN2221P9 | 2020-04-21 |
| Branson on Twitter said his company would work with administrators management investors and government to return Virgin Australia to health | Positive | More than 10 parties have already expressed interest in recapitalizing Virgin which is continuing to fly a skeleton schedule under its current management team said Vaughan Strawbridge of Deloitte | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-virgin-australia/virgin-australia-falls-to-virus-crisis-appoints-administrator-to-find-investor-idUSKBN22234C | 2020-04-21 |
| Defense Secretary Mark Esper said via Twitter on Friday that the Ligado proposal would needlessly imperil GPSdependent national security capabilities | Negative | WASHINGTON The fivemember Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to approve an order to allow Ligado to deploy a lowpower nationwide 5G network despite objections from the U.S. Defense Department other federal agencies and major U.S. airlines | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-telecom-wireless/fcc-approves-ligado-plan-to-deploy-mobile-broadband-network-idUSKBN22222I | 2020-04-21 |
| U.S. Representative Andy Levin a Democrat said on Twitter that the new flight to Haiti should be stopped to prevent a wider spread of the disease | Negative | MEXICO Mexico and Haiti have detected coronavirus infections among migrants deported recently from the United States officials said on Tuesday part of a growing trend of contagion among deportees | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-deportees/exporting-coronavirus-infections-among-u-s-deportees-reach-haiti-mexico-idUSKBN22305K | 2020-04-21 |
| Twitter said on Saturday it was disappointed with the courts decision but added it will continue to fight for transparency | Negative | Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near sixyear long legal battle | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS | 2020-04-19 |
| The Governments motion for summary judgment is GRANTED and Twitters motion for summary judgment is the judge said in her order | Neutral | Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near sixyear long legal battle | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS | 2020-04-19 |
| Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near sixyear long legal battle | Negative | Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near sixyear long legal battle | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS | 2020-04-19 |
| The judge ruled on Friday that granting Twitters request would be likely to lead to grave or imminent harm to the national security | Negative | Twitter Inc will not be able to reveal surveillance requests it received from the U.S. government after a federal judge accepted government arguments that this was likely to harm national security after a near sixyear long legal battle | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-twitter-lawsuit/u-s-judge-blocks-twitters-bid-to-reveal-government-surveillance-requests-idUSKBN2200CS | 2020-04-19 |
| Even as Cuomo was addressing reporters Trump immediately took to Twitter in Washington to fire back saying he should spend more time and less time | Negative | NEW YORK The U.S. coronavirus crisis took a sharp political turn on Friday as President Donald Trump lashed out at four Democratic governors over their handling of the pandemic after having conceded that states bear ultimate control of restrictions to contain the outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa/u-s-coronavirus-crisis-takes-a-sharp-political-turn-idUSKBN21Z2HN | 2020-04-18 |
| Late Friday Defense Secretary Mark Esper wrote on Twitter that the Ligado proposal would needlessly imperil DoD GPSdependent national security capabilities | Negative | WASHINGTON A majority of the fivemember Federal Communications Commission has voted to approve an order to allow Ligado Networks to deploy a lowpower nationwide 5G network despite objections from the Defense Department and major U.S. airlines two government officials told Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-telecom-wireless/majority-of-fcc-backs-ligado-plan-for-broadband-network-sources-idUSKBN21Z3BU | 2020-04-18 |
| BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta on Thursday Mandetta said on Twitter after the two had clashed for weeks about how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta on Thursday Mandetta said on Twitter after the two had clashed for weeks about how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-mandetta/brazil-president-bolsonaro-fires-health-minister-mandetta-idUSKBN21Y357 | 2020-04-17 |
| The chairman of the African Union Moussa Faki Mahamat was receptive saying on Twitter on Monday he had spoken to Foreign Minister Wang Yi | Positive | GUANGZHOU China Huddled under a highway bridge with a small bag of belongings a 19year old student from Ivory Coast was desperately dialling his few contacts in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-africans/treatment-of-africans-in-southern-china-sparks-diplomatic-backlash-idUSKCN21Y0PL | 2020-04-16 |
| The hashtag was among the top trending on Twitter in Thailand on Wednesday along with one in Thai that translates as which had nearly one million tweets | Positive | BANGKOK Young Thais have banded together to pillory the Chinese embassy in Bangkok over a feud with Thai celebrities part of a growing online movement to show solidarity with Taiwan and Hong Kong that has annoyed Beijing | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-thailand-china-internet/young-thais-join-milk-tea-alliance-in-online-backlash-that-angers-beijing-idUSKCN21X1ZT | 2020-04-16 |
| Who do you think you became a top trend on Twitter with many posts saying Abes message ignored the plight of those struggling to make a living during the outbreak | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes wife came under fire on social media on Thursday over a report she visited a shrine last month with about 50 people adding to public disapproval of how the premier has handled the coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-akie/wife-of-japans-abe-criticised-for-group-shrine-visit-adding-to-his-coronavirus-woes-idUSKCN21Y0KP | 2020-04-16 |
| Can you pay your rent with Or your water bill or your electric wrote a Twitter user with the handle Kayase | Neutral | TOKYO The Japanese city of Osaka has issued an urgent plea for citizens to donate plastic raincoats to hospitals running short of protective gear for staff treating coronavirus patients with some doctors resorting to wearing garbage bags | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-raincoats/lacking-protective-gear-japans-osaka-pleads-for-plastic-raincoats-idUSKCN21X0RO | 2020-04-16 |
| Milleys comments could again stoke tension with Beijing where Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian wrote on Twitter last month that the U.S. Army might have brought the epidemic to Wuhan | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. intelligence indicates that the coronavirus likely occurred naturally as opposed to being created in a laboratory in China but there is no certainty either way the top U.S. general said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-china-pentagon/u-s-military-says-coronavirus-likely-occurred-naturally-but-not-certain-idUSKCN21W2UH | 2020-04-15 |
| Lessig has more than 358000 Twitter followers and his Harvard biography quotes the New Yorker as calling him the most important thinker on intellectual property in the Internet era | Positive | NEW YORK A prominent Harvard Law School professor on Monday withdrew a lawsuit accusing The New York Times of clickbait concerning his views toward the late financier Jeffrey Epstein after the newspaper made changes to the online article that prompted the case | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-people-jeffrey-epstein-new-york-times/harvard-professor-withdraws-new-york-times-defamation-lawsuit-over-jeffrey-epstein-story-idUSKCN21V1SU | 2020-04-14 |
| TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday drew an angry response from some Twitter users after sharing a video of himself lounging on a sofa with his dog drinking tea and reading with a message telling people to stay at home | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday drew an angry response from some Twitter users after sharing a video of himself lounging on a sofa with his dog drinking tea and reading with a message telling people to stay at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-twitter/japan-prime-minister-criticised-as-tone-deaf-after-lounge-at-home-twitter-video-idUSKCN21U06U | 2020-04-13 |
| Earlier on Twitter Trump The big Oil Deal with is done | Positive | OPEC and allies led by Russia agreed on Sunday to a record cut in output to prop up oil prices amid the coronavirus pandemic in an unprecedented deal with fellow oil nations including the United States that could curb global oil supply by | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil-opec/opec-russia-approve-biggest-ever-oil-cut-to-support-prices-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-idUSKCN21U0J6 | 2020-04-13 |
| Who do you think you became a top trend on Twitter with users saying Abes message ignored the plight of those struggling to make a living during the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday drew an angry response from some Twitter users after sharing a video of himself lounging on a sofa with his dog drinking tea and reading with a message telling people to stay at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-twitter/japan-prime-minister-criticised-as-tone-deaf-after-lounge-at-home-twitter-video-idUSKCN21U06U | 2020-04-13 |
| Other Twitter users defended Abe saying that even the prime minister should be allowed down time | Positive | TOKYO Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday drew an angry response from some Twitter users after sharing a video of himself lounging on a sofa with his dog drinking tea and reading with a message telling people to stay at home | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-twitter/japan-prime-minister-criticised-as-tone-deaf-after-lounge-at-home-twitter-video-idUSKCN21U06U | 2020-04-13 |
| Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams took to Twitter to criticize what he called petty backandforths | Negative | New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Saturday public schools will remain closed for the rest of the school year as the city battles the novel coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-new-york/new-york-city-mayor-orders-public-schools-shut-for-rest-of-school-year-cuomo-says-its-his-call-idUSKCN21T0KU | 2020-04-12 |
| Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel who leads the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Twitter that Trump should be working with allies on COVID19 and should not extort friends | Positive | WASHINGTON When U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper rang his South Korean counterpart this week he pressed for a deal quickly on defense costsharing that President Donald Trump expects will translate into much higher contributions from Seoul | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-southkorea-trump-defense-exclusiv/exclusive-inside-trumps-standoff-with-south-korea-over-defense-costs-idUSKCN21S1W7 | 2020-04-11 |
| A Taliban spokesman said on Twitter that his group was not behind the attack | Positive | KABUL Five rockets hit a major U.S. air base in Afghanistan on Thursday but there were no casualties Afghanistans NATOled force said in an attack claimed by the Islamic State militant group | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-usa-afghanistan-attack/rockets-hit-u-s-air-base-in-afghanistan-no-casualties-idUSKCN21R0TL | 2020-04-10 |
| In a posting on Twitter Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he had consulted with congressional leaders on the need for the second round of funding | Positive | WASHINGTON The Trump administration on Tuesday asked Congress for an additional billion in emergency economic aid for small U.S. businesses reeling from the coronavirus pandemic as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pushed for passage as soon as Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-congress/trump-administration-seeks-250-billion-more-in-aid-for-small-u-s-businesses-mnuchin-idUSKBN21P2K6 | 2020-04-08 |
| Twitter spokeswoman Lauren Alexander said that this ephemeral content would also be subject to the companys hateful conduct rules | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-content-rule/twitter-bans-posts-that-dehumanize-people-in-connection-with-diseases-idUSKBN20S2K3 | 2020-04-06 |
| Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-content-rule/twitter-bans-posts-that-dehumanize-people-in-connection-with-diseases-idUSKBN20S2K3 | 2020-04-06 |
| Democratic U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal said in a post on Twitter that the appointment was akin to putting a fox in charge of the henhouse | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trumps pick for the new watchdog overseeing | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-pelosi/democrats-say-trump-pick-for-coronavirus-recovery-watchdog-is-not-independent-enough-idUSKBN21M0TA | 2020-04-05 |
| One of a small number of Japanese executives who are also household names Son has recently returned to Twitter to express his concern about the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | TOKYO SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Friday began polling his Twitter followers over whether a state of emergency should be declared as the number of people in Tokyo infected with the coronavirus continues to rise | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-softbank-group/softbanks-son-tests-state-of-emergency-appetite-via-twitter-poll-idUSKBN21L1SF | 2020-04-04 |
| Sons Twitter poll runs for 24 hours but 30 minutes after launching had more than 40000 votes with in favour of declaring a state of emergency | Neutral | TOKYO SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Friday began polling his Twitter followers over whether a state of emergency should be declared as the number of people in Tokyo infected with the coronavirus continues to rise | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-softbank-group/softbanks-son-tests-state-of-emergency-appetite-via-twitter-poll-idUSKBN21L1SF | 2020-04-04 |
| An image was posted on Twitter last week of a malpractice law firms website which featured a blog post titled What you should know about medical negligence during the COVID19 crisis | Negative | U.S. medical professionals on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic are lobbying policymakers for protection from potential malpractice lawsuits as hospitals triage care and physicians take on roles outside their specialties | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-lawsuits/u-s-doctors-on-coronavirus-frontline-seek-protection-from-malpractice-suits-idUSKBN21K2IQ | 2020-04-04 |
| On Twitter the phrase or Mexico without beer was trending on Friday | Neutral | MEXICO CITY Mexicans fretted about beer supplies on Friday after Dutch brewer Heineken said it will suspend production at its seven plants in Mexico to comply with coronavirus containment measures following a similar announcement by rival Modelo | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-heineken-hld-mexico/mexico-without-corona-brewers-suspend-production-during-pandemic-idUSKBN21L29Q | 2020-04-04 |
| TOKYO SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Friday began polling his Twitter followers over whether a state of emergency should be declared as the number of people in Tokyo infected with the coronavirus continues to rise | Negative | TOKYO SoftBank Group Corp founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Friday began polling his Twitter followers over whether a state of emergency should be declared as the number of people in Tokyo infected with the coronavirus continues to rise | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-softbank-group/softbanks-son-tests-state-of-emergency-appetite-via-twitter-poll-idUSKBN21L1SF | 2020-04-04 |
| Meanwhile back on Twitter the premiers offer of two masks per household was the object of particular scorn | Positive | TOKYO Facing calls to declare a coronavirus state of emergency Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was derided on social media on Thursday for instead offering people cloth masks pointing to growing frustration with his handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-masks/two-masks-no-lockdown-japan-pms-latest-coronavirus-step-riles-social-media-idUSKBN21K0CQ | 2020-04-03 |
| Twitter users were scathing with Abe and mask references trending | Negative | TOKYO Facing calls to declare a coronavirus state of emergency Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was derided on social media on Thursday for instead offering people cloth masks pointing to growing frustration with his handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-masks/two-masks-no-lockdown-japan-pms-latest-coronavirus-step-riles-social-media-idUSKBN21K0CQ | 2020-04-03 |
| A commenter using the Twitter handle Yosuke asked If your family has more than two people what are you supposed to do fight over | Neutral | TOKYO Facing calls to declare a coronavirus state of emergency Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was derided on social media on Thursday for instead offering people cloth masks pointing to growing frustration with his handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan-masks/two-masks-no-lockdown-japan-pms-latest-coronavirus-step-riles-social-media-idUSKBN21K0CQ | 2020-04-03 |
| Macdonald wrote on Twitter adding that the company was working on securing more supplies | Neutral | Uber Technologies Inc will begin shipping disinfecting car spray to selected drivers in areas most affected by the coronavirus outbreak an executive said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-uber/uber-to-start-shipping-car-disinfectants-to-drivers-idUSKBN21K2MU | 2020-04-03 |
| Another Russian Twitter user pointed out that while ventilators had landed in New York similar shipments were not reaching needy Russian cities such as Saratov and Voronezh | Negative | MOSCOW A Russian medical equipment delivery to the United States to help fight the coronavirus drew anger from critics of the Kremlin on Thursday who pointed out that Russia was itself experiencing severe shortages of such items | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-usa-backlas/what-about-us-russias-coronavirus-supplies-to-united-states-spark-criticism-at-home-idUSKBN21K1WR | 2020-04-03 |
| Twitter said it removed the accounts because they violated its policies and were a targeted attempt to undermine the public conversation | Negative | BRUSSELS Twitter took down thousands of accounts linked to Egypt Honduras Indonesia Saudi Arabia and Serbia on Thursday for either taking directions from the governments or promoting progovernment content | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-accounts/twitter-removes-accounts-linked-to-egypt-saudi-arabia-other-countries-idUSKBN21K1SK | 2020-04-03 |
| One of my friends who works in Tokyo is still commuting on packed wrote a user under the Twitter handle Arikan | Positive | TOKYO Japan will ban entry to foreigners from 73 countries and ask everyone arriving from abroad to quarantine themselves for two weeks as it struggles to contain the coronavirus with a senior minister warning the country had been pushed to the | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-health-coronavirus-japan/japan-on-the-brink-as-it-struggles-to-hold-back-coronavirus-idUSKBN21I3LX | 2020-04-02 |
| Twitter on Tuesday was flooded with tweets calling for others to set aside pranks as the world grapples with the severity of the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | NEW YORK With life in most of the United States grinding to a halt and the economy set to tip into a recession or worse Americans appear to have no appetite for April Fools Day this year | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-aprilfoolsday/for-americans-pandemic-takes-the-fun-out-of-april-fools-this-year-idUSKBN21J52W | 2020-04-02 |
| Other Twitter users wondered if Lohan was pulling an April Fools Day stunt | Negative | LOS ANGELES Actress Lindsay Lohan whose promising movie career crashed a decade ago in a string of legal woes and substance abuse on Tuesday announced she was making a comeback with a new music single | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-lindsay-lohan/lindsay-lohan-says-im-back-teasing-new-single-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN21I3GC | 2020-04-01 |
| Spokesman Ofir Gendelman said on Twitter that Netanyahu his family and staff all tested negative but he will remain quarantined until further instructions are issued by the Ministry of | Negative | JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tested negative for the coronavirus on Monday after a parliamentary aide was confirmed to be carrying the virus though the 70yearold leader would remain in isolation a spokesman said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel-netanyahu/israels-netanyahu-tests-negative-for-coronavirus-after-aide-confirmed-carrier-idUSKBN21H0P9 | 2020-03-31 |
| The Twitter aggression is aimed not only at Washington | Negative | Diplomats returning from overseas postings dont usually receive special attention at Chinas Ministry of Foreign Affairs a vast government bureaucracy with thousands of staff | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-diplomacy-insight/in-china-a-young-diplomat-rises-as-aggressive-foreign-policy-takes-root-idUSKBN21I0F8 | 2020-03-31 |
| Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler said on Twitter on Monday that the final rule will raise U.S. fleet fuel economy reduce air pollution and make new vehicles more affordable | Neutral | WASHINGTON The Trump administration plans to announce on Tuesday it is finalizing its effort to roll back Obama era vehicle emissions rules and will mandate average annual increases in fuel efficiency standards of 1 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-autos-emissions/u-s-to-finalize-fuel-efficiency-rewrite-through-2026-sources-idUSKBN21H39T | 2020-03-31 |
| In response Trump sought to tamp down antiAsian some Americans saying in a post on Twitter that it is very important that we totally protect our Asian American community | Positive | WASHINGTON The coronavirus pandemic is forcing President Donald Trump to show empathy to console Americans under siege and its not easy for a brash leader more accustomed to bellicose politics | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-trump-tone/trump-struggles-with-tone-in-virus-crisis-aides-urge-more-empathy-idUSKBN21F0UO | 2020-03-29 |
| Trump said on Twitter that the advisory would be administered by the governors of New York New Jersey and Connecticut in consultation with the federal government | Neutral | NEW YORK March 28 President Donald Trump said on Saturday that a quarantine of the New York area to curb the spread of the coronavirus would not be necessary and that he had asked federal health officials to issue a strong travel instead | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/health-coronavirus-usa-quarantine/trump-says-quarantine-not-necessary-for-new-york-area-idUSL1N2BM00H | 2020-03-29 |
| Even before the 49yearold drew Trumps ire on Twitter he had been a thorn in the side of both parties for so long that hes nicknamed Mr | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Representative Thomas Massie enraged President Donald Trump and leaders of Congress by trying to delay a planned Friday voice vote on a | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-massie-factbox/factbox-mr-no-meet-the-u-s-congressman-who-requested-a-formal-vote-to-delay-the-coronavirus-bill-idUSKBN21E26K | 2020-03-28 |
| Dylan 78 announced the release of Murder Most on his website and on Twitter saying it was an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting | Positive | LOS ANGELES Bob Dylan on Friday released a 17minute song inspired by the assassination more than five decades ago of U.S. President John F. Kennedy the influential singers first original music since 2012 | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-music-bob-dylan/bob-dylan-drops-17-min-song-inspired-by-kennedy-assassination-idUSKBN21E2U1 | 2020-03-28 |
| Hanks last posting on his Twitter account on Sunday said it had been two weeks since their first symptoms and that they were feeling better | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson returned to Los Angeles on Friday after spending more than two weeks in quarantine in Australia after testing positive for the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-hanks/tom-hanks-returns-to-la-after-bout-of-coronavirus-media-reports-idUSKBN21F00L | 2020-03-28 |
| He said on Twitter that 7286 tests had been conducted in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of tests carried out in Turkey to around 40000 | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkeys death toll from the coronavirus increased by 16 to 75 on Thursday as the number of confirmed cases rose by 1196 to 3629 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey-toll/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-jumps-to-75-with-1196-new-cases-minister-idUSKBN21D3IM | 2020-03-27 |
| He said on Twitter that 3952 tests had been conducted in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of tests carried out in Turkey to around 28000 | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkeys death toll from the coronavirus increased by seven to 44 on Tuesday as the number of confirmed cases rose by 343 to 1872 Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-turkey/turkeys-coronavirus-death-toll-up-seven-to-44-with-343-new-cases-minister-idUSKBN21B36X | 2020-03-25 |
| creator LinManuel Miranda said on Twitter he was heartbroken calling McNally a giant in our world who straddled plays and musicals deftly | Neutral | LOS ANGELES Tony awardwinning playwright Terrence McNally known for plays like and for musical version of Kiss of the Spider died on Tuesday of complications related to the coronavirus his representative said | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-terrence-mcnally/broadway-playwright-terrence-mcnally-dies-of-coronavirus-complications-idUSKBN21B36R | 2020-03-25 |
| Anand Mahindra group company chairman said on Twitter that the company would begin work immediately on how it can make ventilators | Positive | The move comes after automakers shut plants last week in Europe the United States Canada and Mexico | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/autos/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-autos/automakers-in-india-halt-production-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21907X | 2020-03-24 |
| The warning from Twitter comes two weeks after it reached an agreement with Elliott Management that allowed Jack Dorsey to stay on as chief executive and added three new directors | Positive | Twitter Inc TWTR.O pulled its firstquarter revenue outlook and forecast an operating loss on Monday as the coronavirus outbreak crimped ad sales but said the pandemic boosted the number of active users on the microblogging platform | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-ad-sales-hit-by-coronavirus-but-active-users-soar-idUSKBN21A3HY | 2020-03-24 |
| As part of the agreement Twitter had pledged to grow daily users by or more in 2020 and beyond roughly in line with user growth in its fourth quarter | Positive | Twitter Inc TWTR.O pulled its firstquarter revenue outlook and forecast an operating loss on Monday as the coronavirus outbreak crimped ad sales but said the pandemic boosted the number of active users on the microblogging platform | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-ad-sales-hit-by-coronavirus-but-active-users-soar-idUSKBN21A3HY | 2020-03-24 |
| Hours later Bolsonaro said on Twitter he was suspending that measure | Negative | BRASILIA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was forced on Monday to walk back a decree letting companies suspend pay to workers amid the coronavirus pandemic following barbs from congressional leaders and rising discontent over his handling of the crisis | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil/brazils-bolsonaro-walks-back-decree-to-suspend-worker-pay-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN21A27O | 2020-03-24 |
| Sheinbaum wrote on her Twitter page that the circuit usually staffed with safety personal at intersections was suspended to prevent the spread of coronavirus and promote a safe between people | Negative | MEXICO CITY The streets in the heart of Mexico City usually clogged with bikers most Sundays grew noticeably quiet after the mayor ordered a popular outdoors event suspended along with other measures even as the president has so far avoided such action | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-runners/mexico-city-grows-quieter-as-mayor-moves-to-stem-coronavirus-spread-idUSKBN219150 | 2020-03-23 |
| Anand Mahindra group company chairman said on Twitter that the company will immediately begin work on how it can make ventilators at its plants | Positive | The move comes after automakers shut plants last week in Europe the United States Canada and Mexico as the global death toll from coronavirus exceeded 13000 | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-autos/automakers-halt-production-in-india-due-to-coronavirus-idUSKBN21907X | 2020-03-23 |
| The Talibans Doha office spokesman Suhail Shaheen also confirmed the meeting on Twitter but stressed that the discussion was only about the release of prisoners | Positive | KABUL The Taliban and the Afghan government held a meeting on prisoner releases on Sunday officials said offering some hope of a breakthrough on a matter that has deadlocked the two sides and threatened a nascent peace process | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-taliban/taliban-afghan-government-skype-call-breathes-life-into-peace-process-idUSKBN21912M | 2020-03-23 |
| On her personal Twitter feed Marks on Thursday said she had decided to quarantine herself but did not address why she did not do so earlier | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. State Department employees have complained about the U.S. ambassador to South Africas failure to selfisolate immediately after returning from a U.S. visit when she attended a March 7 MaraLago event some of whose attendees have tested positive for coronavirus according to messages reviewed by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-usa/u-s-envoy-to-south-africa-draws-fire-after-possible-virus-exposure-idUSKBN2173ML | 2020-03-21 |
| In the past few days questions have swirled on Twitter about how some celebrities sports teams and bankers managed to get the tests when they were hard to come by | Negative | NEW YORK As U.S. authorities scrambled to ramp up the nations capacity to test for coronavirus last week at least 100 executives and other New Yorkers of means had easy access to testing according to two sources familiar with the activities of a littleknown medical service catering to the affluent | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testing-sollis/how-one-elite-new-york-medical-provider-got-its-patients-coronavirus-tests-idUSKBN2170GR | 2020-03-20 |
| On his Twitter account Bolsonaro said on Thursday that there will be maximum for continued port operations in Brazil | Positive | SAO PAULO A group of almost 50 agribusiness associations has sought support from the federal government to guarantee Brazilian ports continue to operate amid the coronavirus crisis according to a letter dated March 18 seen by Reuters | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-ports/brazil-agribusiness-groups-seek-government-support-to-keep-ports-running-letter-idUSKBN2163ZU | 2020-03-20 |
| Is that said one user on Chinas Twitterlike Weibo where news of the report was the top read topic with over 160 million views on Thursday evening | Positive | SHANGHAI A Chinese report into the coronavirus death of a young doctor reprimanded by police for spreading when he tried to raise the alarm about the disease drew quick criticism online after it merely suggested the reprimand be withdrawn | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-doctor/is-that-it-chinese-report-into-death-of-doctor-who-raised-coronavirus-alarm-underwhelms-idUSKBN2162RQ | 2020-03-20 |
| Separately Tesla CEO Elon Musk used his Twitter account to offer his companys services | Positive | From Washington to London Beijing to Rome governments are drafting automakers and aerospace manufacturers to ramp up production of ventilators and other medical equipment to bolster what most experts say is an inadequate arsenal of coronavirus treatment tools | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-meggitt-ventilator/worlds-governments-draft-manufacturers-for-virus-treatment-arsenal-idUSKBN2163SJ | 2020-03-20 |
| U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said on Twitter that any money should come with serious longterm change to the companies no more buybacks a minimum wage and more | Neutral | Shares in U.S. airlines fell sharply on Wednesday after Washington proposed a rescue package of billion in loans but no grants as the industry had requested to help address the financial impact from the deepening coronavirus crisis | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-health-coronavirus-airlines-usa/u-s-airlines-shares-plunge-after-cash-free-washington-rescue-proposal-idUSKBN2153PZ | 2020-03-19 |
| His National Security Advisor former General Augusto Heleno said earlier on Twitter that he had tested positive and was quarantined at home with no symptoms | Positive | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazils President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday a second cabinet member Mines and Energy Minister Bento Albuquerque has tested positive for coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-albuquerque/brazils-mines-energy-minister-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-president-idUSKBN2153E8 | 2020-03-19 |
| We will make ventilators if there is a Musk said on Twitter responding to a fans suggestion that the billionaire repurpose a factory for the task | Positive | We will make ventilators if there is a Musk said on Twitter responding to a fans suggestion that the billionaire repurpose a factory for the task | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-health-coronavirus-musk/teslas-musk-offers-to-make-ventilators-amid-shortage-in-coronavirus-battle-idUSKBN2160PM | 2020-03-19 |
| American Fabiano Caruana ranked second in the world wrote on Twitter last week that his flight to Russia had been cancelled and that he would have to find an alternative | Negative | MOSCOW Eight of the worlds best chess players began competing in an international tournament in Russia on Tuesday but were told by organisers that handshakes would be optional because of the coronavirus that has halted most sports around the world | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-chess/handshakes-optional-russia-hosts-major-chess-tournament-despite-coronavirus-idUSKBN2142VK | 2020-03-18 |
| Twitter said it too would step up use of similar automation but would not ban users based solely on automated enforcement because of accuracy concerns | Positive | Such software is not always as accurate as humans which leads to errors it added however | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-google/social-media-giants-warn-of-ai-moderation-errors-as-coronavirus-empties-offices-idUSKBN2133BM | 2020-03-17 |
| U.S. technology companies including Microsoft Corp Facebook Alphabets Google and Twitter are working together to quell misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms the companies said in a joint statement on Monday | Positive | U.S. technology companies including Microsoft Corp Facebook Alphabets Google and Twitter are working together to quell misinformation about the coronavirus on their platforms the companies said in a joint statement on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-tech/u-s-tech-firms-work-together-to-combat-virus-misinformation-idUSKBN214039 | 2020-03-17 |
| Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wrote on Twitter on Monday that the state government was working to keep Election Day safe and accessible | Positive | WASHINGTON Ohio will postpone its presidential nominating election planned for Tuesday despite a judges refusal to endorse a postponement because the public health emergency caused by the coronavirus makes it too dangerous Governor Mike DeWine said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/coronavirus-leads-ohio-to-delay-election-despite-judges-refusal-idUSKBN2131B7 | 2020-03-17 |
| Abigail Disney grand daughter of Walt Disney Cos cofounder Roy Disney slammed a Twitter post showing a huge crowd at Sunday nights showing of Ever After a fireworks show in Floridas Magic Kingdom theme park | Positive | Abigail Disney grand daughter of Walt Disney Cos cofounder Roy Disney slammed a Twitter post showing a huge crowd at Sunday nights showing of Ever After a fireworks show in Floridas Magic Kingdom theme park | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-walt-disney/abigail-disney-slams-tweet-showing-huge-crowds-at-magic-kingdom-idUSKBN2130MQ | 2020-03-16 |
| Many Twitter users criticized Disney over the WDW News Today tweet and said the parks should have been shut down because of the coronavirus epidemic | Negative | Abigail Disney grand daughter of Walt Disney Cos cofounder Roy Disney slammed a Twitter post showing a huge crowd at Sunday nights showing of Ever After a fireworks show in Floridas Magic Kingdom theme park | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-walt-disney/abigail-disney-slams-tweet-showing-huge-crowds-at-magic-kingdom-idUSKBN2130MQ | 2020-03-16 |
| Foreign Minister JeanYves Le Drian said on Twitter that there would be 40 flights from Morocco to France on Sunday with more to follow in the coming days | Negative | France has asked airlines to help bring back thousands of French citizens stuck in Morocco after the North African country halted flights because of the coronavirus French Transport Minister JeanBaptiste Djebbari said on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-morocco-france/france-asks-airlines-to-help-citizens-stuck-in-morocco-idUSKBN2120O3 | 2020-03-16 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said on Twitter he had a conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that the United States and Canada will continue to coordinate closely on the coronavirus outbreak | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said on Twitter he had a conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and that the United States and Canada will continue to coordinate closely on the coronavirus outbreak | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-canada/trump-says-u-s-and-canada-to-continue-to-coordinate-closely-on-coronavirus-idUSKBN211135 | 2020-03-15 |
| Frances ambassador to Morocco Helene Le Gal said on Twitter that the embassy had received some 5000 calls in the last 24 hours | Negative | French authorities were on Saturday trying to arrange emergency flights from Morocco to bring back dozens of French nationals who were unable to leave after the North African nation suspended flights to European countries over coronavirus fears | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-france-morocco/france-scrambles-to-repatriate-citizens-as-morocco-stops-flights-over-coronavirus-idUSKBN2110YC | 2020-03-15 |
| Trump wants a wall to block migrants from entering the United States and wrote on Twitter that the barrier is now needed more than as coronavirus spreads | Negative | MEXICO CITY Mexico could consider tightening its northern border to slow the spread of coronavirus into its relatively unaffected territory health officials said on Friday with an eye to containing a U.S. outbreak that has infected more than 1800 people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico/mexico-frets-about-u-s-coronavirus-spread-could-tighten-border-idUSKBN2102BY | 2020-03-14 |
| Twitter is blocked in China though Chinese diplomats have taken to the platform with increasing gusto tweeting in English aiming at a foreign audience | Negative | BEIJING Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang sidestepped questions on Friday about whether Beijing blames the United States for the coronavirus a day after another spokesman suggested the U.S. army could have planted it | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-sidesteps-spokesmans-claim-of-u-s-role-in-coronavirus-outbreak-idUSKBN21012U | 2020-03-14 |
| Zhao an avid and often combative Twitter user did not offer any evidence for his suggestion that the U.S. military might be to blame for the outbreak in China | Negative | BEIJING A spokesman for Chinas Foreign Ministry suggested on Thursday the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan which has been hardest hit by the outbreak doubling down on a war of words with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-government-spokesman-says-u-s-military-may-have-brought-virus-to-china-idUSKBN20Z196 | 2020-03-13 |
| In a strongly worded tweet written in English on his verified Twitter account Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said it was the United States that lacked transparency | Negative | BEIJING A spokesman for Chinas Foreign Ministry suggested on Thursday the U.S. military might have brought the coronavirus to the Chinese city of Wuhan which has been hardest hit by the outbreak doubling down on a war of words with Washington | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-usa/china-government-spokesman-says-u-s-military-may-have-brought-virus-to-china-idUSKBN20Z196 | 2020-03-13 |
| NEW MEXICO Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a post on Twitter that the state would be closing its public schools for three weeks beginning Monday | Neutral | Concerns over the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States forced cancellations closings and postponements throughout sports entertainment and education on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cancellation-postp/factbox-u-s-coronavirus-cancellations-closings-and-postponements-idUSKBN2100AO | 2020-03-13 |
| Last week Trump wrote on Twitter that his signature border wall is needed more than citing coronavirus as a new argument for the barrier | Negative | MEXICO CITY True to form U.S. President Donald Trump has warned coronavirus could spread from Mexico touting his antimigrant wall as a solution | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus-mexico-wall/mexicans-wonder-if-trumps-wall-could-stop-coronavirus-spreading-south-idUSKBN21003G | 2020-03-13 |
| Twitter characterized the accounts many of which were created in July 2019 as attempting to sow discord by engaging in conversations about social issues like race and civil rights | Negative | This activity did not appear to focus on elections or promote or denigrate political Facebook said in a blog post | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-facebook-content/facebook-twitter-remove-russia-linked-accounts-in-ghana-targeting-u-s-idUSKBN20Z3LW | 2020-03-13 |
| Oscarwinning actor Tom Hanks announced on Twitter that he and his wife Rita Wilson had tested positive for coronavirus in Australia where he was on a film shoot | Negative | WASHINGTON Travelers scrambled to rebook flights and global markets reeled on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed sweeping restrictions on travel from Europe hitting battered airlines and further straining ties with the continent | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-health-coronavirus/trump-restricts-travel-from-europe-as-coronavirus-disrupts-life-in-u-s-idUSKBN20Z0DY | 2020-03-12 |
| In response to the article Wajngarten wrote on Twitter that he is healthy | Positive | BRASILIA A Brazilian government official who attended an official meeting at Donald Trumps resort in Florida on Saturday and posted a photo of himself standing next to the U.S. president is being tested for coronavirus the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-trump/brazilian-official-who-met-trump-testing-for-coronavirus-paper-idUSKBN20Z071 | 2020-03-12 |
| The crash occurred when one train slid back crashing into another Sheinbaum wrote in a post on Twitter adding that an investigation was underway | Negative | MEXICO CITY At least one person was killed and 41 injured when two trains collided on Mexico Citys underground metro network late on Tuesday local authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-train-crash/at-least-one-dead-dozens-injured-in-mexico-city-metro-crash-idUSKBN20Y0VV | 2020-03-12 |
| TOKYO SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son may not be the most prolific Twitter user but he has ended a threeyear absence on the platform to express concern about the coronavirus outbreak telling followers that he would take action | Negative | TOKYO SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son may not be the most prolific Twitter user but he has ended a threeyear absence on the platform to express concern about the coronavirus outbreak telling followers that he would take action | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-health-coronavirus-softbank-group/softbanks-son-ends-twitter-absence-over-coronavirus-worries-idUSKBN20Y0FL | 2020-03-11 |
| Twitter said in its statement that it would use the Silver Lake investment to help fund a billion share repurchase program | Positive | Silver Lake also will invest billion in Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-elliott/twitter-elliott-in-deal-for-dorsey-to-stay-ceo-and-add-directors-idUSKBN20W1SS | 2020-03-10 |
| Twitters Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal who was privy to the discussions said he believed the arrangement reflected more than shortterm support for Dorsey | Positive | Silver Lake also will invest billion in Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-elliott/twitter-elliott-in-deal-for-dorsey-to-stay-ceo-and-add-directors-idUSKBN20W1SS | 2020-03-10 |
| A Twitter account with the user name Robinhood Class Action now has more than 7650 followers | Neutral | Robinhood Markets Inc the fintech startup that introduced millions of millennials to equities options and crypto trading greets visitors to its website with the motto Its Time to Do Money | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-fintech-robinhood-trading/robinhood-trading-app-suffers-another-outage-as-markets-whipsaw-idUSKBN20W23F | 2020-03-10 |
| The board will also create a temporary committee to evaluate Twitters leadership structure and CEO succession plan that will share the results publicly before the end of the year | Positive | Silver Lake also will invest billion in Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-elliott/twitter-elliott-in-deal-for-dorsey-to-stay-ceo-and-add-directors-idUSKBN20W1SS | 2020-03-10 |
| In a conversation on Twitter user Nothing like seeing someone cough into their hand and then start picking through produce | Positive | YORK Fearful of coronavirus and potential quarantine U.S. shoppers are avoiding touching fresh fruits and vegetables in grocery stores and stocking their pantries with pretzels powered milk canned meat and other packaged food | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-produce/wary-of-coronavirus-u-s-shoppers-skip-the-fresh-produce-aisle-idUSKBN20W2SS | 2020-03-10 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc has used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc has used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-debuts-manipulated-media-label-on-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-10 |
| While our CEO structure is unique so is Jack and so is this Twitters lead independent director Patrick Pichette said in a statement | Neutral | Silver Lake also will invest billion in Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-elliott/twitter-elliott-in-deal-for-dorsey-to-stay-ceo-and-add-directors-idUSKBN20W1SS | 2020-03-10 |
| Twitter rolled out its new policy which labels tweets with altered or synthetic media such as socalled deepfakes or more manually edited videos on March 5 | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc has used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-debuts-manipulated-media-label-on-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-10 |
| Twitter shares were up about 0 | Neutral | Silver Lake also will invest billion in Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-elliott/twitter-elliott-in-deal-for-dorsey-to-stay-ceo-and-add-directors-idUSKBN20W1SS | 2020-03-10 |
| The video which had millions of views on Twitter was also posted on Scavinos Facebook page where it had about 1 million views | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc has used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-debuts-manipulated-media-label-on-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-10 |
| Twitter implemented its new policy which labels tweets with manipulated or synthetic media such as deepfakes or more manually edited videos on March 5 | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Sunday used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-labels-edited-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-as-manipulated-media-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-09 |
| However Twitters new label was not showing for all users | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Sunday used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-labels-edited-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-as-manipulated-media-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-09 |
| 8 million views on Twitter at the time of writing was also posted on Scavinos Facebook page where it had about 1 million views | Neutral | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Sunday used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-labels-edited-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-as-manipulated-media-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-09 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Sunday used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Sunday used its new manipulated label for the first time on a video clip of U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden that was retweeted by President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-twitter/twitter-labels-edited-clip-of-biden-retweeted-by-trump-as-manipulated-media-idUSKBN20W0AB | 2020-03-09 |
| Posting the video on Twitter Turkeys Deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli We are seeing European civilization at our border with Greece | Neutral | ISTANBUL Turkey released video on Saturday of what it said was a Greek soldier firing live ammunition at migrants trying to cross from Turkey | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-greece-video/turkey-says-greece-firing-live-ammunition-at-border-greece-denies-idUSKBN20U0V1 | 2020-03-08 |
| Its billionaire chief executive Elon Musk said on Twitter last month the firm would announce timings for solar projects in China and Europe without providing more details | Positive | The two posts on the Tesla human resources departments official WeChat account mark the first time the Californiabased automaker has looked to hire for such roles in China | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-china-solar/tesla-advertises-for-solar-energy-storage-staff-in-china-idUSKBN20T2C0 | 2020-03-07 |
| Cambiar Global Equity Ultra Focus Funds wrote recently that it remains on Twitter noting the company generates strong free cashflow and has significantly improved its operating and financial since 2017 | Positive | Dorsey tweeted in November as he was wrapping up a shorter trip through Africa that he was planning to move to the continent for three to six months in mid2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/embattled-twitter-chief-dorsey-reconsiders-africa-move-amid-coronavirus-concerns-idUSKBN20S2HD | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitter and other tech companies have said they were encouraging employees to work from home citing risks related to the fastspreading coronavirus outbreak | Negative | Dorsey tweeted in November as he was wrapping up a shorter trip through Africa that he was planning to move to the continent for three to six months in mid2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/embattled-twitter-chief-dorsey-reconsiders-africa-move-amid-coronavirus-concerns-idUSKBN20S2HD | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitter spokeswoman Lauren Alexander said that this ephemeral content would also be subject to the companys hateful conduct rules | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-content-rule/twitter-bans-posts-that-dehumanize-people-in-connection-with-diseases-idUSKBN20S2K3 | 2020-03-06 |
| Hu Xijin the editor of the widelyread Chinese statebacked tabloid the Global Times wrote on Twitter that President Donald Trump administrations attempts to downplay the epidemic is | Negative | BEIJING Wuhan the epicenter of Chinas coronavirus epidemic will likely infections drop to zero by the end of this month an expert with the countrys top panel on battling the illness said on Thursday even as the city reported a quicker rise in new confirmed cases | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-healthcare-coronavirus-china/new-coronavirus-infections-may-drop-to-zero-by-end-march-in-wuhan-chinese-government-expert-idUSKBN20S02J | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitter and Facebook have suspended more than 80 accounts following a Reuters investigation that linked them to a network of news sites backed by the Indonesian army that publish progovernment propaganda about the restive region of Papua | Negative | Twitter and Facebook have suspended more than 80 accounts following a Reuters investigation that linked them to a network of news sites backed by the Indonesian army that publish progovernment propaganda about the restive region of Papua | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-twitter-papua/twitter-facebook-suspend-accounts-linked-to-indonesian-armys-papua-campaign-idUSKBN20S0TA | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitter gives shareholders equal voting rights and Dorsey a cofounder of the company owns only about of the company | Positive | Dorsey tweeted in November as he was wrapping up a shorter trip through Africa that he was planning to move to the continent for three to six months in mid2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/embattled-twitter-chief-dorsey-reconsiders-africa-move-amid-coronavirus-concerns-idUSKBN20S2HD | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter read the message displayed on the platform in response to Reuters efforts to access the accounts | Negative | Twitter and Facebook have suspended more than 80 accounts following a Reuters investigation that linked them to a network of news sites backed by the Indonesian army that publish progovernment propaganda about the restive region of Papua | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-twitter-papua/twitter-facebook-suspend-accounts-linked-to-indonesian-armys-papua-campaign-idUSKBN20S0TA | 2020-03-06 |
| Dorsey also said he has a good sense of what is in both Twitter and Square and enough in his schedule to focus on the most important priorities at each | Positive | Dorsey tweeted in November as he was wrapping up a shorter trip through Africa that he was planning to move to the continent for three to six months in mid2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/embattled-twitter-chief-dorsey-reconsiders-africa-move-amid-coronavirus-concerns-idUSKBN20S2HD | 2020-03-06 |
| A Twitter spokesman declined to comment on the reasons for the suspensions | Negative | Twitter and Facebook have suspended more than 80 accounts following a Reuters investigation that linked them to a network of news sites backed by the Indonesian army that publish progovernment propaganda about the restive region of Papua | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-twitter-papua/twitter-facebook-suspend-accounts-linked-to-indonesian-armys-papua-campaign-idUSKBN20S0TA | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitters shares were down 2 | Neutral | Dorsey tweeted in November as he was wrapping up a shorter trip through Africa that he was planning to move to the continent for three to six months in mid2020 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-twitter/embattled-twitter-chief-dorsey-reconsiders-africa-move-amid-coronavirus-concerns-idUSKBN20S2HD | 2020-03-06 |
| Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday it is banning posts that people because they have a disease or disability or because of their age a step that happens to correspond to an explosion of tweets about the spreading coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainment/artshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-content-rule/twitter-bans-posts-that-dehumanize-people-in-connection-with-diseases-idUSKBN20S2K3 | 2020-03-06 |
| March 4 Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would stop any attempt by advertisers to use the coronavirus outbreak to send inappropriate advertisements to its users | Negative | March 4 Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it would stop any attempt by advertisers to use the coronavirus outbreak to send inappropriate advertisements to its users | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-twitter/twitter-joins-social-media-clampdown-on-coronavirus-related-ads-idUSL4N2AX3SV | 2020-03-05 |
| March 4 Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it was testing tweets in Brazil that disappear after 24 hours similar to the stories feature by Facebooks photosharing app Instagram | Positive | March 4 Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it was testing tweets in Brazil that disappear after 24 hours similar to the stories feature by Facebooks photosharing app Instagram | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-fleets/twitter-testing-disappearing-fleets-in-brazil-idUSL4N2AX4ZH | 2020-03-05 |
| Late last year Twitter launched a feature for users to hide certain replies on their tweets | Neutral | March 4 Twitter Inc said on Wednesday it was testing tweets in Brazil that disappear after 24 hours similar to the stories feature by Facebooks photosharing app Instagram | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-fleets/twitter-testing-disappearing-fleets-in-brazil-idUSL4N2AX4ZH | 2020-03-05 |
| Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying took to Twitter with a more strident message that appeared to threaten retaliation | Negative | The United States on Monday said it was slashing the number of Chinese nationals permitted to work at the U.S. offices of major Chinese stateowned media outlets to retaliate against Beijings longstanding intimidation and harassment of journalists | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-media-state/u-s-says-to-reduce-employees-at-chinese-media-china-hints-of-response-idUSKBN20P2PR | 2020-03-04 |
| The run on toilet paper in particular has sparked the trending hashtags and on Twitter along with photos of overloaded shopping trolleys and calls for calm from baffled officials | Negative | SYDNEY Australias major grocers put strict limits on purchases of toilet paper on Wednesday after a rush of panic buying related to coronavirus fears emptied shelves as the country recorded its third case of local transmission of the disease | http://www.reuters.com/news/health/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australian-stores-ration-toilet-paper-amid-coronavirus-panic-buying-idUSKBN20R001 | 2020-03-04 |
| Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said in a statement on Twitter that three of those testing positive were close contacts of a known case | Positive | LONDON British health authorities said on Sunday there had been 12 new cases of coronavirus in Britain bringing the total to 35 | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-britain-tests/uk-government-says-12-new-positive-tests-for-coronavirus-total-now-35-idUSKBN20O1T0 | 2020-03-04 |
| Elon Musk said late on Monday he supported Jack Dorsey remaining as Twitter Incs chief executive officer two days after reports that activist investor Elliott Management Corp has pushed for his removal from the role | Positive | Elon Musk said late on Monday he supported Jack Dorsey remaining as Twitter Incs chief executive officer two days after reports that activist investor Elliott Management Corp has pushed for his removal from the role | http://www.reuters.com/finance/article/us-twitter-elliott-musk/musk-tweets-support-for-dorsey-remaining-as-twitter-ceo-idUSKBN20Q089 | 2020-03-03 |
| Writing on Twitter late on Saturday Mohamed ElErian chief economic adviser to Allianz said reassuring words may not be enough to stem the rout given the negative news | Negative | WASHINGTON Senior officials in President Donald Trumps administration on Sunday tried to calm market panic that the coronavirus could cause a global recession saying the U.S. public had overreacted and that stocks would rebound due to the American economys underlying strength | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-markets/u-s-officials-talk-down-coronavirus-market-panic-tout-economic-strength-idUSKBN20O25K | 2020-03-02 |
| New York state has confirmed its first coronavirus case Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Twitter Sunday evening calling on residents to remain calm and not have any undue anxiety | Positive | New York state has confirmed its first coronavirus case Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Twitter Sunday evening calling on residents to remain calm and not have any undue anxiety | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa-new-york/new-york-governor-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-in-state-idUSKBN20P037 | 2020-03-02 |
| British Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliot said on Twitter that efforts were under way to support British nationals in the hotel and to plan for safe return | Positive | TENERIFE An Italian national staying at a hotel in Tenerife which has been placed on lockdown after four cases of the coronavirus were detected has tested positive for the virus regional health authorities confirmed on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-spain-tenerife/new-coronavirus-case-confirmed-at-tenerife-hotel-on-lockdown-idUSKBN20N0SZ | 2020-03-01 |
| NEW YORK Feb 28 Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has built a stake in Twitter inc and is pushing for changes a person familiar with the matter said on Friday | Negative | NEW YORK Feb 28 Activist hedge fund Elliott Management has built a stake in Twitter inc and is pushing for changes a person familiar with the matter said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/twitter-elliott/elliott-built-a-stake-in-twitter-is-pushing-for-changes-source-idUSL2N2AT02J | 2020-02-29 |
| On Thursday evening riders including fourtime Tour de France winner Chris Froome took to Twitter to say they were confined to their hotel rooms | Negative | DUBAI Two luxury hotels in Abu Dhabi were in lockdown on Friday to isolate guests including scores of professional cyclists after two Italian members of the tour the riders were participating in were suspected of contracting the coronavirus | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-emirates/cycle-stars-in-lockdown-as-two-gulf-hotels-isolated-over-coronavirus-scare-idUSKCN20M1UW | 2020-02-29 |
| Pereira meanwhile continued to decry on Twitter what he says is an electoral coup and hailed support he has received from party allies in the government and parliament | Negative | BISSAU GuineaBissaus outgoing president handed over power on Thursday to the declared winner of Decembers election former army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo even as the Supreme Court considered a new request by the runnerup to annul the vote | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-bissau-election/embalo-sworn-in-as-guinea-bissau-president-election-remains-in-dispute-idUSKCN20L2XL | 2020-02-28 |
| Toshihito Kumagai mayor of Chiba east of Tokyo took to Twitter to slam the school closures as disruptive especially for parents who work at medical facilities police and fire stations | Negative | TOKYO Angry Japanese parents joined bewildered teachers and businesses on Friday in a rush to find new ways to live and work for a month after Prime Minister Shinzo Abes shock call for all schools to close in a bid to stop coronavirus spreading | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-japan/japan-scrambles-for-workarounds-after-abe-urges-march-school-shutdown-to-stem-coronavirus-idUSKCN20M0AM | 2020-02-28 |
| DUBAI Kuwaits health ministry said on Twitter on Wednesday that the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus in the country had risen to 25 after 13 more cases were confirmed | Negative | DUBAI Kuwaits health ministry said on Twitter on Wednesday that the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus in the country had risen to 25 after 13 more cases were confirmed | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-china-health-kuwait/kuwait-says-total-of-25-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-kuna-idUSKCN20K198 | 2020-02-27 |
| A post on Mahathirs official Twitter account said he had met with finance ministry officials on Wednesday to discuss the stimulus measures | Positive | Malaysias Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday two days after he quit as premier that an economic stimulus package will be announced soon | http://www.reuters.com/finance/markets/article/us-malaysia-politics-stimulus/malaysias-mahathir-says-economic-stimulus-package-to-be-announced-soon-idUSKCN20K0IM | 2020-02-26 |
| But Trump attacked the forewoman again during the hearing on Tuesday writing on Twitter she was totally biased as is the judge | Negative | WASHINGTON A U.S. judge on Tuesday signaled skepticism toward a bid by Roger Stone a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump to win a new trial based on claims that the jury forewoman was biased even as Trump assailed her again on Twitter | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-stone/u-s-judge-seems-skeptical-about-giving-trump-adviser-stone-a-new-trial-idUSKBN20J25Z | 2020-02-26 |
| The United Arab Emirates minister of state for foreign affairs Anwar Gargash said on Twitter that the Arab world had lost a statesman who took significant national and historic positions | Negative | CAIRO Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who ruled for 30 years until he was ousted in a popular uprising against corruption and autocracy died on Tuesday at the age of 91 | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-mubarak1/egypts-mubarak-ousted-by-popular-revolt-in-2011-dies-aged-91-idUSKBN20J1SE | 2020-02-26 |
| Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it was testing a new community moderation approach that would enable users to identify misleading information posted by politicians and public figures and add brightly colored labels under those tweets | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it was testing a new community moderation approach that would enable users to identify misleading information posted by politicians and public figures and add brightly colored labels under those tweets | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-tests-labels-community-moderation-for-lies-by-public-figures-idUSKBN20E2UR | 2020-02-23 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-twitter/twitter-suspends-group-of-pro-bloomberg-accounts-over-platform-manipulation-idUSKCN20G054 | 2020-02-23 |
| On Twitter Trump appeared to be enjoying the Democratic race | Positive | LAS VEGAS Broadbased support across age racial and ideological groups propelled Bernie Sanders to a dominant victory in Nevadas Democratic caucuses tightening his grip on the frontrunner spot in the race to find a challenger to President Donald Trump | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/broad-based-support-powers-sanders-to-big-win-in-nevada-democratic-vote-idUSKCN20H078 | 2020-02-23 |
| Washington U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said on Twitter that four candidates are under consideration for the job of U.S. intelligence chief and that a decision would come in the next few weeks | Neutral | Washington U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said on Twitter that four candidates are under consideration for the job of U.S. intelligence chief and that a decision would come in the next few weeks | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-dni-candidates/trump-says-four-candidates-being-considered-for-u-s-intelligence-chief-idUSKBN20F28H | 2020-02-22 |
| Brazils Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina said in a Twitter posting on Friday that she was informed by the U.S. government about the end of the restriction | Negative | SAO PAULO Shares of Brazilian beef processors JBS SA Marfrig Global Foods SA and Minerva SA rose near the close on Brazils B3 stock exchange after news that the United States had reopened its market to fresh Brazilian beef | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-beef-stocks/shares-of-brazilian-beef-companies-jump-as-u-s-reopens-trade-idUSKBN20F2QR | 2020-02-22 |
| Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | Negative | Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-twitter/twitter-suspends-group-of-pro-bloomberg-accounts-over-platform-manipulation-idUSKCN20G054 | 2020-02-22 |
| Twitter said the accounts violated its platform manipulation and spam policy which prohibits coordination among accounts to amplify or disrupt conversation by using multiple accounts | Negative | Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-twitter/twitter-suspends-group-of-pro-bloomberg-accounts-over-platform-manipulation-idUSKCN20G054 | 2020-02-22 |
| WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said on Twitter that the idea that Russia wants him to win reelection was another misinformation launched by Democrats | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said on Twitter that the idea that Russia wants him to win reelection was another misinformation launched by Democrats | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-reelection/trump-says-russia-supporting-his-reelection-another-misinformation-campaign-idUSKBN20F27S | 2020-02-22 |
| Feb 21 Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | Negative | Feb 21 Twitter Inc on Friday said it had started suspending and restricting dozens of accounts posting content promoting U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-bloomberg-twitter/twitter-suspends-group-of-pro-bloomberg-accounts-over-platform-manipulation-idUSL2N2AM00B | 2020-02-22 |
| In a post on its Twitter account early on Friday Notimex refused to recognize the strike arguing that a notary did not formally certify it | Negative | MEXICO CITY Dozens of employees of Mexicos state news agency Notimex launched a strike on Friday as the union battled deep spending cuts by the outlets director a close ally of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-notimex/workers-strike-at-mexican-state-news-agency-in-austerity-fight-idUSKBN20F2DT | 2020-02-22 |
| Twitter users would earn points and badges for rating harmfully content | Positive | NBC News earlier reported that Twitter company documents showing a mockup of the new approach were accessible on a publicly available website although it did not identify the site | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-tests-labels-community-moderation-for-lies-by-public-figures-idUSKBN20E2UR | 2020-02-21 |
| Twitter and other social media companies are under intense pressure to stem lies and misinformation on their platforms | Negative | NBC News earlier reported that Twitter company documents showing a mockup of the new approach were accessible on a publicly available website although it did not identify the site | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-tests-labels-community-moderation-for-lies-by-public-figures-idUSKBN20E2UR | 2020-02-21 |
| Public Twitter messages referenced in the court filings indicate Amanda Macias a national security reporter for CNBC was one of the journalists | Neutral | WASHINGTON A U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency counterterrorism analyst pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign countrys weapons system to two journalists in 2018 and 2019 the U.S. Justice Department said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-leak/u-s-counterterrorism-analyst-pleads-guilty-to-media-leaks-idUSKBN20E30U | 2020-02-21 |
| Feb 20 Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it was testing adding brightly colored labels underneath tweets posted by politicians and public figures that contain lies and misinformation | Negative | Feb 20 Twitter Inc said on Thursday that it was testing adding brightly colored labels underneath tweets posted by politicians and public figures that contain lies and misinformation | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-security/twitter-tests-placing-bright-labels-to-indicate-lies-by-public-figures-idUSL8N2AK8CP | 2020-02-21 |
| Her deputy Olaf Scholz took to Twitter to Politically nobody can deny that 75 years after the Nazi dictatorship there is real terror | Negative | HANAU Germany A man suspected of shooting dead nine people in shisha bars in a German town before killing himself and his mother had posted a manifesto online including conspiracy theories and deeply racist views prosecutors said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-germany-shooting/suspected-shisha-bar-gunman-published-racist-manifesto-german-prosecutor-idUSKBN20D2VG | 2020-02-21 |
| NBC News earlier reported that Twitter company documents showing a mockup of the new approach were accessible on a publicly available website although it did not identify the site | Positive | NBC News earlier reported that Twitter company documents showing a mockup of the new approach were accessible on a publicly available website although it did not identify the site | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-tests-labels-community-moderation-for-lies-by-public-figures-idUSKBN20E2UR | 2020-02-21 |
| Trump has used Twitter to attack the four prosecutors who had argued the Stone case as well as the judge presiding over it | Negative | U.S. Attorney General William Barr is considering resigning over President Donald Trumps tweets about Justice Department investigations a source familiar with the situation told Reuters while the department said he was not leaving | http://www.reuters.com/legal/article/us-usa-trump-barr/u-s-attorney-general-barr-considers-quitting-over-trump-tweets-source-idUSKBN20C2EZ | 2020-02-20 |
| The president also took to Twitter on Tuesday to question state officials handling of the case calling for an forensic investigation | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his son on Tuesday hurled criticism at state authorities investigating the death of an alleged hit man who was suspected of involvement in the murder of a wellknown Rio de | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-politics/bolsonaro-and-son-blast-probe-of-brazil-hit-man-killed-by-police-idUSKBN20C2PW | 2020-02-19 |
| Since then Trump has used Twitter to attack the four prosecutors as well as Jackson who previously oversaw cases involving Trumps other political allies including Manafort | Neutral | WASHINGTON Roger Stone a longtime friend of President Donald Trump on Tuesday lost his bid to delay his sentencing amid speculation that Trump might pardon him | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/stone-sentencing-to-go-ahead-amid-pardon-speculation-idUSKBN20C254 | 2020-02-19 |
| Trump has used Twitter to attack the four prosecutors who had argued the case as well as the judge presiding over it | Negative | U.S. Attorney General William Barr is considering resigning over President Donald Trumps tweets about Justice Department investigations a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-barr/attorney-general-barr-considering-quitting-over-trump-tweets-source-idUSKBN20C2EZ | 2020-02-19 |
| Asked about the presidents criticism of him on Twitter Bolton He tweets but I cant talk about it | Neutral | WASHINGTON John Bolton the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump raised concern on Monday about his unpublished book being by the White House and suggested he should be able to respond to the presidents tweets about him | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-bolton/bolton-says-he-hopes-book-is-not-suppressed-by-white-house-idUSKBN20C07S | 2020-02-18 |
| Writing on Twitter parliamentarian Fouad Makhzoumi said the move put the Lebanese under effective house and must be canceled | Neutral | BEIRUT Lebanons stateowned carrier Middle East Airlines reversed a decision to accept payment only in U.S. dollars after a backlash on Sunday Lebanese media and an MEA source said | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-airline/lebanons-mea-reverses-move-to-charge-in-dollars-idUSKBN20A0BV | 2020-02-17 |
| Earlier this month some of Facebooks official Twitter accounts were briefly compromised | Neutral | The accounts were hacked through a thirdparty platform a spokesperson for the social media platform said in an emailed statement without giving further details | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-olympics/twitter-says-olympics-ioc-accounts-hacked-idUSKBN2090SA | 2020-02-16 |
| Like Barr Trumps Republican allies in Congress have said they wish he would be less outspoken on Twitter even as they have consistently defended his actions | Positive | WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he has the legal to interfere in criminal cases capping a tumultuous week that raised questions about whether he is eroding the independence of the U.S. legal system | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump/emboldened-trump-defends-right-to-interfere-in-criminal-cases-idUSKBN20823A | 2020-02-15 |
| Trump has weighed in on Twitter all week with comments that have aroused concerns his administration is weakening the rule of law | Negative | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Thursday that President Donald Trumps attacks on prosecutors the judge and jurors in the trial of a longtime adviser undermined the Justice Departments work adding he would not be by anyone | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/barr-wont-be-bullied-by-trump-on-stone-case-jurors-appalled-idUSKBN20727X | 2020-02-15 |
| WHO Egypt said on Twitter the person was carrying the virus but had not shown any symptoms and was in a stable condition | Positive | CAIRO Egypt confirmed on Friday its first coronavirus case and said the affected person was a foreigner who had been put into isolation in hospital | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-egypt/egypt-confirms-first-coronavirus-case-says-affected-person-is-a-foreigner-idUSKBN20826K | 2020-02-15 |
| The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Twitter for its refusal to put its server holding data about Russian citizens on Russian territory | Negative | The Tagansky District Court in Moscow fined Twitter for its refusal to put its server holding data about Russian citizens on Russian territory | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-russia-twitter-fine/russian-court-fines-twitter-63000-over-data-law-ria-idUSKBN2071IR | 2020-02-14 |
| The Instagram posts included disclaimers but their satirical nature left some Twitter users wondering if the partnerships were real | Negative | U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloombergs campaign is paying popular Instagram meme accounts to post content about the billionaire as part of its social media offensive ahead of the 2020 election | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-bloomberg-meme/bloomberg-campaign-pays-social-media-accounts-for-memes-idUSKBN2072S9 | 2020-02-14 |
| He wrote on Twitter that he hoped the court would take the jury allegations seriously if the report was accurate calling it not fair | Neutral | WASHINGTON U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Thursday pushed back against Donald Trump after the presidents attacks on the prosecutors judge and jury in the trial of a longtime adviser saying Trump should stop tweeting about Justice Department cases and that he would not be by anyone | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-trump-russia-stone/barr-tells-trump-to-stop-tweeting-about-stone-case-juror-calls-it-appalling-idUSKBN20727X | 2020-02-14 |
| LONDON Britain said it would force social media companies such as Facebook Twitter and Snap to do more to block or remove harmful content on their platforms | Negative | LONDON Britain said it would force social media companies such as Facebook Twitter and Snap to do more to block or remove harmful content on their platforms | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-tech-regulation/britain-to-make-social-media-platforms-responsible-for-harmful-content-idUSKBN2060Q7 | 2020-02-13 |
| Out of respect to you and your family this is the only way I want to remember one user wrote on Twitter where and were trending topics | Positive | MEXICO CITY The gruesome murder of a 25yearold woman in Mexicos capital has unleashed outrage among authorities and rights groups after leaked photos of her mutilated body appeared on the front page of a newspaper | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-violence-gender/mexico-city-killing-sparks-fury-over-violence-against-women-idUSKBN2060CY | 2020-02-12 |
| A passenger with the Twitter handle posted an audio clip of the captain announcing the discovery of 66 new cases | Neutral | TOKYO Testing aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan has revealed 60 more confirmed cases of coronavirus media said on Monday as quarantined passengers took to social media to warn of depression setting in over their confinement | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-china-health-japan/sixty-more-people-confirmed-with-coronavirus-on-cruise-ship-in-japan-media-idUSKBN2040FG | 2020-02-11 |
| Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin on Twitter confirmed that the United States embassy in Manila had received notice | Negative | MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given formal notice to the United States of his decision to scrap a bilateral Visiting Forces Agreement officials said on Tuesday following through on repeated threat to downgrade the defense alliance | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-philippined-usa-defence/philippine-leader-terminates-troop-agreement-with-u-s-idUSKBN2050E9 | 2020-02-11 |
| Passengers have taken to Twitter to express their frustration with the voyage to nowhere after days at sea with no opportunity to get off | Negative | Thailand has barred passengers from Holland Americas cruise ship MS Westerdam from disembarking its health minister said on Tuesday the latest country to turn it away amid fears of the coronavirus despite no confirmed infections on board | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-thailand-cruiseship/thailand-refuses-entry-to-cruise-ship-with-no-coronavirus-cases-idUSKBN20503T | 2020-02-11 |
| Hashtags Parasite and DirectorBongJoonho were the most trending on Twitter South Korea while the movie name was the most searched on the local Naver web portal after the wins | Positive | SEOUL South Korean social media erupted in celebration on Monday after the dark comedy became the first nonEnglish language movie to win the Best Picture award already having netted three other Oscars in a historic first for the country | http://www.reuters.com/news/entertainmenthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-oscars-southkorea-parasite/south-koreans-celebrate-as-parasite-snags-historic-wins-at-oscars-idUSKBN20409L | 2020-02-10 |
| A Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the accounts were hacked through a thirdparty platform | Negative | Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its Messenger platform were hacked | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-cyber/twitter-says-facebook-messenger-accounts-hacked-idUSKBN20201H | 2020-02-08 |
| Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its Messenger platform were hacked | Negative | Twitter confirmed on Friday that the official Twitter accounts of social media giant Facebook Inc and its Messenger platform were hacked | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-facebook-cyber/twitter-says-facebook-messenger-accounts-hacked-idUSKBN20201H | 2020-02-08 |
| Twitter said on Friday it had nothing to add to its previous statement | Neutral | MADRID Spains ultraconservative Vox party has filed a criminal complaint in a Spanish court against Twitter alleging the social media company violated its basic rights by blocking it from tweeting Vox said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-spain-farright-twitter/spains-far-right-vox-party-takes-twitter-to-court-over-tweet-ban-idUSKBN20125P | 2020-02-08 |
| Twitter Inc pulled in billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more userfriendly brought in more people and sending its shares up in early trading | Positive | Twitter Inc pulled in billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more userfriendly brought in more people and sending its shares up in early trading | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-notches-first-1-billion-quarterly-revenue-beating-estimates-shares-jump-idUSKBN2001N0 | 2020-02-07 |
| Twitter has also focused on relevant content and notifications which has boosted average monetisable daily active users or users who see ads when logged in | Positive | Twitter Inc pulled in billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more userfriendly brought in more people and sending its shares up in early trading | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-notches-first-1-billion-quarterly-revenue-beating-estimates-shares-jump-idUSKBN2001N0 | 2020-02-07 |
| Twitters total U.S. revenue rose to million compared with a uptick in international revenue | Positive | Twitter Inc pulled in billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more userfriendly brought in more people and sending its shares up in early trading | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-notches-first-1-billion-quarterly-revenue-beating-estimates-shares-jump-idUSKBN2001N0 | 2020-02-07 |
| In November Twitter banned political ads amid growing pressure on social media companies to stop accepting commercials containing misleading or false information | Negative | Twitter Inc pulled in billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more userfriendly brought in more people and sending its shares up in early trading | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-notches-first-1-billion-quarterly-revenue-beating-estimates-shares-jump-idUSKBN2001N0 | 2020-02-07 |
| On Tuesday Twitter said it would apply warning labels to tweets containing synthetic or deceptively edited forms of media and remove such media if it is likely to cause harm | Negative | Twitter Inc pulled in billion in quarterly revenue for the first time on Thursday beating expectations as efforts to make its platform more userfriendly brought in more people and sending its shares up in early trading | http://www.reuters.com/news/technology/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-notches-first-1-billion-quarterly-revenue-beating-estimates-shares-jump-idUSKBN2001N0 | 2020-02-07 |
| A company spokeswoman declined to say how many user phone numbers had been exposed saying Twitter was unable to identify all of the accounts that may have been impacted | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the companys contacts feature | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-says-state-backed-actors-may-have-accessed-users-phone-numbers-idUSKBN1ZY07G | 2020-02-04 |
| She said Twitter suspected a possible connection to statebacked actors because the attackers in Iran appeared to have had unrestricted access to Twitter even though the network is banned there | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the companys contacts feature | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-says-state-backed-actors-may-have-accessed-users-phone-numbers-idUSKBN1ZY07G | 2020-02-04 |
| Spains Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos who had made his way to the airport in the capital took to Twitter to congratulate the pilot and crew for their expertise | Positive | MADRID An Air Canada Boeing 767 with 128 passengers and eight crew returned safely to Madrids Barajas airport on Monday after reporting an engine issue and a burst tyre on takeoff that forced it to circle for hours to burn fuel before landing | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-spain-airport-emergency-landing/air-canada-boeing-767-returns-safely-to-madrid-after-engine-issue-idUSKBN1ZX23S | 2020-02-04 |
| Twitters policy says that users are not allowed to post or share false or misleading information intended to intimidate or dissuade voters from participating in an election | Negative | A viral claim by a conservative activist group that voter registration numbers in Iowa are suspiciously large ahead of the first U.S. presidential nominating contest on Monday is false a senior state government official said and called on the group to end its misinformation campaign | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-iowa-misinformation/iowa-official-slams-viral-claim-of-suspicious-voter-registration-activity-as-false-idUSKBN1ZY03J | 2020-02-04 |
| Twitter Inc banned political ads in November including those that reference a political candidate party election or legislation in a push to ensure transparency | Negative | Feb 3 Alphabet Incs YouTube on Monday reinforced its guidelines on tackling fake or misleading electionrelated content on its platform as the United States gears up for the presidential election later this year | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/alphabet-election/youtube-reinforces-guidelines-on-fighting-misleading-election-content-idUSL4N2A3387 | 2020-02-04 |
| SAN FRANCISCO Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the companys contacts feature | Negative | SAN FRANCISCO Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the companys contacts feature | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-security/twitter-says-state-backed-actors-may-have-accessed-users-phone-numbers-idUSKBN1ZY07G | 2020-02-04 |
| Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fastspreading coronavirus last week | Negative | Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fastspreading coronavirus last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-twitter/financial-market-website-zero-hedge-knocked-off-twitter-over-coronavirus-story-idUSKBN1ZW0PZ | 2020-02-03 |
| Twitter confirmed to Reuters on Sunday Zero Hedges account on its platform had been permanently suspended for violating platform manipulation | Negative | Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fastspreading coronavirus last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-twitter/financial-market-website-zero-hedge-knocked-off-twitter-over-coronavirus-story-idUSKBN1ZW0PZ | 2020-02-03 |
| Social media companies including Twitter and Facebook have pledged to take down accounts that spread misinformation about the virus | Positive | Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fastspreading coronavirus last week | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-twitter/financial-market-website-zero-hedge-knocked-off-twitter-over-coronavirus-story-idUSKBN1ZW0PZ | 2020-02-03 |
| Michoacans state security services without giving names said on Twitter that three people have been detained | Negative | MEXICO CITY Armed men blocked roads burned cars and there were reports of shootouts in the city of Uruapan in western Mexico after a senior leader of the Los Viagras cartel was detained local media and a source from the prosecutors office said | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-crime/firefights-blocked-roads-in-mexican-city-after-senior-cartel-leader-detained-idUSKBN1ZU30H | 2020-02-01 |
| The South Korean government has warned it would sternly respond to any fake about the disease and distributed infographics on Twitter on Friday to dispel some unverified rumors | Negative | South Korea Hundreds of South Koreans flown home on a charter flight from China were greeted with welcome signs on Friday as they arrived at quarantine centers where nearby residents had staged vehement protests only a day before | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-southkorea/no-protest-as-south-korean-evacuees-from-wuhan-arrive-at-quarantine-centers-idUSKBN1ZT39V | 2020-01-31 |
| Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to express opposition | Negative | WASHINGTON The U.S. House of Representatives passed two pieces of legislation on Thursday seeking to rein in President Donald Trumps ability to deploy U.S. forces to fight abroad as some lawmakers fume over his failure to fully inform them about his strategy toward Iran | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/aerospace-and-defense/article/us-mideast-crisis-congress-iran/u-s-house-passes-measures-seeking-to-pull-war-powers-back-from-trump-idUSKBN1ZT2SD | 2020-01-31 |
| Maezawa has pledged to give away million to his Twitter followers in what he says is a social to see if the payment boosts their happiness | Positive | TOKYO Japanese fashion billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has pulled out of a documentary search for a girlfriend to take on his voyage around the moon with Elon Musks SpaceX citing his mixed about participating | http://www.reuters.com/places/japan/article/us-japan-billionare-maezawa/japanese-billionaire-maezawa-pulls-out-of-dating-show-that-promised-the-moon-idUSKBN1ZT0AD | 2020-01-30 |
| Indonesia one of the top five markets globally for U.S. tech giants Facebook and Twitter currently has weak rules on personal data protection | Negative | JAKARTA Indonesias government has submitted a bill to parliament aimed at protecting consumer data in the digital era which includes punishment of up to seven years in jail for distribution of personal data without consent a minister said on Tuesday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-data/indonesia-to-step-up-data-protection-with-new-bill-amid-booming-digital-economy-idUSKBN1ZR1NL | 2020-01-29 |
| Twitter Inc said on Monday accounts of several National Football League teams including the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs were hacked ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday | Negative | Twitter Inc said on Monday accounts of several National Football League teams including the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs were hacked ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-nfl/twitter-says-several-nfl-teams-accounts-hacked-idUSKBN1ZQ2JW | 2020-01-28 |
| On Saturday Bryant used Twitter to extend his congratulations to Much respect my he tweeted | Positive | Kobe Bryant widely considered one of the greatest players in basketball was killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-basketball-bryant-obituary/obituary-bryant-widely-considered-one-of-basketballs-greatest-idUSKBN1ZP0RO | 2020-01-27 |
| News of the press conference was trending on Weibo Chinas equivalent to Twitter with the hashtag Governor of Hubei says he is agonized and feels responsible | Negative | SHANGHAI In a rare sign of public discontent with the government Chinese social media users are venting their anger at the government after officials from Hubei province where the coronavirus outbreak began briefed the media on Sunday | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-governor/chinese-provincial-press-conference-on-coronavirus-inspires-anger-criticism-idUSKBN1ZP0RU | 2020-01-27 |
| Americans should turn on their televisions he wrote on Twitter and watch the attorneys make our case his political antagonists who he listed with a series of taunting nicknames | Negative | WASHINGTON Just before his lawyers stepped into the U.S. Senate to begin their argument that he should not be removed from office President Donald Trump offered a preview of sorts | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-defense-analysi/trump-lawyers-offer-surprisingly-un-trumpy-defense-to-impeachment-idUSKBN1ZP0E0 | 2020-01-27 |
| Schiff wrote on Twitter that the defense was trying to deflect from discussing what witnesses have described as Trumps pressure campaign against Ukraine | Negative | WASHINGTON Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump told his Senate impeachment trial on Saturday that Democrats efforts to remove the president from office would set a very very precedent in an election year | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment/defense-at-senate-trial-says-ousting-trump-would-be-massive-interference-in-election-idUSKBN1ZO0E8 | 2020-01-26 |
| After Lebanons Internal Security Forces used Twitter to warn peaceful demonstrators to leave for their own safety riot police fanned out to disperse dozens of remaining protesters | Negative | BEIRUT Lebanese security forces on Saturday fired water cannons and tear gas at antigovernment protesters trying to breach a security barricade outside government headquarters in central Beirut | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-protests/lebanese-security-fire-water-cannons-at-protesters-idUSKBN1ZO0R2 | 2020-01-26 |
| Iraqi President Barham Salih posted a photo of Fridays march on Twitter and wrote that Iraqis deserved a fully sovereign state that serves its | Positive | BAGHDAD Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Baghdad on Friday calling for the expulsion of U.S. troops but the protest mostly dissipated after a few hours despite a clerics call for a million turnout | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-sadr/no-no-america-iraq-protesters-demand-expulsion-of-u-s-troops-idUSKBN1ZN0RI | 2020-01-25 |
| Seattle police said on Twitter that detectives were investigating after six people were wounded by gunfire one | Negative | At least one person was killed and five others wounded in a shooting during the evening rushhour at a Seattle shopping district on Thursday and the suspects remained at large police said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-seattle-shooting/one-dead-in-seattle-shooting-five-wounded-idUSKBN1ZM0AO | 2020-01-23 |
| My mom is in D.C. today so Ill be taking over her Twitter account as I travel across Klobuchars daughter said | Neutral | WASHINGTON Some members of the U.S. Senate hearing President Donald Trumps impeachment trial a proceeding following decadesold precedent said they welcomed at least one of the chambers anachronistic a ban on cellphones | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-scene/u-s-senators-on-digital-detox-as-they-hear-trumps-impeachment-trial-idUSKBN1ZM01G | 2020-01-23 |
| While many viewers did not approve of the ad some took to Twitter to label the ad and said there was no need for the company to apologize | Negative | KFC on Tuesday apologized for an advertisement in Australia that shows two boys ogling a womans breasts after calls from a local campaign group to boycott the fastfood giant over the ad it called | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-kfc-australia-advertisement/kfc-apologizes-for-sexist-australian-ad-idUSKBN1ZK0WU | 2020-01-22 |
| In an earlier post on Twitter Guaido said he was grateful for Duques support and said the trip would generate the conditions that will lead us to freedom | Positive | Senior figures in Venezeulas opposition hope that Gauido will also get to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at Davos the newspaper said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuelas-guaido-defies-ban-to-arrive-in-bogota-due-to-meet-pompeo-on-monday-idUSKBN1ZI0IW | 2020-01-20 |
| U.S. President Donald Trump hit back later on Twitter writing that Khamenei should be careful what he says | Negative | DUBAI Irans supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of street protests | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-khamenei/irans-khamenei-stands-by-guards-after-unrest-over-downed-plane-idUSKBN1ZG0O8 | 2020-01-19 |
| Writing on his Twitter account Ernesto said Brazil was also pulling out because the organization known as CELAC had become a for authoritarian states citing Venezuela Cuba and Nicaragua | Negative | RIO DE JANEIRO Brazil has decided to suspend its participation in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States a leftist regional body established by Venezuela due to its failure to protect democracy Brazils foreign minister said on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-brazil-diplomacy-celac/brazil-sits-out-leftist-latin-american-nations-body-on-anti-democracy-fears-idUSKBN1ZF2U9 | 2020-01-17 |
| Hyde denied wrongdoing saying on Twitter he had never been in Kiev | Negative | WASHINGTON A top Democrat in Congress vowed on Wednesday to investigate profoundly messages suggesting that the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was subject to surveillance before President Donald Trump fired her in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-threat/trump-impeachment-was-someone-tracking-the-u-s-ambassador-in-kiev-idUSKBN1ZE2RV | 2020-01-16 |
| The chairman of the Connecticut Republican party said on Twitter on Wednesday that he had asked Hyde to end his bid for Congress | Positive | WASHINGTON A top Democrat in Congress vowed on Wednesday to investigate profoundly messages suggesting that the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine was subject to surveillance before President Donald Trump fired her in May | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-threat/trump-impeachment-was-someone-tracking-the-u-s-ambassador-in-kiev-idUSKBN1ZE2RV | 2020-01-16 |
| Earlier Ebrard said on Twitter that Mexico and Guatemala will hold bilateral talks on migration once the new Guatemalan government has become familiar with the situation | Positive | GUATEMALA Guatemalas new president on Wednesday faced an early test of his ability to manage migration as a caravan of hundreds of people left Honduras for the United States and said Mexico would halt its progress | http://www.reuters.com/places/russia/article/us-usa-immigration-honduras-guatemala/guatemalan-leader-says-mexico-plans-to-contain-new-caravan-idUSKBN1ZE2GX | 2020-01-16 |
| The mayor of Cudahy Elizabeth Alcantar said on Twitter the city had opened an emergency response center following the incident and would conduct a meeting to provide more information | Negative | LOS ANGELES A Delta Airlines jet making an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport dumped fuel on the playground of an elementary school in the flight path on Tuesday inflicting minor injuries on 17 children and nine adults local and federal authorities said | http://www.reuters.com/news/ushttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-airplane-school/delta-flight-dumps-fuel-on-l-a-school-26-treated-for-minor-injuries-idUSKBN1ZD2OP | 2020-01-15 |
| That prompted some Twitter users to revive the hashtag that exploded in 2015 | Positive | Hollywoods Oscar voters passed over big names including Jennifer Lopez Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro on Monday while issuing a surprise first Academy Award nomination to actor Antonio Banderas for Spanish film Pain and Glory | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-awards-oscars-nominations-surprises/oscar-voters-pass-over-big-names-including-eddie-murphy-jlo-idUSKBN1ZC203 | 2020-01-14 |
| Writing on Twitter Zelenskiy said Rouhani had apologized to him on behalf of his country | Neutral | DUBAI Iran said on Saturday its military had shot down a Ukrainian plane killing all 176 aboard in a disastrous saying air defenses were fired in error while on alert after Iranian missile strikes on U.S. targets in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash/disastrous-mistake-iran-acknowledges-shooting-down-ukrainian-airliner-idUSKCN1ZA04Y | 2020-01-12 |
| WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Twitter that his administration is closely following protests that erupted in Iran after that countrys government admitted its forces shot down a civilian Ukrainian airliner by mistake | Negative | WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said on Twitter that his administration is closely following protests that erupted in Iran after that countrys government admitted its forces shot down a civilian Ukrainian airliner by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-crash-protests-trump/trump-says-watching-iran-protests-closely-is-inspired-by-iranians-courage-idUSKBN1ZA0WU | 2020-01-12 |
| On Twitter videos showed protesters demanding that Khamenei step down because of the disaster | Negative | DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/protests-and-condemnation-after-iran-admits-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-12 |
| The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous Rouhani wrote on Twitter promising that those responsible would be prosecuted | Negative | DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/protests-and-condemnation-after-iran-admits-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-12 |
| In Twitter messages angry Iranians asked why the plane was allowed to take off with tensions in Iran so high | Negative | DUBAI Irans admission that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner killing all 176 aboard has provoked international outrage and triggered protests against Iranian authorities in Tehran and other cities including one in which Britains ambassador was detained | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iran-crash/protests-and-condemnation-after-iran-admits-downing-ukrainian-plane-idUSKBN1ZA0X6 | 2020-01-12 |
| Foreign Minister FrancoisPhilippe Champagne said on Twitter that Iran had granted two visas so far to Canadian officials | Positive | EDMONTON Friends and families of some of the 63 Canadians killed in a Ukrainian plane crash in Iran are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to take a tougher stance after Ottawa accused Iran of having downed the plane albeit probably by mistake | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-iran-crash-canada/no-more-teary-eyes-from-trudeau-iranian-canadians-demand-action-on-crash-idUSKBN1Z927S | 2020-01-11 |
| Twitter did not respond to requests for comment on why the accounts had been suspended | Negative | CARACAS Jan 8 Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-politics-twitter/twitter-suspends-over-a-dozen-venezuelan-government-military-accounts-idUSL1N29D1DM | 2020-01-09 |
| CARACAS Jan 8 Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | Negative | CARACAS Jan 8 Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/venezuela-politics-twitter/twitter-suspends-over-a-dozen-venezuelan-government-military-accounts-idUSL1N29D1DM | 2020-01-09 |
| Soon after Wednesdays attacks Trump had said on Twitter that All is and Washington was assessing damage | Negative | President Donald Trump on Wednesday tempered days of angry rhetoric and suggested Iran was standing after it fired missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq as both sides looked to defuse a crisis over the U.S. killing of an Iranian general | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/u-s-iran-both-appear-to-signal-desire-to-avoid-further-conflict-idUSKBN1Z60NL | 2020-01-09 |
| CARACAS Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | Negative | CARACAS Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-twitter/twitter-suspends-over-a-dozen-venezuelan-government-military-accounts-idUSKBN1Z72SG | 2020-01-09 |
| Twitter in a statement Wednesday said the service has proactive which aim to detect platform but that such systems can commit errors which account owners are welcome to appeal | Positive | CARACAS Twitter Inc has suspended more than a dozen accounts associated with Venezuelas government and military including the OPEC nations oil ministry and the armed forces operational command | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-twitter/twitter-suspends-over-a-dozen-venezuelan-government-military-accounts-idUSKBN1Z72SG | 2020-01-09 |
| Republican U.S. Senator Marco Rubio called for unity saying in a Twitter post that Iran wanted Americans to turn against one another | Negative | WASHINGTON Democrats in the U.S. Congress and some of the partys presidential contenders warned on Tuesday about escalating conflict in the Middle East after Iran launched a retaliatory missile strike against U.S. forces in Iraq | http://www.reuters.com/politicshttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-attack-congress/world-cannot-afford-war-u-s-democrats-respond-to-iran-missile-strike-idUSKBN1Z7095 | 2020-01-08 |
| Trump also took to Twitter to reiterate the White House stance that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon | Negative | The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday following reports by Reuters and other media of an American military letter informing Iraqi officials about repositioning troops in preparation for leaving the country | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/pentagon-chief-denies-u-s-is-leaving-iraq-slain-commander-mourned-by-tehran-throngs-idUSKBN1Z50KU | 2020-01-07 |
| A State Department official wrote via Twitter that the United States would continue to back Guaido as the countrys legitimate leader | Positive | CARACAS Venezuelas government on Sunday used troops to block lawmakers from reelecting opposition leader Juan Guaido as congress chief allowing the ruling Socialist Party to hand the post to a lawmaker recently expelled from the opposition | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-venezuela-politics/venezuela-socialists-snatch-congress-from-guaido-opposition-denounces-coup-idUSKBN1Z40J4 | 2020-01-06 |
| The governor of Oaxaca Alejandro Murat said on Twitter that security protocols have been activated following the quake | Neutral | MEXICO CITY A strong earthquake struck the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca late on Saturday near to the Pacific coastline and the neighboring state of Chiapas prompting security protocols to be activated | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-mexico-quake/quake-rattles-southern-mexican-state-of-oaxaca-no-damages-idUSKBN1Z403X | 2020-01-05 |
| Democratic Representative Alexandria OcasioCortez a strident Trump critic wrote on Twitter that his threat to hit Iranian sites is a war crime | Negative | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites very if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets after a drone strike that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani and an Iraqi militia leader as tens of thousands of people marched in Iraq to mourn their deaths | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security/trump-vows-to-hit-52-iranian-targets-if-iran-retaliates-after-drone-strike-idUSKBN1Z4003 | 2020-01-05 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 3 Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to assassinate top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | Negative | WASHINGTON Jan 3 Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to assassinate top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-blast-target/assassinated-iranian-commander-soleimani-in-pompeos-sights-for-years-idUSL1N2980R2 | 2020-01-04 |
| WASHINGTON Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | Negative | WASHINGTON Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-target/iranian-commander-soleimani-had-been-in-pompeos-sights-for-years-idUSKBN1Z21UT | 2020-01-04 |
| WASHINGTON Jan 3 Long before U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo went on television and Twitter on Friday to make the case for the U.S. decision to kill top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani he had the powerful military commander squarely in his sights | Negative | By David Brunnstrom and Daphne Psaledakis | http://www.reuters.com/news/mediahttps://www.reuters.com/article/iraq-security-blast-target/update-1-iranian-commander-soleimani-had-been-in-pompeos-sights-for-years-idUSL1N2981GH | 2020-01-04 |
| On Twitter he said the assassination of Soleimani was an extremely dangerous and foolish escalation | Negative | Here are some reactions to the killing of Iranian MajorGeneral Qassem Soleimani head of the elite Quds Force in a U.S. air strike on his convoy at Baghdad airport | http://www.reuters.com/subjects/middle-easthttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-reaction-factbox/reactions-to-the-killing-of-iranian-general-in-a-u-s-air-strike-idUSKBN1Z2070 | 2020-01-03 |
| Pompeo said on Twitter that Abdul Mahdi had agreed that Iraq would continue to uphold its responsibility to keep U.S. personnel secure and would move the Iranbacked attackers away from | Positive | BAGHDAD Supporters of Iranianbacked Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S. Embassys perimeter and hurled rocks in two days of protests withdrew on Wednesday after Washington dispatched extra troops and threatened reprisals against Tehran | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-iraq-security-usa/rock-throwing-iraqi-militias-quit-u-s-embassy-after-protests-idUSKBN1Z01N9 | 2020-01-02 |
| Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu quickly took to Twitter to denounce it | Negative | BEIJING With just days to go before Taiwans elections its giant neighbor is trying a pushandpull strategy on the island Beijing claims as Chinese territory rattling its saber while trying to coax electors with outwardly friendlier policies | http://www.reuters.com/places/chinahttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-election-china/china-rattles-saber-and-offers-friendship-days-before-taiwans-elections-idUSKBN1YZ05Q | 2020-01-01 |
