Communications Major

Twitter’s first three months under the empire of Elon Musk. Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive billionaires who wanted to use it for their own ends — then one made himself the CEO

Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday locked the accounts of President Trump, which prevents him from posting messages to his more than 88 million followers on Twitter and 35 million followers on Facebook, after he published a string of inaccurate and inflammatory messages on a day of violence in the nation’s capital.

The moves were an unprecedented rebuke of Mr. Trump by the social media companies, which have long been megaphones for the president.

The reckoning has come.

Likes and shares made the social media site what it is. Now, company documents show, it’s struggling to deal with their effects.

A petition launched by billionaire Democratic donor Tom Steyer calling for President Trump's impeachment has surpassed 1 million signatures.