26.08.2015 - 23:41 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Twitter Axes Accountability Projects, Sparing Politicians Embarrassment

Accountability projects that track deleted tweets from politicians and public officials suffered a critical setback this week when Twitter killed their ability to collect that information. This move comes a few months after the service shut down the U.S. version of Politwoops, the best known of these projects, and extends the ban to some 30 other jurisdictions.