The backlash against big tech's ideological blind spot comes less than a week after Trump signed an executive order escalating his war with social media companies over how they monitor content
Trump last week signed an executive order in a bid to strip social media platforms of some of the legal protections that they enjoy
Kapoor does not have an official social media account. However, his character in the film, Bunny, has sent Twitterverse into a state of excitement
Experts said the impact of face-off between Trump and Twitter' will not be felt in the US for now unless the Federal Communications Commission issues some regulations
The feud can have implications for freedom of speech
The US executive order gives regulators the power to take action against online platforms that are seen as censoring free speech
When the looting starts, the shooting starts, Trump had written in a tweet that was quickly flagged by Twitter as violating rules against glorifying violence
Twitter flagged the tweet, which is now only visible if one clicks on Twitter's flag.
The order comes two days after Twitter labelled two of Trump's tweets as potentially misleading
According to media reports, the warning labels were added to tweets from spokesman Lijian Zhao, one of which read: "It might be the US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan"
In a ruling on Wednesday, the US appeals court in Washington, DC dismissed the lawsuit and said that the First Amendment rights regulate the government, not the private sector
Twitter Safety said that action against Trump's tweets about California's vote-by-mail plans is part of efforts to enforce the civic integrity policy
Trump's latest dispute with social media emerged after Twitter on Tuesday for the first time attached a warning to some of his tweets prompting readers to fact check the president's claims
In a pair of tweets issued Wednesday morning from his iPhone, Trump said that social media sites are trying to silence conservative voices, and need to change course or face action.
Twitter's decision is likely to raise further questions about its willingness to consistently apply the label to other Trump's tweets
The micro-blogging platform on May 12 had rolled out this feature on Twitter for iOS
The feature is currently being tested only with a limited group of people globally on Twitter for iOS, Android, and twitter.com
The BotSight annotates each Twitter handle with a bot-probability score directly on the Twitter website
Google and Facebook told employees that many workers who can do their jobs remotely should plan to do so until 2021
Internet observatory named the Downdetector showed a live outage in Pakistan