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Taylor Swift watched the Kansas City Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday. At one point she ate a snack and unknowingly set a meme in motion.

The journey of 'seemingly ranch,' from meme to top of the Empire State Building

Heinz and Primal Kitchen are selling limited-edition bottles of "Seemingly Ranch" dressing. The Empire State Building lit up in red and white. It all started, as so many trends do, with Taylor Swift.

NFL Player Laremy Tunsil Loses Millions In Draft After Twitter Hack

Last night before and during the NFL Draft, the Twitter and Instagram accounts of Laremy Tunsil, one of the draft's top prospects, were hacked and used to tweet a damaging video and screenshots.

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, shown here in 2020, has purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter.

Elon Musk just became Twitter's largest shareholder

The ultimate aim of Musk's $2.9 billion share purchase is not clear. Yet in recent weeks Musk has questioned free speech on Twitter and whether the platform is undermining democracy.

Twitter will stop running political ads, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday. Online political ads pose "significant risks to politics," he tweeted.

Twitter To Halt Political Ads, In Contrast To Facebook

CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will stop running political ads, citing online ads' "significant risks to politics." Facebook has been criticized for allowing deceptive political ads.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative writer and Internet personality, holds a news conference down the street from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., last month.

Twitter Permanently Suspends Conservative Writer For Targeted Abuse

The suspension of Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos comes amid a recent campaign in which users tweeted hundreds of racist and abusive messages at Ghostbusters actress Leslie Jones.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Jan. 8. A Twitter account believed to be linked to Khamenei was permanently banned Friday after posting a threatening image involving former President Donald Trump. Twitter told The Associated Press the account was a fake.

Twitter Bans Account Linked To Iran's Supreme Leader

An image that seems to threaten former President Donald Trump has prompted Twitter to deactivate an account linked to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The image also appears on Khameini's website.

Debate rages about the Federal Communications Commission's proposed net neutrality guidelines.

Tech Week: Egg Innovation, Twitter's Future, The FCC's Defense

This week's technology news included Facebook's new anonymous logins, Twitter's latest earnings, the golden egg innovation and other headlines we don't want you to miss.

Though Twitter has temporarily suspended its new subscription service, experts say the damage to public trust in the platform may already be done.

Misinformation threatens Twitter's function as a public safety tool

Can people in dangerous situations still rely on Twitter for crucial updates and safety information?

With a poster of a <em>New York Post</em> front page story about Hunter Biden's emails on display, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) listen during a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Feb. 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. The committee held a hearing on Twitter's short-lived decision to limit circulation of the <em>Post </em>story in 2020.

Ex-Twitter officials reject GOP claims of government collusion

At a contentious House committee hearing, Republicans aired long-held grievances over what they say is Silicon Valley's bias against conservatives.

A BigDog robot at Boston Dynamics in 2010.

Tech Week: Robots, Turkish Twitter And A Frustrated Zuckerberg

In this week's roundup, tensions between tech companies and the NSA run hot, the simmering debate over women in tech continues and Turkey bans Twitter. What's next?

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