Twittergate

English

Etymology

From Twitter +‎ -gate.

Proper noun

Twittergate

1. A 2016 controversy where thousands of accounts were discovered to be posting child pornography on Twitter.
   • 2016 November 23, Stefanie MacWilliams, “First #Pizzagate, Now #Twittergate: Twitter Suspends User After She Exposes Over 20,000 Child Porn Linked Accounts”, in Renegade Tribune‎^[1]:

     Earlier this week, we reported some happenings regarding #Pizzagate. Now, we have something that is being referred to as #Twittergate.

2. A 2022 controversy where internal communications showed that Twitter allegedly colluded with the United States government to censor unfavorable viewpoints.
   • 2022 December 8, Daniel Greenfield, “Twittergate and the plot against free speech”, in Jewish National Syndicate‎^[2]:

     Twittergate had revealed the long game behind Russiagate, which was about manufacturing a crisis, in this case Trump, as a pretext for treating free speech as a national disinformation crisis requiring the suspension of civil rights and liberties in order to save democracy.

   • 2023 January 10, “The FBI’s ‘Twittergate’ troubles”, in The Washington Times‎^[3]:

     If it seems Mr. Musk is unfairly targeting the U.S. intelligence community for embarrassment, it should not be forgotten that “Twittergate” is just the latest in a series of damning revelations of dirty Washington tricks meant to rob voters of their constitutional right to self-government.

3. Any other controversy involving Twitter.
   • 2009 May 27, Henry Blodget, “Germany Gripped By Twittergate, As Presidential Election Results Are Secretly Tweeted”, in Business Insider‎^[4]:

Further reading

• Twitter Files on Wikipedia.Wikipedia