Hosts file localhost loopback failure for 127.0.0.1 twitter.com

New message from hosts file entry. First time this has been shown.

No internet connection
Please check your connection and try again.

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This is a hosts file entry for a news organisation. The entry was not added today so may have been in hosts file for a few days or a week or more.

brave://net-internals/#dns
Resolved IP addresses of “www.cbsnews.com”: [“127.0.0.1”].
No data on which protocols are supported.

Please note. This is not to single out CBS. Many other household name news organisations have been added to the hosts file as a localhost loopback.

For example inter alia;

www.aljazeera.com
www.bbc.com
www.channel4.com
www.channelnewsasia.com
www.foxnews.com
www.rt.com

all return.

ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

The internet connection though remains connected and secured.

FYI. Twitter still loading.