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Elon Musk could roll back social media moderation – just as we’re learning how it can stop misinformation | The Conversation
by Harith Alani, Grégoire Burel, Tracie Farrell
6 days ago
The US$44 billion (£36 billion) purchase of Twitter by “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk has many people worried. The concern…
Countries with lower-than-expected vaccination rates show unusually negative attitudes to vaccines on Twitter | The Conversation
by Jungmi Jun and Ali Zain
May 10, 2022
In countries with lower-than-expected COVID-19 vaccination rates, mentions of side effects and negative emotions dominated overall social media discourses on…
Why Elon Musk’s ambition to have Twitter “authenticate all real humans” will get people killed | Rest of World
by Andrew Deck, Emily Fishbein and Genevieve Glatsky
May 9, 2022
In June 2021, Alita, a trans woman living in Saudi Arabia, saw a hashtag trending on Twitter that translated roughly…
Elon Musk is wrong: research shows content rules on Twitter help preserve free speech from bots and other manipulation | The Conversation
by Filippo Menczer
May 9, 2022
Elon Musk’s accepted bid to purchase Twitter has triggered a lot of debate about what it means for the future…
FCC Republican backs Musk’s Twitter purchase, slams “restrictions on speech” | Ars Technica
by Jon Brodkin
May 2, 2022
Federal Communications Commission member Nathan Simington says the FCC should "applaud" Elon Musk for buying Twitter, arguing that Musk's "stated…
Here’s what we know about Elon Musk’s ownership plan for Twitter | The Verge
by Richard Lawler
May 2, 2022
This is the end of the first week after Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s $44 billion buyout offer, and one of the…
How Congress Can Prevent Elon Musk from Turning Twitter Back Into an Unfettered Disinformation Machine | The New Yorker
by John Cassidy
April 28, 2022
Over the weekend, a story came out of Brussels that many may have missed. The twenty-seven member states of the…
Anxiety and conflict avoidance keep people from calling out misinformation in messaging groups | Nieman Journalism Lab
by Shraddha Chakradhar
April 28, 2022
You’re in a WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger group with people you know and interact with regularly. Maybe it’s a family…
Elon Musk’s plans for Twitter could make its misinformation problems worse | The Conversation
by Anjana Susarla
April 26, 2022
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, acquired Twitter in a US$44 billion deal on April 25, 2022, 11 days after…