Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we…
Archive
Focus Tag: Twitter
Experts grade Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube on readiness to handle midterm election misinformation | The Conversation
by Dam Hee Kim, Anjana Susarla, and Scott Shackelford
October 19, 2022
The 2016 U.S. election was a wake-up call about the dangers of political misinformation on social media. With two more…
2022 Midterms: NYU’s CSMaP Seminar Series
September 19, 2022
Beyond Facebook and Twitter: The Impact of New and Niche Platforms For years, Facebook and Twitter dominated scholarly research about…
Meta, TikTok, YouTube and Twitter dodge questions on social media and national security | TechCrunch
by Taylor Hatmaker
September 15, 2022
Executives from four of the biggest social media companies testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, defending their platforms…
Twitter had a new plan to fight extremism — then Elon arrived | The Verge
by Zoe Schiffer and Casey Newton
September 6, 2022
It had been a long pandemic for Twitter’s research team. Tasked with solving some of the platform’s toughest problems around…
Twitter has an experimental crowdsourced fact-checking feature | The Washington Post
by Will Oremus
August 30, 2022
As the big social media platforms trot out familiar misinformation policies ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Twitter is holding…
Has QAnon fuelled South Africa’s divisions? | BBC Sounds
by Mpho Lakaje
August 15, 2022
What happened when a bizarre US-based conspiracy theory surfaced a continent away in Africa? In the second part of Trending’s…
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers urge Facebook, Twitter to better fight Russian disinformation | Reuters
by Reuters
July 29, 2022
A bipartisan group of three U.S. senators urged Meta's Facebook, Twitter and Telegram to do a better job of stopping…
Twitter announces crisis misinformation policy in Ukraine | Protocol
by Issie Lapowsky
May 20, 2022
Twitter will begin taking action against misinformation in crisis situations, the company said Thursday. The new policy will be immediately…
Musk’s Twitter bid, and the ‘bot’ complication | Columbia Journalism Review
by Mathew Ingram
May 20, 2022
Elon Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter for $44 billion is only a month old, but it has already had more…