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Focus Tag: Twitter
Deepfake “Amazon workers” are sowing confusion on Twitter | MIT Technology Review
The news: Ahead of a landmark vote that could lead to the formation of the first-ever labor union at a US-based…
When journalists put tweets in news stories, do they transfer too much power to Twitter? | Nieman Journalism Lab
The new year brought new dimensions to the ongoing conversation on the power platforms have in hosting and shaping public…
Twitter is caught between politics and free speech. I was collateral damage. | Columbia Journalism Review
The Babri Masjid—a mosque in Ayodhya, a city in northern India—was a source of tension between Hindus and Muslims for…
Texas Wants to Ban Facebook and Twitter … From Banning | Vice
The state that wants to deregulate everything wants to tell Facebook and Twitter how to run their platforms. Gov. Greg…
Assessing the relative merits of news literacy and corrections in responding to misinformation on Twitter | New Media & Society Journal
Extending previous research, we test two solutions for addressing misinformation by pairing news literacy (NL) messages with corrective responses to…
Analysis: Twitter’s crowdsourced fact-checking experiment reveals problems | Poynter
On Feb. 5, Twitter flagged a post from controversial YouTuber Tim Pool that said the 2020 U.S. presidential election was…
Facebook, Twitter Struggling in Fight against Balkan Content Violations | Balkan Insight
Partners Serbia, a Belgrade-based NGO that works on initiatives to combat corruption and develop democracy and the rule of the…
Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment | PNAS
Americans are much more likely to be socially connected to copartisans, both in daily life and on social media. However,…
What is Birdwatch? | First Draft
Birdwatch is a new program launched by Twitter to combat misinformation on the platform, using volunteers to help determine the…