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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…
Behind Fake-Account Issue That Elon Musk Cited in Calling Twitter Deal ‘On Hold’ | The Wall Street Journal
by Sarah E. Needleman
May 15, 2022
Elon Musk’s tweet saying his planned Twitter Inc. acquisition was on hold put the spotlight on questions about fake accounts,…
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
May 13, 2022
The US$44 billion (£36 billion) purchase of Twitter by “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk has many people worried. The concern…