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This Is How Twitter’s Edit Button Can Actually Work
In June 2021, Twitter told the world “you don’t need an edit button, you just need to forgive yourself.” Twitter…
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TikTok’s Black Box Obscures Its Role in Russia’s War
Ten days into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, TikTok announced it had suspended new posts from Russian accounts due to the…
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A Zelensky Deepfake Was Quickly Defeated. The Next One Might Not Be
Other conflicts and political leaders may be less fortunate, and could be more vulnerable to disruption by deepfakes, says Sam…
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Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter in a Propaganda Standoff
Russia’s government announced on Friday that it has blocked Facebook, raising the stakes in a standoff between Big Tech and…
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TikTok Was Designed for War
TikTok’s algorithm feeds people videos it believes they are hungry to see. And there’s plenty of appetite for videos about…
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RE:WIRED 2021: Prince Harry Says He ‘Warned’ Jack Dorsey Before the Capitol Riots
Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, revealed at the RE:WIRED conference today that he had emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey…
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Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help Fix Social Media’s Trust Issue?
The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd…
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If YouTube Algorithms Radicalize Users, Data Doesn’t Show It
We’ve all seen it happen: Watch one video on YouTube and your recommendations shift, as if Google’s algorithms think the…
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Who’s Winning the War Between Biden and Facebook? Fox News
“All my research is on things that social media platforms can do to make things better,” said David Rand, a…
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New Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Are Going Viral in Arabic
Bill Gates is dressed as the Joker. His hair is fluorescent green, his face painted white and his elongated smile…
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