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Elon Musk Embraces Twitter’s Radical Fact-Checking Experiment
Unlike Polis, Twitter’s project has to find consensus not for one question at a time but for any conceivable controversy…
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Why the Emoji Skin Tone You Choose Matters
“I’m a white person, and despite there being a range of skin tones available for emoji these days, I still…
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Want to Archive Twitter? Good Luck With That
From the moment Elon Musk closed his Twitter deal, the network’s diehard users have taken steps to eulogize it. People…
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The Man Behind Mastodon Eugen Rochko Built It for This Moment
What did you make of Elon Musk poking fun of Mastodon in a recent tweet? Honestly, it was really a…
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TikTok’s Format Breeds Sassy Customer Service
Remmington has also since received a DM from the brand on Instagram, explaining that alongside the video, Uniqlo had meant…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
At the end of August, Sean Murphy was trying to book a flight between Nairobi, Kenya, and Entebbe, Uganda, with…
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Twitter Users Have Caused a Mastodon Meltdown
Rochko says he was too busy this week working on Mastodon to comment about the overloaded servers, and how the…
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A Race to Bridge the Analog Divide in US Politics
“While I see and understand the power of social media and how you can communicate messages and engage in some…
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After Twitter Staff Cuts, Survivors Face ‘Radio Silence’
“Saturday was the cleanup,” he says. Much of the day was spent working on removing departed colleagues’ access and trying…
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Inside Meta’s Oversight Board: 2 Years of Pushing Limits
Ultimately, the issue came up in a March 2022 meeting with Clegg, who seemed taken aback by the board members’…
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