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Twitter Sues U.S. Government for Demanding It Unmask an “Alt” Account

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 by John Daniell

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Published By: Computer World, 4/6/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter is suing the Department of Homeland Security for demanding personal information for accounts that have used the site to criticize the U.S. customs and immigration…

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Twitter Inches Forward in Fight Against Abuse

March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The Huffington Post, 3/1/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter is making efforts to crack down on harassment on their platform using several strategies: enhancing the Mute feature with new screening options, increasing…

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Twitter Researchers Offer Clues for Why Trump Won

March 6, 2017March 14, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: University of Rochester, 2/20/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Jiebo Luo and Yu Wang are using Twitter data to develop models that would correctly predict the result of the 2016 presidential election. They are…

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Google Cousin Develops Technology to Flag Toxic Online Comments

March 2, 2017March 2, 2017 by Nnamdi Onwumere

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Published By: The New York Times, 2/23/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Google Alphabet has developed new software called Perspective that will flag potentially problematic user comments, for example so news sites can narrow down…

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Finding Credibility Clues on Twitter

February 6, 2017February 8, 2017 by Michael Morguarge

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Published By: Georgia Tech News Center, 1/26/2017 >> View the Article << Summary Georgia Tech Researchers have created an early prototype system that uses a language model to predict the perceived credibility of social media messages,…

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What’s the Role of Social Media in the News Media?

December 14, 2016December 14, 2016 by John Daniell

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Published By: PRI (Public Radio International), 12/10/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Fake news stories shared on social media played a major role in the spread of misinformation during the 2016 U.S. elections and after, even spurring…

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Social Media Companies Rescind Access to Geofeedia

October 25, 2016November 9, 2016 by Anna Clark

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Published By: The Baltimore Sun, 10/11/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have revoked commercial access to their data by social-media analysis company Geofeedia, which had been providing information obtained on their…

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Facebook Backs Down From “Napalm Girl” Censorship and Reinstates Photo

September 19, 2016September 23, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: The Guardian, 9/9/2016 >> View the Article << Summary Facebook recently blocked a news article that reprinted a Vietnam War photo of a naked girl running from a napalm attack. The photo was flagged…

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Only Some of @realDonaldTrump’s Tweets Are Actually Donald Trump

August 26, 2016September 21, 2016 by Julia Bernd

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Published By: Scientific American, 8/18/2016 Summary: Data scientists used post metadata and patterns in post format to show that tweets from @realDonaldTrump come from different people, and sentiment analysis to show that the tweets from Trump…

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