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Twitter

Scientists think Twitter might help reveal the origins of COVID-19

January 26th, 2021

Chris Smith

A team of researchers analyzed Twitter mentions of pneumonia and dry cough, two common coronavirus symptoms, to determine the arrival of COVID-19 in Europe. The scientists found a statistically significant increase in mentions of COVID-19 symptoms in early 2020, weeks before the first cases were confirmed in several European countries. Using geolocation data, they also …

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July 23rd, 2021

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July 22nd, 2021

Stimulus check update: 2.2 million new payments just went out – will you get one?

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Tech

Twitter wants to fix the toxic internet with Birdwatch

January 26th, 2021

Chris Smith

Twitter just announced Birdwatch, a community-based feature meant to address the misinformation spreading on social networks. Users can sign up for Birdwatch, at which point they’ll be able to annotate tweets spreading misleading news. The service will run separately from Twitter initially and won’t impact the visibility of the tweets that are addressed in Birdwatch. …

Politics

Twitter’s decision to ban President Trump’s account is already paying off

January 18th, 2021

Yoni Heisler

Twitter permanently banned President Trump’s Twitter account following the storming of the US Capitol on January 6. Trump was also kicked off YouTube, Facebook, and Snapchat. Just one week after Trump’s Twitter account was removed, conversations about election fraud dropped by nearly 70%. In the wake of the riot at the US capitol building on …

Politics

Here are all the internet platforms so far that have banned President Trump

January 11th, 2021

Andy Meek

President Trump today finds himself either banned or suspended from more than a dozen major internet services and apps, some of which have also taken similar actions against Trump supporters in the wake of last week’s violent DC riots that left at least five people dead. This comes as the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives drew …

Politics

Twitter just permanently banned Trump’s account, but his tweets are archived here

January 8th, 2021

Andy Meek

Twitter took the extraordinary step on Friday of permanently suspending President Trump’s account, two days after the horrific riots in Washington DC that resulted in five deaths and dozens of arrests. Also Friday, prominent Trump surrogates like Gen. Michael Flynn were banned by Twitter. An archive of President Trump’s tweets, including his most recent from …

Politics

Twitter will ban Donald Trump’s account if he breaks the rules again

January 6th, 2021

Jacob Siegal

Twitter has locked President Donald Trump’s account for 12 hours after he repeatedly broke the service’s rules on Wednesday during the attempted coup that he incited. Twitter says that Trump’s account will remain locked until the offending tweets have been deleted, and says that if he breaks the rules again, his account will be permanently …

Politics

Facebook and Twitter seem to only care about hacked material when it hurts Democrats

October 15th, 2020

Andy Meek

Facebook and Twitter kicked up a media firestorm on Wednesday over a decision the platforms made relative to Hunter Biden emails — and, specifically, to either limiting their distribution across the platforms and in some cases not allowing users to share posts including a new story about them at all. Twitter, for example, argued that …

Science

Facebook and Twitter blocked Trump’s lie about children being immune to coronavirus

August 6th, 2020

Chris Smith

The coronavirus immunity question has not been thoroughly answered, as it’s still unclear what sort of protection COVID-19 survivors get and how long vaccine immunity might last. President Trump and his team posted clips on social media from one of his interviews, where he said he said children are “almost definitely” immune to the virus, …

Tech

After today’s shocking hack, Twitter still has some major explaining to do

July 16th, 2020

Andy Meek

A massive Twitter hack on Wednesday targeted a slew of the service’s most high-profile users, including President Obama, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and former Vice President Joe Biden. The tweets that started showing up in those users’ timelines asked for people to send them Bitcoin. Twitter blamed the hack on a “coordinated social engineering” scam. …

Politics

Twitter finally adds a warning label to Trump’s tweets, but it will solve absolutely nothing

May 26th, 2020

Andy Meek

For the first time, a warning label has been added to misleading tweets posted from President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The warning label includes a link to a new page debunking Trump claims about mail-in voting ballots. President Trump went on to blast Twitter for the move — on Twitter. There are three certainties in …

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