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Unfortunately, social network leaders still appear to be tone deaf regarding Myanmar’s reported atrocities. Twitter chief Jack Dorsey posted a series of tweets encouraging followers to visit Myanmar after he’d been there for a birthday meditation retreat, seemingly ignoring widespread evidence of the country’s government committing genocide against the Rohingya people and forcing hundreds of […]
Twitter’s release of more than 10 million tweets from Russia’s Internet Research Agency and Iran sheds little light on those agencies’ current tactics, researchers say. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bc78122ffac9b2ce1d579f3/master/pass/Iran-825585010-final.jpg
The Twitter CEO talks with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson about how the social media service is different today than 12 years ago. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bc64f3f91b99b2d21c6f8ba/master/pass/amy-lombard-WIRED_MG_9760.jpg
Twitter announced it’s giving users more control over their timelines just in time for tweets about Toad. https://media.wired.com/photos/5ba1608d7db5cc04892e8e14/master/pass/Twitter%20reverts%20to%20chronological.jpg
Enlarge / Conspiracy theorist and talk show host Alex Jones. (credit: InfoWars) After weeks of controversy, Twitter officially banned conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars site from its platform. The social media company tweeted out the decision from its Twitter Safety account Thursday afternoon, stating that it permanently suspended Alex Jones and InfoWars after both accounts posted […]
“I Admit” is a brazen and sickening piece of pop art—and Black Twitter spared no time in calling out its hypocrisy. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b563b7409b702757fc5f79c/master/pass/RKelly_P97BW3.jpg
ANALYSIS: Users can now see more information than ever before about how advertisers are using some of the largest social media platforms, thanks to ad transparency tools released earlier this week by Facebook and Twitter. But just because users have more information doesn’t mean it’s easy for them to parse. As a refresher, the release […]
Twitter wasn’t kidding when it promised a flurry of video. The social network has announced more than 30 video deals, including a slew of live shows. To begin with, Twitter has landed a Formula 1 deal: The @f1 account will stream a live post-race show (sorry, no live races) with both key interviews and panel […]
Twitter released quite a few news-related features over the past years in an effort to become your go-to source for the latest in current events. It introduced a dedicated News tab in 2015, for instance, though that one didn’t work out as planned. Last month, it also started testing an algorithm that puts trending tweets […]
Twitter’s spam bot issue isn’t new, but it came to a head when it was revealed that thousands of Russian troll accounts used the platform to influence the 2016 Presidential elections. Now, the company has announced a set of changes and new developer guidelines meant to fight off automated actions and to make it harder […]
