Apr 10 Quiz: How much do you know about your internet privacy? By Rhana Natour We made a quiz to test your knowledge. Continue reading
Apr 10 Twitter backs bill to make political ads online more transparent By Associated Press Twitter says it is endorsing the Honest Ads Act, a bipartisan bill designed to make online political advertisements more transparent by revealing who paid for them, among other information. Continue reading
Mar 09 False news travels 6 times faster on Twitter than truthful news By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American False news -- inaccurate information presented as truth or opinion presented as fact -- is 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than information that faithfully reports actual events, according to a new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Continue reading
Feb 28 Inside the study showing conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals By Rashmi Shivni Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election. Continue reading
Feb 17 Indictment says social media firms got played by Russian agents By Mae Anderson, Associated Press Facebook and Twitter were played by Russian propagandists and it's not clear if the companies have taken sufficient action to prevent something similar from happening again. Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch 9:38 How Trump’s love of Twitter translates abroad By PBS News Hour President Donald Trump uses Twitter to speak directly to the American people. How is this mode of communication heard in foreign nations? Former ambassador Nancy McEldowney, who is now at Georgetown University, and Kenneth Weinstein, president and CEO of the… Continue watching
Dec 06 Do Trump’s anti-Muslim retweets put Americans at risk? House Democrats press Tillerson for an answer By Richard Lardner, Associated Press In a letter sent Wednesday to Tillerson, the 20 members of the Foreign Affairs Committee said they are extremely troubled over Trump's retweets last week of inflammatory videos from a fringe British political group that purported to show violence being… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch 11:58 Trump’s recent Russia probe tweets raise questions about interference. Here’s what we know and what we don’t By PBS News Hour The Friday guilty plea by former national security advisor Michael Flynn touched off a running response from President Trump on Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Taken together, two of the president’s statements could suggest interference. P.J. Tobia reports and Miles O’Brien… Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch 9:45 The risks of Trump retweeting anti-Muslim messages By PBS News Hour President Trump shared what are widely seen as virulent anti-Muslim messages on Wednesday, igniting a new firestorm and prompting a spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May to say, “It is wrong for the president to have done this.” Judy… Continue watching
Nov 01 Watch 3:37 Facing tougher questions on Russian interference, social media giants vow to do better By PBS News Hour Facebook, Twitter and Google were back on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to testify before congressional intelligence committees on whether their platforms were used by Russia to impact the 2016 election. All three companies admitted fault, but they do not yet… Continue watching