May 23 Twitter to add special labels to U.S. political candidates By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press Twitter says the move is to provide users with "authentic information" and prevent spoofed and fake accounts from fooling users. The labels will include what office a person is running for and where. Continue reading
May 07 Millions of tweets spread anti-Semitic messages, report finds By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press Anti-Defamation League national director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said the data showed many used Twitter as a "megaphone to harass and intimidate Jews."… Continue reading
Apr 29 Watch 4:15 Ever-growing 'tribalism' in politics extends to entertainment By PBS News Hour From backlash toward musicians Kanye West and Shania Twain for praising President Donald Trump to controversy around comedian Michelle Wolf’s roast at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the entertainment industry is encountering the country’s stark political lines. NewsHour Weekend Special… Continue watching
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