Our new paper shows how Indonesian-language disinformation promoting government narratives on special autonomy has swamped Twitter since February 2021.
The restraints on COVID-19 misinformation on Twitter are off.
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Black Twitter has played a significant role in shaping the platform. In the wake of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, questions are being asked over the community’s future.
#blacktwitter helped mobilize social protests against police brutality across the country, like this one in New York City in July 2020.
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Black Twitter is often the preferred forum for candid and authentic Black-centered discussions on police brutality. Without it, holding police accountable may become even more difficult.
Radical change at Twitter shows how quickly strategies and values can shift in Big Tech. New Zealand needs to be less reliant on overseas solutions for its own digital infrastructure plans.
We often trust corporate logos and symbols without necessarily understanding the legal statutes that govern them.
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Over the past 16 years, Twitter has amassed an incredible amount of user-generated data which contains a detailed and extensive record of cultural moments. Musk’s takeover threatens these archives.
Daniel Angus, Queensland University of Technology and Timothy Graham, Queensland University of Technology
With the World Cup under way (bringing in more traffic) and more than 1,000 employees having reportedly resigned, concerns for the platform’s future are warranted.
Since its beginnings in 2006, Twitter has grown into one of the most important social networks in the world.
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If Twitter were to go dark, with it would go a valuable source of data as well as a means of sharing information relied on by activists, journalists, public health officials and scientists.
Ghana’s protest culture has grown along with the spread of social media.
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There are ways in which platform workers can resist the rise in job insecurity and poor working conditions brought on by digital labour platforms.
Twitter users who are fleeing to the social media platform Mastodon are finding it to be a different animal.
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The turmoil at Twitter has many people turning to an alternative, Mastodon. The social media platform does a lot of what Twitter and Facebook do, but there are key differences.
One in seven believe that victims of the Manchester arena bombing were ‘crisis actors’.
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Mastodon is open-source software that enables a decentralized social media network. It operates differently from the corporate-owned social media platforms we have become accustomed to.