Hate is for the haters. Much of the thrill of posting toxic messages can come from the attention and social approval a poster gets from like-minded people.
Citizens have sometimes been surprised to find public officials blocking people from viewing their social media feeds.
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Even people with years of relevant training can’t always tell whether social content is evidence-based and trustworthy. We need a better approach for communicating research.
With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
Content moderators like these workers make decisions about online communities based on company dictates.
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In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Turning around the platform is a Musk.
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Our research has found the ‘yes’ side has been generating the lion’s share of Voice content in the media and social media over the past six weeks, but is still trailing in the polls.
WeChat aims to be everything to everyone but remain mostly in the background.
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The design philosophy of the everything app WeChat may seem paradoxical, being simultaneously pervasive and inconspicuous. But this idea of “everythingness” goes back to ancient Taoist philosophy.
Under the hood of your digital life, APIs are making connections.
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How do all the different pieces of digital technology you use every day – weather apps, online banking, games and so on – talk to each other? Via application programming interfaces, or APIs.
President Joe Biden speaks during a press conference at the White House in January 2022.
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While President Joe Biden has low approval ratings, few other American presidents − with the exception of FDR and Warren Harding − have experienced such a run of good media luck.
Antisemitism on X recycles ancient tropes falsely blaming Jewish people for a wide range of social and political ills, and for their own victimization.
To maximize the benefits of social media while minimizing its harms, we need to better understand how it works and how it affects us.
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An analysis of tweets posted by the Ukrainian national government and the Kyiv city government in the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 shows a national resilience.
Would a fight help them prove to themselves that they are ‘real men,’ despite their soft − probably manicured − hands?
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Everything apps offer a wide range of features, combining social media with personal finances. But creating the perfect everything app is no easy task.