When a phony Associated Press tweet reported explosions in the White House, Wall Street's computers reacted as if it were real.
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Because It Would Mean Banning Some Republican Politicians Too. A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.
The Social Security Administration once again is floating an extremely ableist proposal: using social media accounts, such as Twitter and Facebook, to monitor people with disabilities who receive disability benefits from the government.
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The captain of the Donald Trump fan club, Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, is suing Twitter and two anonymous twitter accounts for $250 million. He is suing @DevinNunesMom & @DevinCow. The @DevinNunesMom account was suspended yesterday, but @DevinCow is still going and we can't have that. We cannot have livestock insulting our esteemed elected officials! So please in the interest of civility we're asking you, please do NOT follow @DevinCow.
The creator of Godwin’s law interviews David Simon about Nazis on Twitter and so much more.
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One Democratic Party consultant said an unnamed client controlled many of these accounts.
Tweets containing false information tend to be more novel and to elicit greater surprise and disgust than tweets with real news. That novelty and emotional charge seem to be what generates more retweets.
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