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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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Congress lays into the heads of major tech companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter to find out how Russia used social media to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.
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Scientists begin going rogue, create alt Twitter account and plan march on D.C.
The platform is not obligated to serve as the president-elect’s bully pulpit
About one in every five election-related tweets from Sept. 16 to Oct. 21 was generated by computer software programs called “social bots.”
Donald Trump is very likely regretting his Twitter attack on Senator Elizabeth Warren after her savage responses went viral.
Author and professor of political science at the University of Chicago and founder of the Black Youth Project, Cathy Cohen explains the growing role of hashtags in political discussion and what digital media can and can't do for activists.
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