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“I don’t want to build animosity between my neighbors because of information I can’t confirm.”
This browser extension can help you undo one piece of the misinformation-related damage Musk has done to the newsiest of social platforms.
If you had to come up with a single move designed to deal a blow to whatever traffic is left and make sharing news more of a hassle, you couldn’t do much better than eliminating headlines from posts.
Plus: The catalyzing effect of attacks on journalists, how journalists describe their target audiences, and new evidence of local news nonprofits’ impact.
“The reason I have to have undercover voters is because social media sites won’t — and to some extent, can’t — tell you exactly what they’re recommending every single voter.”
It now says “X” on the website (you know, the one that’s still at, um, twitter.com). But to the news media and much of the outside world, the name of the old bird platform is still Twitter.
“This community has a problem that many immigrant communities have: It needs reliable information about the community in its language.”
“During a casual conversation in an informal setting, people would listen to us.”
Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?
“In interviews for this story, the harshest position against Fox News among journalism deans seemed to be a sort of double-secret probation.”