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Marine Le Pen has been charged for posting violent ISIS images on Twitter

Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right party Front National, has been charged for photos she posted on Twitter supposedly showing violent and gruesome acts committed by ISIS. As reported by AFP, she is facing charges of circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or … Read More

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Twitter seeks outside help to combat ‘abuse’ and ‘misinformation’

“We have witnessed abuse, harassment, troll armies, manipulation through bots and human-coordination, misinformation campaigns, and increasingly divisive echo chambers,” CEO Jack Dorsey said on Twitter. “We aren't proud of how people have taken advantage of our service, or our inability to … Read More

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‘Welcome to Arsenal Football Club’ – Twitter mocks misfiring Aubameyang

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was on from start to finish in Arsenal's 3-0 home defeat to Manchester City on Thursday, but several awkward moments meant it wasn't quite perfect. The Gabon international who joined the Gunners from Borussia Dortmund for a club-record fee, capped his side's mediocre … Read More

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While Facebook spars with critics, Twitter goes for humility on social media

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey unleashed a series of tweets March 1 where he admitted his company hasn't addressed abuse, harassment and misinformation on the service fast enough and announced steps to correct the situation. “We're committing Twitter to help increase the collective health, openness, … Read More

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Twitter wants to know if its platform is healthy

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter took to Twitter to ask for help measuring the overall health of conversations on its platform. The CEO tweeted, "If you want to improve something, you have to be able to measure it." Loading… Post to Facebook. Twitter wants to know if its platform is …

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Twitter CEO asks for help fixing ‘civility’ on Twitter

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is asking for help improving the openness and civility of conversation on Twitter, saying the company failed to prevent misinformation, echo … In a series of tweets , Dorsey says Twitter needs to re-engineer the service to encourage more healthy debate and critical thinking. Read More

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Twitter CEO asks for help on ‘civility’; YouTube stumbles

This combo photo of images shows the Twitter app and YouTube logo. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is asking for help improving the openness and civility of conversation on Twitter, saying the company failed to prevent misinformation, echo chambers and abuse of its global messaging service. Read More

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How much to fake a trend on Twitter? In one country, about £150

A BBC investigation has found that companies in Saudi Arabia are offering to artificially boost the popularity of hashtags to make them trend on Twitter – in contravention of the social media network's rules. The price to get automated "bot" accounts to make a hashtag trend for a few hours …

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‘We must do better’: Twitter

Mr Dorsey said negative consequences that Twitter has witnessed include abuse, harassment, troll armies, manipulation through bots and human-co-ordination, misinformation campaigns and increasingly divisive echo chambers. He said Twitter has been focusing on removing content that were against … Read More

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Twitter cries for help to solve existential crisis of whether it’s Good

Twitter's reasons for this effort are almost certainly the criticism it has worn for being blind to the army of propaganda-bots or – ahem – politically-curated accounts that spread fake news, and its own acceptance of ads from similar actors. The service also differs from other social networks by allowing … …