Dispatch from the Digital Planet: August 2023
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
This week, Musk disbanded the Trust and Safety Council, made up of civil, human rights and other organizations to address hate speech, harassment, child exploitation, suicide, self-harm and other problems on the platform
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Since Musk has taken over, the most obvious sign of change at Twitter are the formerly banned users whose accounts have been reinstated. | The Times of India
Post Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, hate speech surged. We examined antisemitism, anti-LGBTQ+, racial hate. Analysis (Mar’22-Jan’23) revealed: hate speech volume increased, discourse quality worsened. Despite slight policy shift, toxicity persisted under Musk’s Twitter.
Researchers monitoring a “firehose” of public tweets found signs of increasing toxicity—before Elon Musk reversed bans on Trump and other divisive figures.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Discussions about the Trump-related, false conspiracy theory have ramped back up
The new owner of Twitter has embarked on a tweeting spree to push back, spar and justify his actions.
Twitter’s mass layoffs included staff responsible for tracking and countering misinformation spread on the platform ahead of and during the US midterm elections.
The single galvanizing narrative is that the 2020 election was stolen,’ observes Tufts scholar in technological change and society
Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 4, 2022. Twitter’s new subscription rolled out Wednesday with predictably disastrous results
Extremists and toxic posts have flourished on Twitter since it was acquired by Elon Musk a week and a half ago, according to a new report
Elon Musk says the plan makes the site’s signature blue checks more accessible.
False narratives about voting in the midterm elections proliferated on the platform, which has shed half its employees since Mr. Musk bought the company last month.
Ahead of the US midterms, Twitter analyzed trending toxic political themes. Pre-Musk, focus was countering misinformation and hate. Post-takeover, discourse quality declined, extremists emerged.
Dispatch from the Digital Planet is a monthly bulletin that talks about new updates in digital innovation across the world and their impact.
Examining 16.3M tweets (Feb-Oct ’22) from 5 nations on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover, reactions shifted: positive to criticism, negativity to buyout plan, sadness on his control. Across countries, emotions followed Musk’s moves on Twitter.
Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr. and Republican lawmakers are seeing their follower counts spike, while Democrats’ are on the decline.
While the Twitter community backed Musk’s tweets criticizing the platform, those feelings quickly turned sour at the idea of the billionaire buying Twitter.
Taking Twitter off the public equity markets, as he wants to, would give him license to do as he pleases with the platform.
Musk would likely decimate Twitter’s brand and reputation, say current and former employees.