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.
Twitter’s mass layoffs included staff responsible for tracking and countering misinformation spread on the platform ahead of and during the US midterm elections.
Researchers at Tufts expressed concern in a report about conspiracy theories on Twitter ahead of the midterms.
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
The collective silence will be the most viral tweet in the world.
Conspiracy theories about mail ballots. Anonymous text messages warning voters to stay home. Fringe social media platforms where election misinformation spreads with impunity.
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.
Conspiracy theories about mail ballots. Anonymous text messages warning voters to stay home. Fringe social media platforms where election misinformation spreads with impunity.
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.
Cyber threats could outpace traditional approaches to data security: MyDIGITAL CEO
TikTok School challenge – what’s happening and what’s being done. Twitter disinformation campaign in Kenya and the lack of diversity in the AI workforce across the world.
Soniya Gokhale interviews Bhaskar Chakravorti on misinformation and the dilemma it poses for governments globally.
As work, school, social interactions, and shopping shifted online, consumer and business adoption of digital technologies witnessed a surge globally—we advanced digitally by 5 years in just 8 weeks
In this episode of ‘Special Series with Dr. Punita Kumar Sinha speaks with Bhaskar Chakravorti, as he delves into the intricacies of Big Tech and its pros and cons.
Whether it’s about US elections or COVID vaccines, misinformation continues to spread like wildfire on social media with very real and, in some cases, dire consequences. But some people are more vulnerable than others. Why? And what can be done to keep people safe? Bhaskar Chakravorti breaks it all down.
The technology is too important to be left in the clutches of Silicon Valley.
Could the 2020 election be the perfect storm for misinformation? ABC News analyzes Digital Planet’s Misinformation Index to find out.
Bhaskar Chakravorti discusses the spread of misinformation across social media platforms, which has increased as we draw closer to the 2020 presidential election.
The two major political parties in the United States are in an all-out sprint leading up to the presidential election. Neither has had a shortage of digital mediums to amplify their views to the public. The American public’s increased reliance on social media as a source of news is worrisome because of the propensity of these platforms to spread misinformation. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated this trend, tethering people ever more to their personal electronic devices and fostering a boom of both digital crime and misinformation.
NBC Boston | Bhaskar Chakravorti is interviewed and expresses his thoughts on President Trump’s recommendation to inject disinfectants.
It is about time, Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook/WhatsApp), Sundar Pichai (Google/YouTube), Jack Dorsey (Twitter) and Zhang Yiming (TikTok) made some tough calls, much like what their own political leaders have done.
Social media companies combat COVID-19 misinformation but urged to do more. Increased efforts needed to tackle the spread of false information.
The rise of the coronavirus is leading to a surge of false and possibly dangerous misinformation. Where can people go to get the facts?
Rumors and untruths are spreading online — from conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus to outlandish treatments.
Facebook’s new new “physical harm” standard is one that Twitter and Google ought to adopt.
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