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At first glance, this seems like a good idea, but think about this for a moment: Twitter management believes that Twitter is so dangerous that you need a way to remove people from your twitterverse without alerting them or their friends. Continue Reading →

Let me get this straight. I'm about to get into a Twitter war on a topic such as women's reproductive rights, politics, taxes, music, sports, race relations, #MeToo, or any other topic that might inspire me to comment or state my case, and Twitter thinks that letting me know that there are very strong feelings on display will be news to me or be helpful in any way? Perhaps the people at Twitter missed that day at Twitter school. Continue Reading →

Who is most likely to disrupt Twitter by becoming a decentralized version of the platform? Twitter itself. Continue Reading →

President Biden plans to sign a sweeping executive order, which includes 72 actions and recommendations and involves a dozen federal agencies, to re-shape the thinking around corporate consolidation and antitrust laws. Continue Reading →

Twitter is testing a new way to remove "unwanted attention" from your account. Continue Reading →

I have often wondered which would be worse: a world where social media platforms are not held responsible for the content people post, or a world where they are. This "thought experiment" just became less hypothetical, as Twitter is testing three levels of warning labels for tweets its algorithm scores as potentially containing misinformation: "Get the latest," "Stay Informed," and "Misleading." Continue Reading →

Are you ready to bid on your first non-fungible token? Welcome to the world of crypto collectibles, where you can purchase a piece of unique, digital content that is guaranteed to be authentic and, theoretically, can't be duplicated. Continue Reading →

We have new tools. We need new ideas. Continue Reading →

Twitter wants the community to fact-check tweets, so it created Birdwatch: a website where program participants can, to use Twitter's words, "add context" to individual tweets. Continue Reading →

Every major news outlet is reporting that election misinformation has dropped more than 70 percent since Trump was deplatformed from the major social media sites. Is this true? Continue Reading →