Many emojis approved last fall came into widespread usage this year, with the new faces proving especially popular. The smiling, holding-back-tears face conveyed our most sentimental selves, while the melting face spoke to a feeling of disintegration in the face of overwhelming reality. The hand-over-mouth and peeking-through-fingers faces were perfect …
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Elon Musk released the anticlimatic “Twitter Files” about “free speech suppression” by the social-media platform on Friday evening. On Monday, he teased the release, writing, “The public deserves to know what really happened …” What followed after was a series of tweeted snippets detailing what the public has known—and what …
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After praising Adolf Hitler in a Thursday afternoon interview with conspiracy theoristAlex Jones, Kanye West took to Twitter to share an image of a swastika intertwined with aStarof David later that night. Appearing to promote his supposed presidential campaign (which has yet to be filed with the Federal Election Commission), …
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Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin has been reinstated to Twitter under Elon Musk’s new policies for the platform. The founder of the white supremacist website The Daily Stormer had been banned from Twitter since 2013. Anglin has publicly indicated that the goal of his operation and adherence to white nationalist ideology is …
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Jack White has been keeping up with Elon Musk’s Twitter regime — and has some pointed words about it. On Friday, the “Love Is Blindness” musician shared his thoughts on Musk’s allowance of certain people (read: Donald Trump, neo-Nazis) and certain hate (read: antisemitism, white supremacy) on his platform. “So …
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When Elon Musk wanted to bring Donald Trump’s account back to Twitter, he turned to one of the platform’s most familiar features to legitimize the move—a poll. A narrow 51.8 percent of his audience voted to “Reinstate former President Trump,” leading the billionaire CEO to reinstate the infamous account. A …
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Twitter has stopped enforcing its Covid misinformation policy, designed to prevent the spread of harmful false narratives about the pandemic. This has increased simmering concerns that the platform, already an echo chamber for many users, could become a misinformation super-spreader.Users are already testing the waters to see what kind of …
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Elon Musk announced plans to “tentatively” launch a new Twitter verification program on Friday next week. All verified accounts would be “manually authenticated” before the coveted check “activates.” The company CEO called the new process “Painful, but necessary.” The verification update will also differentiate verified individuals with additional colors: gold …
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Stephen Colbert offered Elon Musk some advice after the billionaire’s 2022 wealth loss exceeded $100 billion following several Twitter and business mishaps. As shares of Tesla Inc. dropped to the lowest level in two years, Colbert announced the troubling news on last night’s episode of The Late Show: “After a …
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Elon Musk announced on Thursday that he is granting “amnesty” on previously suspended accounts, bringing into question (yet again) on how Twitter will manage misinformation and hate speech. The Twitter CEO’s declaration followed the results of a poll he posted on the platform, inviting users to vote on reinstatements for …
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