Twitter Blue is currently trending with such disinformation and misinformation. … [+]The result of the changes in the verification process which began this year. (Photo by Getty Images/STR/NurPhoto) NurPhoto via Getty Images Twitter Blue users may have a tendency to spread false information about the conflict in Ukraine. The BBC reported that some of the […]
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NEW YORK – MAY 2: Elon Musk attended the 2022 Met Gala, Celebrating “In America” … [+]Anthology of Fashion”, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on May 02/2022. Photo by Dimitrios Kambauris/Getty images for The Met Museum/Vogue Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue Elon Musk is a tech billionaire who may […]
TOPSHOT- Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the concert celebrating the eighth anniversary … [+]Russia’s annexed Crimea on the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, March 18, 2022. Photo by Sergei GUNEYEV /POOL / AFP. (Photo by SERGEI GUNEYEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The spread of information via social media platforms has been a powerful […]
Here’s what you need to know to Get Up to Speed and On with Your Day. (You can get “5 Things You Need to Know Today” delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here.) 1. Supreme Court The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson yesterday in a historic vote that […]
Social media’s response to Ukraine’s crisis is very similar to that of the Arab Spring (2010) (Photo by … [+] Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images A Pew Research Center survey in 2020 found that eight out of ten Americans received news via their digital devices. In addition, slightly more than half […]
Russian Government Conspiracy Theories About Ukraine Hospital Removed By Facebook, Twitter Mariana Vishegirskaya standing outside of a Mariupol bombing damaged maternity facility … [+]Ukraine. 9 March 2022. Vishegirskaya survived shelling, and then gave birth in another Mariupol hospital to a little girl. ASSOCIATED PROPRESS Facebook and Twitter removed posts from nearly 20 Russian embassies around […]
On February 24, at roughly 6:15 AM, our friends in Kyiv received the worst wake-up call one may imagine. A series of seven loud explosions ripped through the air, spreading panic and horror across this peaceful European capital housing 3 million people. That was the beginning mark of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine: aggression incomprehensible given […]
Russia’s invasion into Ukraine has caused global angst, putting the military super powers of the world at odds once again, and potentially forcing an intervention that could lead to one of the biggest conflicts in decades. And unlike similar incidents in times past, this battle is playing out in the age of social media, with […]
After a rocket strike in Kyiv (Ukraine), Friday February 25, 2022, Natali Sevriukova responds near her home. ASSOCIATED PROPRESS A friend approached Eslam Mmadouh, desperate to help him. Would Mamdouh drive him 340 miles west to Lviv, a city near Ukraine’s border with Poland? Mamdouh agreed, though the young nursing student has been reluctant to […]
With the conflict in Ukraine escalating by the hour, social media has become a key element in raising awareness, and connecting Russian and Ukranian citizens, along with the rest of the world, to real-time updates on the unfolding situation. But that just became harder, at least for Russian users, with the Russian Government restricting access […]