Social media are among the primary sources of news in the U.S. and across the world. Yet users are exposed to content of questionable accuracy, including conspiracy theories, clickbait, hyperpartisan content, pseudo science ...
Internet
Jun 20, 2018
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'Celebrity' Twitter accounts - those with more than 10 million followers - display more bot-like behaviour than users with fewer followers, according to new research.
Computer Sciences
Aug 1, 2017
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Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the most popular social network among US teens, according to a new survey.
Internet
Oct 9, 2013
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A new study examining differences in the language used in nearly 40-million tweets suggests national stereotypes—Canadians tend to be polite and nice while Americans are negative and assertive—are reflected on Twitter, ...
Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2018
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The National Security Agency's website went down Friday and the US spy service known for hacking into computer networks said it was investigating the outage, a spokesperson said.
Internet
Oct 25, 2013
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European space experts said on Friday they had successfully reawakened a fridge-sized robot designed to make the first-ever spacecraft landing on a comet.
Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2014
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Teenagers' nightmarish propensity to post underage party hijinks, flesh-flashing and nasty commentary online have found a dream come true in California, which will soon let them erase their tracks.
Internet
Sep 25, 2013
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Hackers temporarily took over the Twitter account of the Bahraini foreign minister on Saturday, just 10 days after a cyber attack on the official news agency of neighbouring Qatar.
Security
Jun 3, 2017
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Dwelling in a political echo chamber—where you encounter only people who agree with you—is hardly conducive to a healthy democracy.
Social Sciences
Sep 3, 2018
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People tweet about anything and everything, but a new Twitter analysis coauthored by University of Maryland computer scientist Ben Shneiderman shows much of this conversation falls into six distinct patterns or networks.
Internet
Feb 24, 2014
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