Australia's bushfire emergency has sparked an online disinformation campaign "unprecedented" in the country's history, researchers told AFP Friday, with bots deployed to shift blame for the blazes away from climate change.
Environment
Jan 10, 2020
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If not for Twitter, U.S. President Donald Trump would not be in the White House today. True/false? That's for others to judge but it's probably true, say two Australian linguists who have released a paper analysing Trump's ...
Social Sciences
Dec 3, 2019
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A new study from researchers at The University of Manchester investigates the sophisticated network of agents on Twitter who work to distribute fake news during election campaigns.
Political science
Oct 28, 2019
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Four people were killed and another person was missing in landslides and floods on Friday, local officials and news reports said, as Japan was hit by heavy rains just two weeks after a deadly typhoon barrelled through the ...
Environment
Oct 25, 2019
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California firefighters battled through the night to contain a fast-moving wildfire driven by high winds that was threatening to engulf thousands of buildings.
Environment
Oct 24, 2019
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You've probably heard it said before: Twitter is a cesspool. A platform once populated with harmless messages about one's favorite TV shows or happenings about town, Twitter so often devolves into a hotbed of harassment, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 26, 2019
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The linguistic and discursive style of Donald Trump's tweets varied systematically before, during, and after the 2016 presidential campaign, depending on the communicative goals of Trump and his team, according to a study ...
Social Sciences
Sep 25, 2019
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On Oct. 15, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano sparked a firestorm on social media when she asked her Twitter followers to reply "me too" if they had ever been sexually harassed or assaulted. (Social justice activist Tarana Burke ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2019
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New research from The ANU shows Twitter data can be used to give more accurate profit forecasts for companies in the consumer sector.
Economics & Business
Aug 30, 2019
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Ulrika Hedman has followed Swedish journalists' adoption of social media and social network sites (SNS) from 2011. Based on representative surveys and massive data on journalists' use of Twitter, she has analyzed how journalists ...
Social Sciences
Aug 27, 2019
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