How to be a Social Media Sleuth
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Journalist Billy Jensen is solving crimes on social media, and he wants you to join him
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Why Did Facebook Take Down a Fact-Check of an Anti-Abortion Video?
Posted in: Culture NewsRight-wing politicians accused the platform of political bias — and Facebook quickly caved
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How Teens on TikTok Drew National Attention to a Teachers’ Labor Issue
Posted in: Culture NewsAfter a 16-year-old's TikTok brought national attention to the threat of a teachers' strike in Clark County, Nevada, the school district and the union came to an agreement
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: The Rolling Stone Interview
Posted in: Culture FeaturesSometimes 280 characters just aren’t enough. The social media mogul takes on his critics — and tries to explain who he really is
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Researchers Retract Widely Cited Fake-News Study
Posted in: Culture NewsA 2018 study claimed that the fake-news problem was a result of short attention spans and an overload of news — but the researchers say it's not that simple
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Who Will Fix Facebook?
Posted in: Politics FeaturesIn its effort to clamp down on fake news, Russian trolls and Nazis, the social media giant has also started banning innocent people, proving again it can’t be trusted to regulate itself
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The Next Social Networks Could Be Brain-to-Brain
Posted in: Culture NewsResearchers have successfully created the world's first "brain-to-brain" network — and they're hoping to bring it out of the labs and onto the Internet
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Can We Be Saved From Facebook?
Posted in: Politics FeaturesThe social media giant has swallowed up the free press, become an unstoppable private spying operation and undermined democracy. Is it too late to stop it?
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Krist Novoselic on How to Stop Fake News Without Congress
Posted in: Politics NewsNirvana bassist and electoral-reform activist writes that citizen investors have the power to stop fake news on social media – even if Congress won't
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Michelle Carter Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter in Text Suicide Case
Posted in: Culture FeaturesJudge convicts 20-year-old for sending texts that encouraged her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself
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