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Meet The Trump Movement’s Post-Truth, Post-Math Anti–Nate Silver
As the final weeks of the presidential campaign devolve into accusations of conspiracy and fraud, the most talked-about Trump supporter might be a poll-hating Twitter pundit who has no official role with the campaign. Bill Mitchell is here to win the ground game in our hearts.
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Law Enforcement Tracked Activists Using Twitter, Facebook And Instagram Data
The American Civil Liberties Union claims information gathered by social media monitoring company Geofeedia was used by law enforcement to track protests in Ferguson and Baltimore.
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Twitter Says This ISIS Beheading Photo Doesn’t Qualify As Abuse
According to Twitter’s rules, “you may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.”
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90% Of The People Who Took BuzzFeed News’ Survey Say Twitter Didn’t Do Anything When They Reported Abuse
Here’s what more than 2,700 people say about harassment on Twitter.
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“It Only Adds To The Humiliation” — How Twitter Responds To Harassers
2,700 Twitter users told BuzzFeed News about their struggles with abuse on the social network.
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I Let Facebook’s Algorithms Run My Life For Weeks
How I destroyed my feed, annoyed my relatives, and maybe even found true friendship in the process.
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Meet The 15-Year-Old Behind The Proposed Hijab Emoji
More than 500 million people around the world wear headscarves. Rayouf Alhumedhi wants our phones to reflect that.
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A Woman Is Being Harassed On Twitter For Her Thread On 9/11 And Black History
After Elexus Jionde’s 9/11 tweet went viral, a potential Twitter bug disabled threading on the tweetstorm it was meant to introduce, removing crucial context and exposing her to further abuse.
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Apple’s Strategy Is Innovation By A Thousand Tweaks
The iPhone is to make you buy the AirPods which are to make you use Siri to make you keep your MacBook to get you to upgrade your iPhone.
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Donald Trump Supporters See No Signs Of Any Immigration Plan “Softening”
“He reaffirmed it all for me and I really think after all this that the lord is going to do something for Donald,” one supporter told BuzzFeed News.
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Twitter Says This Behavior Doesn’t Qualify As Abuse
According to Twitter’s rules, “you may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.” Update: After media attention, the account in question has been taken down.
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Apple To Unveil New iPhone On September 7
Expect a new dual-camera system, but maybe not a standard headphone jack.
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Twitter Announces Tools That Seem Intended To Curb Harassment
The changes come one week after a BuzzFeed News investigation into Twitter’s decadelong failure to stop abuse.
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Take Our Twitter Harassment Survey
BuzzFeed News is conducting a harassment survey to understand just what happens when abusive tweets are reported to Twitter.
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“A Honeypot For Assholes”: Inside Twitter’s 10-Year Failure To Stop Harassment
For nearly its entire existence, Twitter has not just tolerated abuse and hate speech — it’s virtually been optimized to accommodate it. With public backlash at an all-time high and growth stagnating, what is the platform that declared itself “the free speech wing of the free speech party” to do? BuzzFeed News talks to the people who’ve been trying to figure this out for a decade.
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Sources: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama
The move was conducted in secret, according to well-placed sources.
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The Clinton Campaign Mistook A Bernie Staffer For A Supporter In This “History” Photo
“I think they picked me for very strategic reasons, meaning my headscarf and ethnicity and the fact I’m a woman,” Nida Allam told BuzzFeed News.
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People Are Mad Hillary Was Left Off Some Front Pages After Making History
Front pages of the Chicago Tribune, the Washington Post, and others failed to show an image of the Democratic candidate after she was formally nominated for president.
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Here’s How That Donald Trump Reddit AMA Came Together
Surprisingly easily.
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Forget The RNC, Emojis Are Getting Their Own Convention
Emojicon is coming this November.
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