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Twitter Tackles Trolls With Three New Anti-Harassment Features
The company announces changes to timeline and search designed to hide “potentially abusive or low-quality” tweets and a policy update intended to crack down on abusive accounts from repeat offenders.
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Amazon Employees Are Trying To Force The Company To Cut Ad Ties With Breitbart
“The current stance … doesn’t make me feel safe as an Amazon employee,” one Amazon employee wrote in an internal email.
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Here’s What Facebook’s Live Video Filter Bubble Looks Like
When you watch a live screening of an event, it’s free of filters and media bias, right? Nope. Enter the Facebook Live filter bubble.
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Read Apple CEO Tim Cook’s Email To Employees About Trump’s Refugee Ban
“It is not a policy we support,” Cook wrote to Apple employees on Saturday afternoon.
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Apple, Google, Uber, Tesla, And Others React To Trump’s Refugee Ban
IBM, Palantir and Oracle did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Oracle CEO Safra Catz serves on a Trump administration advisory committee as do Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty.
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President Trump’s Official Twitter Account Was Registered To A Personal Gmail Address
The registration of @POTUS to a personal email account raises issues about the security of the Trump administration’s social media accounts.
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The White House Denies That Alex Jones Has Been Offered Press Credentials
“He is not credentialed for the White House,” a White House Deputy Press Secretary told BuzzFeed News.
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The Right Is Building A New Media "Upside Down" To Tell Trump’s Story
Armed with its own set of facts, the right has created a parallel media universe that’s risen all the way with Trump to the White House.
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The Women’s March Had A Demand For Trump: Delete Your Account
Amid chants of “tiny hands / tiny feet / all he does is tweet, tweet, tweet!,” protesters said it’s time for the president to take a Twitter break.
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More Than 200 People Arrested At Trump Inauguration Protests
The 217 people arrested were charged with rioting and will be presented in court on Saturday. Six police officers suffered minor injuries.
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Twitter Reinstates Woman Who Tweeted Screenshots Of Her Trolls’ Abuse
Twitter suspended Alexandra Brodsky’s account after she tweeted the anti-Semitic images trolls sent her.
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Martin Shkreli And The Case For Twitter Transparency
Every suspension enforced by Twitter sets a precedent. Its users deserve to know why.
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Medium’s “Renewed Focus” Left Some Publishers In The Dark
“We’ve heard nothing officially from the company about the future,” Kelley Calkins, co-founder of the Medium publication partner The Establishment, said.
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2016: The Year We Stopped Listening To Big Tech’s Favorite Excuse
For a time, “We’re just a platform” was a handy excuse for the unexpected consequences of Silicon Valley’s most important companies. But this year it stopped working.
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These Are All The Accounts Donald Trump Retweeted During The Campaign
BuzzFeed News analyzed all the accounts Donald Trump retweeted during his presidential campaign. What we found are clues as to whom the president-elect views as a fitting surrogate.
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Proposed NYC Law Would Create A Public Database Of Ride-Hail Sexual Assault Reports
The legislation comes nine months after a BuzzFeed News report on sexual assault and harassment complaints in Uber’s customer service database.
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Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader Richard Spencer
According to Twitter, Spencer was suspended on a technicality: violating a multiple accounts statute. The suspension reversal highlights Twitter’s struggles with policy enforcement in a post-Trump era.
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Trump’s Antagonistic Tweet Tests The Limits of Twitter’s Rules
Twitter declined BuzzFeed News’ request for comment.
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Here’s Where Donald Trump Gets His News
BuzzFeed News analyzed all the links Donald Trump tweeted since he launched his presidential campaign to determine where the president-elect gets his news.
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Twitter Board Member: Twitter Helped Trump Win The Election
BET CEO and Twitter board member Debra Lee also voiced her support for Jack Dorsey during Tuesday’s Breakfast at BuzzFeed event.
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