As the coronavirus spread, two social media communities drifted apart
On Feb. 11, 2020, the World Health Organization put a name to the mysterious respiratory disease spreading with alarming speed around the globe: COVID-19.
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On Feb. 11, 2020, the World Health Organization put a name to the mysterious respiratory disease spreading with alarming speed around the globe: COVID-19.
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Parenting communities on Facebook were subject to a powerful misinformation campaign early in the COVID-19 pandemic that pulled them closer to extreme communities and their misinformation, according to a new study published ...
Jan 3, 2022
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The audio on the otherwise shaky body camera footage is unusually clear. As police officers search a handcuffed man who moments before had fired a shot inside a pizza parlor, an officer asks him why he was there. The man ...
Nov 13, 2020
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In 2002, Verizon was the first to launch a 3G network in the U.S., during a time when the BlackBerry was the top smartphone to own and we were five years away from the arrival of the iPhone.
Oct 25, 2021
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Users typically react to social media outages with angry tirades and barbed jokes. But researchers suggest that this lack of social media access offers a glimpse into the importance of social media not just as a tool to socialize ...
May 4, 2022
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The social networking platform Reddit relies on volunteer moderators to prevent the site from being overrun by problematic content—including hate speech—and ensure that it remains appealing for users. Though uncompensated, ...
Jun 1, 2022
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A UCL study across nine countries shows smartphones are more than devices we use, they're 'the place where we live' and swap for close contact with others.
May 11, 2021
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In light of Twitter's new ownership, University of California, Davis, experts weigh in on what the recent changes could mean for social media, news distribution and communications in general.
Dec 8, 2022
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The millions of people throughout the world living off the electrical grids have a starkly different idea of what a technological marvel looks like. For people desperate for electricity, a reliable and sustainable power source ...
Nov 28, 2022
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An international research team has designed a deep learning system able to detect natural disasters using images posted on social media. The researchers applied computer vision tools that, once trained using 1.7 million photographs, ...
Jun 28, 2023
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