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Google to Roll Out Anti-Disinformation Campaign in Some EU Countries
Date: August 25, 2022
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Google’s Jigsaw subsidiary will launch a campaign next week to tackle disinformation in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic about Ukrainian refugees based on research by psychologists at two British universities. Working with Jigsaw, the psychologists from the universities of Cambridge and Bristol have produced 90-second clips designed to “inoculate”...
Young Adults With Disabilities Find Community on Social Media
Date: August 24, 2022
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) – Frustrated by what they felt were misperceptions of people with disabilities, Logan Kelble began posting dance videos on TikTok and bold, colorful fashion and makeup looks on Instagram – often with their feeding tube on full display. Kelble, a 22-year-old living in West Virginia who uses they/them pronouns, said sharing...
South Africa’s ‘wild West’ WhatsApp Groups Fuel Racism, Surveillance
Date: April 8, 2022
(Corrects details of Kisten’s adoptive parents in paragraph two) By Kim Harrisberg DURBAN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -When South African content manager Happiness Kisten chased her family’s escaped puppy up the road in the early hours of the morning in her Durban suburb, she did not realise she was being watched. But when Kisten, a Black...
Musk Takes 9% Stake in Twitter to Become Top Shareholder
Date: April 4, 2022
By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) – Tesla Inc top boss Elon Musk revealed a 9.2% stake in Twitter Inc, worth nearly $3 billion, making him the micro-blogging site’s largest shareholder and triggering a more than 25% rise in the company’s shares. Musk’s move comes close on the heels of his tweet that he was giving a...
Social Media Interoperability Project Bluesky Names First Employees
Date: March 31, 2022
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) – Bluesky, a company funded by Twitter Inc to develop a new operating standard for social media, on Thursday will name its first three employees, more than two years after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey first announced the initiative, according to a blog post seen by Reuters. Bluesky is working to build...
5 Social Media Myths and Misconceptions
Date: March 8, 2022
By Gerard Murnaghan, General Manager & Vice President of Sprout Social From goldfish having a three-second memory span to the first US President George Washington being fitted with wooden teeth, we are constantly surrounded by myths and misconceptions. Although they exist almost everywhere, they’re especially common in and among topics that people feel familiar with....