September 24, 2023

NBC News: Social media famous dentist faces backlash on TikTok after women claim he sent inappropriate messages

NBC News: Social media famous dentist faces backlash on TikTok after women claim he sent inappropriate messages . “A Texas dentist who is known for his brash, edgy humor on social media, where he has hundreds of thousands of followers, has been accused of bullying and sexual harassment by several women who say they received inappropriate messages from his official social media accounts. Kenneth Wilstead, who goes by @DrKennySmiles on Instagram and @DrKennySmilesOfficial on TikTok, often shares his ‘smile makeovers’ on social media.”

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September 14, 2023

Associated Press: Gary Neville and Jill Scott secretly swapped X accounts to shine a light on gender bias in soccer

Associated Press: Gary Neville and Jill Scott secretly swapped X accounts to shine a light on gender bias in soccer. “As one of soccer’s most outspoken commentators, Gary Neville is used to getting abuse from fans. Over the space of five days in May, however, the attacks he received on social media were unlike anything he’d experienced before. For Jill Scott, on the other hand, it was depressingly familiar.”

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September 13, 2023

Media Matters: X is placing ads for brands like the NFL and MLB next to unhinged conspiracy theories about Jewish people and 9/11

Media Matters: X is placing ads for brands like the NFL and MLB next to unhinged conspiracy theories about Jewish people and 9/11 . “X (formerly known as Twitter) has been placing ads for major brands like the NFL, MLB, T-Mobile, and eBay alongside content pushing unhinged conspiracy theories about Jewish people orchestrating the 9/11 attacks.”

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September 2, 2023

Rolling Stone: Elon Musk Wades Deeper into Antisemitic Propaganda

Rolling Stone: Elon Musk Wades Deeper into Antisemitic Propaganda. “On Thursday, a number of accounts began tweeting #BanTheADL, calling on Musk to remove the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) from the site. The ADL is a civil rights organization focused on combating antisemitism and extremism. Momentum for the action seems to have been stirred by a meeting earlier in the week between the ADL’s national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, and Linda Yaccarino, in which the pair discussed how to curb the hate and toxic propaganda that have flourished on X ever since Musk’s takeover last year.”

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August 27, 2023

CBR: Comics Twitter Has Created A Fandom That Doesn’t Understand Comics

CBR: Comics Twitter Has Created A Fandom That Doesn’t Understand Comics . “Twitter, or X as it’s now called, has become the most important advertising tool for the comic industry. Companies like DC Comics and Image use the site to get the news about new books out. A whole ecosystem of fan accounts and podcasts has sprung up around Twitter, where indie creators peddle their wares, and fans and creators interact like never before. However, Comics Twitter is often a cesspool of toxicity and bad takes. In fact, the very nature of Comic Twitter has often been its downfall, and the fans Comic Twitter created have run into some huge problems.”

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August 17, 2023

PsyPost: Low self-esteem and high FOMO are psychological mechanisms that play an important role in trolling, study suggests

PsyPost: Low self-esteem and high FOMO are psychological mechanisms that play an important role in trolling, study suggests. “New psychology research sheds light on why people engage in online trolling behavior, which involves purposely causing conflict and stress on the internet. The findings, published in Psychological Reports, provide evidence that trolling behavior is more common among those with low self-esteem and a high fear of missing out (FOMO).”

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August 14, 2023

La Trobe University: Online trolls impact local council participation

La Trobe University: Online trolls impact local council participation. “A new study, led by La Trobe University researchers, has found that women councillors experience more gender-based (on and off-line) incivility than men across the election campaign and during their first year in office. The study highlights the impact hostility and bullying has on the willingness of women to put their hand up for local elections, with double the number of women than men reporting unwillingness to run in future elections.”

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August 1, 2023

“They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate (Salon)

Salon: “They need us. We don’t need them:” The fall of Twitter is making the trolls and grifters desperate. “The escalation of shock value tactics, on both the right and the pretending-not-to-be-right political classes, are likely rooted in the same cause: The slow motion collapse of Twitter, now rebranded ‘X’ under the leadership of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. While these folks have various outlets, both in the media and social media, ultimately their business model of trolling depends heavily on Twitter.”

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July 28, 2023

Dallas Morning News: Anti-LGBTQ YouTubers trolled a progressive Plano church. It was firebombed weeks later

Dallas Morning News: Anti-LGBTQ YouTubers trolled a progressive Plano church. It was firebombed weeks later. “Weeks before the Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano was damaged in a firebomb attack early Sunday, members of the church welcomed four strangers — one of them carrying a camera — with hugs, smiles and the promise of a judgment-free fellowship. They didn’t immediately know they were being trolled and baited by a group of influencers who frequently take videos of themselves pranking progressives and liberals. The video, titled ‘We acted LGBT at LGBT Church,’ has garnered nearly 200,000 views since it was posted to YouTube on July 12.”

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July 27, 2023

WIRED: It’s Twilight of the Mods for Bluesky and Reddit

WIRED: It’s Twilight of the Mods for Bluesky and Reddit. “THESE ARE STRANGE days for people who care about trust and safety on platforms. Historically, many people have suggested that either more effective central moderation (a platform owner intervening directly in policing the content of the platform) or better decentralized moderation (allowing users to curate their spaces through community-driven moderation) could pave the way to a better social media landscape—or, ideally, some alchemically balanced combo of the two. But, in true Silicon Valley fashion, one platform is centralizing in the worst way possible, while the other is decentralizing catastrophically.”

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July 7, 2023

The Hill: FBI launches national ‘swatting’ database amid rising incidents

The Hill: FBI launches national ‘swatting’ database amid rising incidents. “The FBI is tracking ‘swatting’ incidents in a national database as the dangerous form of prank call becomes more common, the bureau revealed Thursday. Swatting incidents take place when a person calls the police claiming there is a dangerous person, kidnapping or a mass shooting at a house, hoping for police to respond in force.’

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June 27, 2023

Hollywood Reporter: GLAAD, HRC Issue Letter Signed by 250+ Stars Asking Social Platforms to Curb Anti-LGBTQ Hate

Hollywood Reporter: GLAAD, HRC Issue Letter Signed by 250+ Stars Asking Social Platforms to Curb Anti-LGBTQ Hate. “GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign have teamed to issue a public letter signed by more than 250 notable names that urges CEOs of Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to help curb anti-LGBTQ hate on their platforms by better enforcing policies that protect that community.”

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