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Fierce Pharma: Eli Lilly restarts ‘limited’ Twitter posting and advertising, continues to assess social media strategy

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Fierce Pharma: Eli Lilly restarts ‘limited’ Twitter posting and advertising, continues to assess social media strategy. “Eli Lilly’s self-imposed exile from Twitter is now over. Six months after the fake account furor drove it from the site, the Big Pharma has begun to tentatively reengage with the platform, resuming limited posting and advertising on its renamed corporate account while continuing to evaluate its strategy.”

The Verge: Twitter is adding crowdsourced fact checks to images

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The Verge: Twitter is adding crowdsourced fact checks to images. “Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly after a fake image went viral claiming to show an ‘explosion’ near the Pentagon.”

Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech By Blue-Check Users: Report (The Daily Beast)

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The Daily Beast: Twitter Fails to Remove Hate Speech By Blue-Check Users: Report. “Twitter is failing to remove 99 percent of hate speech posted by Twitter Blue users, new research has found, and instead may be boosting paid accounts that spew racism and homophobia. Researchers at the Center For Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) flagged hate speech to the company in tweets from 100 Twitter Blue subscribers. Four days later, they say, 99 percent of the tweets were still up and none of the accounts had been removed.”

Reuters: Dutch parliament chair calls on Twitter to prevent threatening messages on platform

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Reuters: Dutch parliament chair calls on Twitter to prevent threatening messages on platform. “The chairwoman of the Dutch parliament on Wednesday called on Twitter to act to stop threats being broadcast on the social media platform against the country’s lawmakers.”

Politico: Russia’s Wagner Group uses Twitter and Facebook to hunt new recruits

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Politico: Russia’s Wagner Group uses Twitter and Facebook to hunt new recruits. “Russia’s paramilitary Wagner Group has been using Twitter and Facebook to recruit medics, drone operators and even psychologists to aid fighting operations, including in Ukraine, according to exclusive research seen by POLITICO. Job ads for Wagner, which has mercenaries operating in several countries, have reached nearly 120,000 views on the two social media platforms over the last ten months, according to Logically, a U.K. disinformation-focused research group.”

Axios: Twitter only worth 33% of what Musk-led investors paid, Fidelity says

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Axios: Twitter only worth 33% of what Musk-led investors paid, Fidelity says . “In Fidelity’s latest Twitter markdown, the financial services giant estimated in a monthly report of portfolio valuations that the company is now worth about $15 billion, or 33% of the October purchase price, per a Bloomberg assessment Tuesday.”

Mashable: Popular anti-troll tool Block Party shuts down

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Mashable: Popular anti-troll tool Block Party shuts down. “Last week, Twitter launched a new API subscription tier that was supposedly meant for ‘startups.’ Instead of drawing startups in, though, it’s already claiming victims. Block Party, a popular anti-harassment tool, has now gone on ‘indefinite hiatus.'”

University of Portsmouth: New research uses AI to analyse propaganda tweets on Iranian nuclear deal

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University of Portsmouth: New research uses AI to analyse propaganda tweets on Iranian nuclear deal. “Thousands of state-sponsored propaganda tweets on the Iranian nuclear deal have been analysed using artificial intelligence by experts at the University of Portsmouth.”

Sidney Morning Herald: Anti-Voice accounts on Twitter ‘abusive with impunity’ by using false identities

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Sidney Morning Herald: Anti-Voice accounts on Twitter ‘abusive with impunity’ by using false identities. “The most active Twitter accounts opposing the Indigenous Voice to parliament are people using false identities who are stoking an increasingly divisive online campaign, rather than computerised ‘bots’, an analysis reveals.”

The Hill: Ocasio-Cortez says fake Twitter account impersonating her

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The Hill: Ocasio-Cortez says fake Twitter account impersonating her. “The account, which has amassed nearly 100,000 followers and is dubbed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Press Release (parody), has tweeted a number of times with false or misleading statements while claiming to be the congresswoman from New York.”

Yale: New AI platform aims to improve disaster response

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Yale: New AI platform aims to improve disaster response. “Picture this: a magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes San Francisco in the dead of night. As local and federal officials scramble to assess the damage and plan a response, they have a sophisticated new dashboard in front of them with real-time, on-the-ground data—informed by commercial satellite imagery and Tweets, with analysis by artificial intelligence.”

CNBC: Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech

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CNBC: Tech layoffs ravage the teams that fight online misinformation and hate speech. “Across the tech industry, as companies tighten their belts and impose hefty layoffs to address macroeconomic pressures and slowing revenue growth, wide swaths of people tasked with protecting the internet’s most-populous playgrounds are being shown the exits. The cuts come at a time of increased cyberbullying, which has been linked to higher rates of adolescent self-harm, and as the spread of misinformation and violent content collides with the exploding use of artificial intelligence.”

Reuters: Judge Throws Out Shareholder Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over Twitter Buyout

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Reuters: Judge Throws Out Shareholder Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over Twitter Buyout. “A judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated Twitter shareholders several times last year in the course of buying the social media company for $44 billion.”

PressGazette: Twitter’s shrinking role as traffic source for news publishers revealed

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PressGazette: Twitter’s shrinking role as traffic source for news publishers revealed. “Twitter’s role as a traffic referral source to publishers’ sites has been shrinking. Data from publisher analytics firm Chartbeat shows that Twitter referral traffic, 1.9% of all traffic in April 2018 to 1,350 publisher sites included in the analysis, had fallen to 1.2% five years later in April this year.”

New York TImes: How Twitter Shrank Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis

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New York Times: How Twitter Shrank Elon Musk and Ron DeSantis. “…for all its influence, social media is still downstream of other institutions — universities, newspapers, television channels, movie studios, other internet platforms. Twitter is real life, but only through its relationship to other realities; it doesn’t have the capacity to be a hub of discourse, news gathering or entertainment on its own. And many of Musk’s difficulties as the Twitter C.E.O. have reflected a simple overestimation of social media’s inherent authority and influence.”