Those Russian Twitter Bots Didn't Do $#!% in 2016, Says New Study
There is "no evidence" Russian Twitter bots had any meaningful effect pushing voters to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Technology
A Competitor Put the FBI on Haoyang Yu's Trail. The Investigation Didn't Go as Planned.
Federal intelligence agencies ran a sting and dug through the trash of a Chinese American engineer they envisioned as a sophisticated technological spy.
Voices
Elon Musk Is Still Silencing the Journalists He Banned From Twitter
To you, it looks like Musk unblocked journalists like me. It’s an illusion: The truth is that we are still locked out of our accounts.
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in Its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign
Internal documents show Twitter whitelisted CENTCOM accounts that were then used to run its online influence campaign abroad.
Voices
Who Cares Whether Elon Musk Is CEO of Twitter? He OWNS It.
In capitalism, managers aren’t in charge. They’re well-compensated employees.
Emboldened Right-Wing Activists Spread Lies About Rep. Katie Porter on Twitter
Video of Rep. Katie Porter calling out right-wing activists for falsely accusing LGBTQ+ Americans of being pedophiles was misleadingly edited to accuse her of condoning pedophilia.
Elon Musk’s Growing Purge of His Twitter Critics — at the Behest of the Far Right
The anarchist website It’s Going Down has no idea why its account was suspended. It had never tweeted about Elon Musk’s private jet.
Voices
Elon Musk Is Taking Aim at Journalists. I’m One of Them.
The tweet — and the journalism — that got me suspended from Twitter.
The Coronavirus Crisis
Covid Disinformation Doctor Wants to Help Elon Musk Do Medical Fact-Checks on Twitter
Convicted U.S. Capitol insurrectionist Simone Gold offered her vaccine disinformation group America’s Frontline Doctors for the job.
How Elon Musk Says He Catches Leakers at His Companies
Musk has boasted of entrapping a Tesla leaker by watermarking emails, and he is threatening any dissidents still at Twitter.