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The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office on December 20, 2022 in Culver City, Calif. Congress passed legislation to ban the popular Chinese-owned social media app from most government devices.

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  • Technology

From Twitter chaos to TikTok bans to the metaverse, social media had a rocky 2022

From Facebook's troubled pivot to the metaverse to Twitter's management chaos to industry-wide layoffs, social media companies have had a rocky 2022

December 23, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The parent company of Facebook says bad actors are increasingly using realistic faces generated with artificial intelligence to run social media influence operations.

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  • Technology

AI-generated fake faces have become a hallmark of online influence operations

As artificial intelligence becomes more widely available, bad actors are turning to computer-generated faces in their attempts to manipulate social media networks.

December 15, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Elon Musk while attending a conference in Norway earlier this year. The billionaire new owner of Twitter is releasing information about the company's high-profile moderation decisions.

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  • Technology

Elon Musk is using the Twitter Files to discredit foes and push conspiracy theories

The Twitter CEO's selective release of internal communications largely corroborate what is already known about the messy business of policing a large social network.

December 14, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Facebook parent Meta appears to be more concerned with avoiding "provoking" VIPs than balancing tricky questions of free speech and safety, its oversight board said.

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  • Technology

Facebook's own oversight board slams its special program for VIPs

Oversight board says Facebook parent Meta appears to be more concerned with avoiding "provoking" VIPs and evading accusations of censorship than balancing tricky questions of free speech and safety.

December 06, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Elon Musk says the company is ready to re-launch a verification program designed to ease the app's financial reliance on advertisers, but has yet to provide details.

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  • Business

Elon Musk says Twitter will re-launch its verification program next week

The embattled CEO tweeted Friday that the company will re-launch its paid verification program next week. He says accounts will be manually verified and color coded, but has yet to offer details.

November 25, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has spurred many longtime users to look for alternative social networks.

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  • Technology

Looking to leave Twitter? Here are the social networks seeing new users now

Can a network like Hive Social or Mastodon foster the communities and conversations that thrived on the bird app's good days? It's too soon to know for sure, but many hope the answer is yes.

November 24, 2022
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
A tweet by former President Donald Trump is displayed on a screen during a hearing held by the House Jan. 6 committee on June 9.

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  • Politics

Elon Musk allows Donald Trump back on Twitter

Twitter has become the first mainstream social media platform to reinstate the former president, who was banned from many sites after his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

November 20, 2022
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  • Shannon Bond
The departures of thousands of Twitter workers is raising fears about the stability of the influential social media site under new owner Elon Musk.

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  • Technology

How likely is a complete Twitter meltdown?

Twitter employees who've quit say risks are growing of service outages, glitches and even hacks on the influential social network.

November 18, 2022
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By:
  • Mary Yang and
  • Shannon Bond
This image from the Twitter page of Elon Musk shows Musk entering Twitter headquarters carrying a sink through the lobby area on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022 in San Francisco. Musk posted a video Wednesday showing him strolling into Twitter headquarters ahead of a Friday deadline to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company.

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  • Technology

These are some of the Twitter features users want now that Elon Musk owns it

Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion, and already people are hopeful that new leadership means new capabilities on the app.

October 28, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is about to seal the deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.

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  • Technology

From Tesla to SpaceX, what Elon Musk touches turns to gold. Twitter may be different

Elon Musk brought a sink into Twitter headquarters on Wednesday, in anticipation of owning the social media company by the end of the week.

October 27, 2022
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  • Raquel Maria Dillon
GPB News NPR

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  • National

Video on social media shows a white man grabbing a Black man by the neck in Milwaukee

The white man, 62, says the friend of a Black man, 24, stole a bicycle from his friend's yard. Milwaukee police say they are investigating the incident.

October 18, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
Billionaire Elon Musk's on-again, off-again bid to acquire Twitter advanced this week after he agreed to pay the $44 billion he had originally offered for the social media site.

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  • Technology

Here's what Elon Musk will likely do with Twitter if he buys it

Musk says he'd loosen rules against spreading misinformation, allow former President Donald Trump back on Twitter, shake up the company's business model and find new revenue sources.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters during a reelection campaign rally. Ahead of the first round of voting on Oct. 2, Bolsonaro has baselessly claimed that voting machines will be rigged against him, an echo of former U.S. President Donald Trump's false claims about the 2020 election.

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  • World

Brazilians are about to vote. And they're dealing with familiar viral election lies

As Brazilians head to the polls to vote for president, they're being deluged by a wave of falsehoods that echo Donald Trump's claims of a stolen election.

September 27, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Social media company Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Facebook parent company says it has removed a Russian network pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a Chinese network targeting the U.S. midterm elections.

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  • Technology

Facebook takes down Russian network impersonating European news outlets

Meta says it has disrupted a large Russian network of fake accounts pushing a pro-Kremlin view of the war in Ukraine and a separate Chinese campaign targeting the U.S. midterm elections.

September 27, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
A federal appeals court on Sept. 16 ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter in a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech.

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  • Law

Court rules in favor of Texas law allowing lawsuits against social media companies

A federal appeals court Friday ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies, in a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech.

September 16, 2022
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