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Podcast: How BuzzFeed Made #TheDress Go Viral
By Jody Avirgan More: Apple Podcasts | ESPN App | RSS Twitter is humming 24 hours a day. Facebook has peak times in the mornings and then a “prime time” in the evening. And the enigmatic Facebook...
View ArticleEveryone’s Still Chasing The Yankees And Red Sox On Facebook And Twitter
The Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets on Twitter as well as in the World Series. The Royals had about 479,000 followers on Twitter as of this morning, 15,000 more than the Mets had — even...
View ArticleEveryone Has Fake Twitter Followers, But Trump Has The Most. Sad!
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View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Corker Uncorked
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Political Twitter Is No Place For Moderates
Twitter has never been a bastion of the Queen’s English, but recent reporting has unearthed a variety of polarizing posts about American politics that are presumed to be of Russian origin, in part...
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The Trouble With Quitting Facebook Is That We Like Facebook
We have now come to bury Facebook, not to praise it. In the past few weeks, after the revelation that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had obtained the data of more than 50 million Facebook users to...
View ArticleCan Conservatives Ever Trust A Tech Industry Staffed Mostly By Liberals?
Welcome to Secret Identity, our regular column on identity and its role in politics and policy. Prominent conservatives, including activists, members of Congress and President Trump himself, are...
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Which 2020 Candidates Have The Most In Common … On Twitter?
The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates use Twitter like an earlier generation of politicians may have used a soapbox: to announce policy plans, solicit donations, marshal their supporters and...
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Is There A Problem With How The Media Covers Elizabeth Warren?
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarahf (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): In recent months, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has come a long way...
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Could Social Alienation Among Some Trump Supporters Help Explain Why Polls...
Donald Trump was once again underestimated by the polls. On the one hand, this polling error is fairly normal. We’re not talking about huge polling misses, and the polls still “called” the election...
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Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Upheld Its Trump Ban, But It’s Little More Than...
You may have already heard that on Wednesday Facebook’s oversight board upheld the site’s decision to suspend former President Donald Trump’s account, at least for the time being. That’s a noteworthy...
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How Trump’s Removal From Social Media Could Affect His Grasp On The GOP
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week Facebook said last month that it plans to suspend Donald Trump for at least the next two years, which, coupled with his...
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Why Twitter Is Unlikely To Become The ‘Digital Town Square’ Elon Musk Envisions
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View ArticlePolitics Podcast: Is Social Media Turning Us Into Political Extremists?
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View ArticleWhy Misinformation Spreads So Quickly On Social Media
What effect is social media having on our politics and, for that matter, society more broadly? According to critics, we’re living through an unregulated era of social media that will one day look as...
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Why ‘Kidfluencers’ Have So Few Protections — Even As Americans Support...
Social Media Why 'Kidfluencers' Have So Few Protections — Even As Americans Support Regulating The Industry By Zoha Qamar Jan. 3, 2023, at 11:33 AM JoJo Siwa, now 19 years old, has racked up billions...
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How Did TikTok Bans Go Viral In State Legislatures?
State Legislatures How Did TikTok Bans Go Viral In State Legislatures? The moves come years after former President Donald Trump’s effort to prohibit TikTok fell flat. By Alex Samuels Feb. 22, 2023, at...
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Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That.
Pollapalooza Congress Is Trying To Ban TikTok. Younger Americans Don’t Like That. By Cooper Burton Mar. 31, 2023, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES Welcome to...
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