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• Twitter will de-list, not delete politicians' bannable tweets of 'public interest'

  Twitter revealed today it will be adding a special label to certain tweets -- namely those that violate Twitter's terms of service, but which somehow serve public interest by remaining up. To be clear, Twitter's been leaving such tweets up for quite some time -- now it's just managed ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter's simplified policies won't help fix its underlying abuse problem

  Twitter has updated, reorganized, and shortened its rules to make it clear for users to understand what is and isn't acceptable ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Meet Karen Wickre, the editor who helped Twitter and Google find their voice

  We often think of tech companies as faceless platforms; social networks where we imprint our personalities, empty documents we fill, and conduits for communicating. But tech giants do have their own voices, carefully crafted by editors, designers, and product developers. Karen ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Why Snapchat’s new gender swap feature is problematic for many trans people

  You’ve probably seen it all over your social media timelines and stories this week — friends using Snapchat’s new gender-bending filter to create uncanny and slightly creepy versions of themselves as men, women, and babies. https://twitter.com/AberasturiAaron/status/1127613264400080897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1127613264400080897&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fsnapchat-gender-swap-filter%2F https://twitter.com/MikeQReports/status/1128274239402934273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1128274239402934273&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2Farticle%2Fsnapchat-gender-swap-filter%2F After ...

  • Georgina Ustik

• Twitter tears into Delta for its tone-deaf anti-union, pro-video game poster

  Twitter is not amused by Delta's bizarre posters, urging its employees to invest in video game consoles rather than a union. ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Elon says Tesla will field 1M fully autonomous robo-taxis by 2020 – AI experts call BS

  Elon Musk, the PT Barnum of tech, is currently getting a ration of ridicule from some of the world's foremost leading AI experts over his ridiculous claim that Tesla will field a million fully autonomous cars by 2020. https://twitter.com/kaifulee/status/1126238951960993792 Musk, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• What your favorite YouTubers did before they got famous, according to that viral Twitter meme

  A Twitter meme has people revealing their job history -- YouTubers included. So what did famous 'Tubers do before they hit ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Here's what Democratic presidential hopefuls say about AI on Twitter (not much)

  In the era of Trumpian politics the public forum is no longer the evening news or the morning paper: it's Twitter. We decided to see which politicians were embracing the platform to discuss what we feel will be one of the most important issues of their potential presidency: artificial ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Notre Dame fire sparks Twitter conspiracy theories

  Various commenters on Twitter are using the burning of the beautiful, historic Notre Dame cathedral to further a number of ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Scientists are studying your tweets and it's not always ethical

  Who do you think reads your social media posts? You might assume that only your followers see your tweets and status updates — but ...

  • Casey Fiesler

• This tool judges your Twitter for subconscious gender bias

  Proporti.onl works by estimating the gender distribution of Twitter followers and follows based on their profile descriptions ...

  • Cara Curtis

• How to get Twitter's new 'Lights out' dark mode on iOS

  Twitter had a dark mode but now it's rolling out a darker mode called lights out for iOS that has true black background instead ...

  • Ivan Mehta