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• Twitter’s new verification policy will drop in January 2021

  Twitter is planning to launch a new account policy in 2021. This will include a fresh verification process, as well as a way to highlight bots and accounts of the deceased. The social networking company said that there are plenty of useful bots and services on the platform. But ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Twitter flagged 300,000 tweets for election misinformation

  A little over a week after the US election, Twitter has revealed it has labeled over 300,000 tweets as election misinformation ...

  • Mix

• Twitter confirms Holocaust denial is banned on its platform, too

  Twitter today followed Facebook's lead in confirming that yes, it will remove any post on the site that denies or distorts the Holocaust. Specifically, it will remove "attempts to deny or diminish" any violent events on the platform. Unlike Facebook, Twitter didn't make a policy ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Twitter will soon call you out for retweeting articles you haven't actually read

  Back in June, Twitter began testing a feature that would prompt users to read an article before they retweet it. Because, you know, that's something everyone should be doing. Now the test is rolling out to everyone --and it's probably one of the smartest things the company has done ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Russia's most notorious troll farm reportedly used deepfakes to push a fake news outlet on Facebook

  Facebook and Twitter say they've removed a network of accounts behind a fake news outlet run by fictitious journalists with ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• New algorithm can identify misogyny on Twitter

  Researchers from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have developed an algorithm that detects tweets ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Twitter's new API encourages devs to craft powerful third-party apps and useful bots

  Twitter's had a rocky relationship with third-party developers creating apps on top of the service. Over the years, it has introduced limitations for apps such as the active number of tokens and the number of actions (you know, tweets, retweets, likes, and DMs) within a time frame, ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Twitter begins labeling state-affiliated media and government officials

  In the age of social media, Twitter is one of the primary ways governments and politicians speak to their constituents--and how they can potentially spread propaganda. Following a similar move by Facebook, Twitter will soon begin to label accounts strongly associated with governments. Twitter ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Study: Instagram's algorithm favored Trump over Biden

  The Tech Transparency Report (TTP) found that Instagram pushed searches about Joe Biden towards negative hashtags, but blocked ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Prosecutors claim to have caught teenage mastermind behind Twitter hack

  An investigation has allegedly turned up the perpetrators of the July 16 Twitter hack. The apparent mastermind is a Florida ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Algorithm reveals which new emoji Twitter users most desire

  Researchers from the Haslam College of Business and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville are tracking the most requested ...

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Twitter says this new app for copying others' timelines violates its rules — but it may live on

  If you've ever wanted to know what someone else's Twitter timeline is like, you'd have to replicate their 'following' list, ...

  • Ivan Mehta