List of Social Media articles
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a press conference at United Nations headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2022. America Is Still Losing the Information War
Washington urgently needs a 21st-century communication strategy.
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Earthquake survivors living in tent cities in Turkey charge their phones. Turkey Tests Elon Musk’s Grasp of Twitter
The deadly earthquake has forced the billionaire to face his biggest test of Twitter's global responsibility thus far—but it won’t be his last.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attend a town hall meeting. Modi Is Muzzling Big Tech
Silicon Valley has spent years courting India, but its companies face an increasingly tricky censorship minefield in the world’s largest democracy.
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A young man holding a phone casts a shadow as he walks by an ad for social media company TikTok in Berlin. What TikTok Has on You
The social media app’s data collection practices are not unlike its competitors’, but its links to China add a sinister layer to the debate.
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An illustration shows icons for social media platforms Mastodon, Koo, and Post falling over a descending Twitter bird icon. Après Twitter, the Deluge?
The social network is global, but what comes next may not be.
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An illustration shows the Twitter logo displayed on a mobile phone with Elon Musk in the background on Nov. 19. What We Lose if We Lose Twitter
Twitter’s destruction would be a geopolitical catastrophe not only for the United States but also for the democratic world.
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Elon Musk in Berlin To Save Twitter, Elon Musk Should Fire Himself
Musk’s conflicts of interest make him too dangerous to run the global public sphere.
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Twitter headquarters stands on 10th Street in San Francisco, California. Elon Musk’s Twitter Chaos Is Going to Be Even Worse Overseas
Gutting the workforce will make it harder to protect dissidents and police misinformation.
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A woman walks past election signs ahead of the U.S. midterm elections in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Oct. 28. Chinese Election Meddling Hits the Midterms
Beijing-linked cyberactors seek to sow divisions, discourage Americans from voting, and discredit the election process.
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Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Tehran. Meet Iran’s Gen Z: the Driving Force Behind the Protests
They’re shaking up the aging clerical establishment to a degree not seen since the 1979 revolution.
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monkeypox vaccination Kremlin Claims Monkeypox Could Be a Secret U.S. Bioweapon
Washington needs to stop being a pushover in the global info war.
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Filipino American journalist Maria Ressa gives a statement after posting bail at a regional trial court in Manila on Feb. 14, 2019. Maria Ressa Wants to Save Journalism
The Filipino American journalist and Nobel laureate explains what it’s like to be a government target—and how to safeguard a free press.
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Then-Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gives a press conference. The Fall and Fall of Dmitry Medvedev
How the former Russian president went from geeky technocrat to deranged war hawk.
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A Syrian refugee has coffee and cake in Sweden. Swedengate Was a Lesson in How Easily Misinformation Spreads
One person’s anecdote became a false lesson in national character.
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Young men wearing headphones sit in front of computer screens showing a scene from an online game. Iran’s Leaders Are Scared of the Internet
They should be more scared of shutting it off.
