Platform says 300 accounts carried out 50,000-plus tweets in ‘organised effort to make users think firm has changed content policy’ Banned British far-right figures return within hours of takeover Heaven or hellscape – what will Musk’s Twitter look like? Fears raised over disinformation and hate speech Twitter has been hit by a coordinated trolling campaign …
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Nearly six in 10 teenagers count themselves as daily users of the app yet little is known about the impacts on the brain Read the new Guardian series exploring the increasing power and reach of TikTok In the few years since its launch, TikTok has already altered the face of the social media landscape, attracting …
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If this week’s results show a profit like last quarter’s, the company may at last be on the road to respectability It has 120 million customers, takes $10bn worth of bookings a month, and, it transpired this year, more or less had the French president on speed-dial, doing its bidding. But can Uber turn a …
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Some sites that mediate the sale of hacked data use Reddit-style upvoting systems to weed out scammers and law enforcement Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast When personal data is stolen in a breach, such as the recent high-profile attacks on Optus and Medibank, it often begins a …
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To mark the site’s takeover by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, we present a survey of its most media-friendly moments Twitter has great influence for a social media platform. It has a comparatively modest 230 million users, given that the likes of Instagram, Facebook and TikTok have user bases that run into the billions. …
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Fears have grown that the world’s richest man would remove the social network’s controls on hate speech – but can he really afford to? Elon Musk is not buying Twitter to make more money: he’s doing it to help humanity. In a message to advertisers last week, the world’s richest man said it was important …
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After the astonishing wealth earned during lockdown, investors fear times may never be as good again for Silicon Valley’s giants Last week was a bad time to be a tech billionaire. When the pandemic drove the world online, the founders of Facebook, Google and Microsoft reaped wealth gains described as “pornographic” and cemented their position …
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Techniques which allow the sharing of data whilst keeping it secure may revolutionise fields from healthcare to law enforcement Rachel is a student at a US university who was sexually assaulted on campus. She decided against reporting it (fewer than 10% of survivors do). What she did, however, was register the assault on a website …
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The billionaire owner suggests the platform could have different video game-style modes, including a ‘player versus player’ Elon Musk has indicated that Twitter could be split into different strands where users give their posts content ratings and stage online rows in a specially created space on the platform. The world’s richest man moved to assuage …
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The British photographer said his son could ride the ghost train – but didn’t expect to see him quite so spooked Looking back, Mark Chilvers says he thought the ghost train he put his then six-year-old son Louie on would be a “Scooby-Doo level of scary”. The pair were at a London funfair in the …
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