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In this April 26, 2017, file photo is a Twitter app icon on a mobile phone. 
Social media
Nigerians eagerly await lift of monthslong Twitter ban
A man used his mobile phone to read headline news on Twitter inside an office in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, June 7, 2021.
Social media
Nigeria’s indefinite Twitter ban sounds the alarm on free speech
A box containing stacks of cash with a 50 note stack from New Zealand on top
Top of The World
Hundreds arrested in massive global crime sting
Woman in white dress laughs while talking to woman facing away from camera in red dress
Social media
Twitter’s ban on actor Kangana Ranaut could lead to confrontation with Indian government
Blue background with Facebook and Twitter logo and two blue boxes with "election" and "vote" written on it in white letters
Critical State
Disinformation Wars: Part II
A supporter of President Donald Trump holds a Trump 2020 flag with sun shining through it outside the US Capitol building as they attend pro-Trump marches
Critical State
Disinformation wars: Part I
Social media icons on a window
Science & Technology
How social media has changed society
The Facebook logo and binary cybercodes are seen in this illustration dating to Nov. 26, 2019.
Free speech
Turkey passes ‘draconian’ social media legislation
A Twitter logo seen in front of cyber code
Top of The World
Twitter purges state-backed disinformation accounts; US sanctions ICC staff, Syria
Plumes of smoke rise into the sky over buildings.
Top of The World
As protests against police brutality continue, Twitter sanctions Trump tweet ‘glorifying violence’
Two NASA astronauts in spacesuits in front of a rocket launch pad
Top of The World
NASA, SpaceX to launch rocket; EU, Japan plan huge stimulus efforts; Twitter marks Trump tweets with fact-check label
People look at a visualization on a wall
Elections
Don’t let your vote get stolen — 5 essential reads about disinformation in 2020
Seven men in different military uniforms walk next to military vehicles.
Global Politics
How Twitter and other social media can draw the US into foreign interventions
Two people look at a museum displaying showing a history of Donald Trump's tweets
Technology
Historian: Technology and politics has always been dysfunctional in the US
Twitter bird with Chinese flag colors in a cage.
Media
Crackdown in Beijing: ‘Using Twitter is more dangerous than street demonstrations’
Brazil's President Michel Temer with "FAKE" spelled out behind his head
Global Politics
Brazil fights online misinformation during election season
Green Russian social media post
Conflict
Russian ‘green’ trolls are targeting the US energy sector, House report claims
New artificial-intelligence-enabled algorithms have allowed video editors a whole new array of tools to make fake videos even more believable.
Culture
AI-based fake videos pose the latest threat to what we perceive as reality — and possibly our democracy
young people seated in grass around a cross
Media
Russian bots seize on Parkland shooting to amplify messages
All tweets are part of the presidential record.
Election 2016
Donald Trump’s tweets are now presidential records
April Reign
Media
April Reign is changing the social conversation
Doctor Frankenstein and his monster, depicted here at the Movieland Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Canada, have become a fixture of Halloween lore.
Books
On the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein,’ we look at some possible modern-day monsters in the tech world
President Donald Trump's Twitter account is here to stay.
Media
Twitter says world leaders like Trump have special status
us capitol
Election 2016
Watch live: Social media giants to testify in Senate Russia hearing on disinformation
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Media
Twitter bars ads from RT and Sputnik after concerns of electoral interference
The heated rhetoric between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un shows no signs of abating.
Conflict
What happens if Trump decides to launch a nuclear weapon, and his advisers disagree?
A 3D-printed logo for Twitter is seen in this picture illustration.
Global Politics
Twitter says it won’t take down Trump’s tweet to North Korea
An excerpt from Jomny Sun's book, "everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too."
Books
How to speak like an aliebn — no, that’s not a typo
Youth in Istanbul, Turkey protest the results of a referendum on their president's powers.
Global Politics
Turks vote by a slim margin to expand their president’s powers, and dissent erupts on social media
Environment
Social media has role in drug cartel violence in Mexico
Susan Carland and Waleed Ali arrive ahead of the 2015 GQ Men Of The Year Awards on November 10, 2015 in Sydney, Australia.
Belief
For every hate tweet this woman receives, she’ll donate $1 to charity
Minnesota Vikings running back Matt Asiata
Economics
Trying to predict a bank run, the Bank of England discovers the Minnesota Vikings
Sociology professor Saida Grundy doesn’t start her new job at BU until July 1, but she already finds herself in the middle of a heated debate.
Education
A professor’s tweets lead to a debate on race and free speech
SafeMode conversation with Zeynep
Conflict
8 things we learned about activism in Marco Werman’s conversation with Zeynep Tufekci at SXSW
Birds fly across the sky on a polluted day in Wuhan, Hubei province, on February 16, 2015.
Culture
Where’s the perch? These birds might be flying for longer than they expected
Malaysian cartoonist Zunar's last cartoon tweeted out before his arrest on February 10th in Kuala Lampur. The cartoon condemns Malaysia's judiciary for dismissing opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's final appeal against a sodomy conviction and suggests Prim
Media
Malaysia calls a tweet ‘seditious’ and arrests the cartoonist who posted it
A Kurdish boy with "Kobane" written on his forehead takes part in a celebration in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli, after it was reported that Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian town of Kobani, January 27, 2015.
Culture
In the image war, ISIS takes a hit following Kobane setback
Charlie Hebdo protests
Global Politics
After Charlie Hebdo, what next? Readers weigh in on the long-term effects of the attack
Mohamed was important in Libyan's revolution, helping to defeat and ultimately capture Muammar Gaddafi. His younger brother missed out on Libya's revolution — so he decided to make his own fame by going to Syria to fight in the violent revolution there.
Global Politics
2014 was the year youth protesters found their voice and hacking became an everyday fear
Three women wearing hijab, the headscarf worn by some Muslim women, on a platform in the New York City subway. Australians feared that Muslims on public transportation would be harassed following the Sydney hostage crisis.
Belief
Australians sign up to protect Muslims in public with #illridewithyou campaign
@ShamiWitness account no longer exists on Twitter.
Technology
The man behind a top ISIS Twitter account lives in India
Mexican Ambassador Arturo Sarukhan gives an address in Little Rock, Arkansas Luncheon to celebrate the bicentennial of the Mexican Independence Wars and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution in 2010.
Technology
One of the world’s original digital diplomats says Twitter is an ‘unrivaled tool’ for foreign policy
Alanah Pearce is a game reviewer on a web TV show called Button Bash
Culture
This journalist replies to young boys who send her rape threats on Facebook by telling their mothers
Former CBC personality Jian Ghomeshi in Toronto, March 9, 2014.
Media
How a Canadian radio host’s firing started a global conversation about sexual assault
AC Milan's Michael Essien takes part in a training session at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on March 10, 2014, ahead of a UEFA Champions League match against Atlético Madrid.
Sports
Soccer star Michael Essien doesn’t have Ebola — so who started the rumor that he did?
A Chinese national flag, at center, flies upside down on September 29, 2014. Chinese living in mainland China know very little of the pro-democracy protests taking place in Hong Kong.
Conflict
Hong Kong has grabbed headlines around the world — except in Beijing
Militant Islamist fighters parade on military vehicles along the streets of northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014.
Conflict
Meet the young women of ISIS — on the social web
Twitter map
Global Politics
Canada opens up a new front against Russia — Twitter snark
Deb Roy, Twitter's Chief Media Scientist, thinks we've only seen the beginnings of the disruptions caused by the popular social network.
Environment
If you think Twitter has changed your world, you haven’t seen anything yet
Environment
Twitter’s role in social protests was a surprise to co-founder Biz Stone
Environment
Twitter’s role in social protests was a surprise to co-founder Biz Stone
What about your police?
Conflict & Justice
New York City’s hijacked hashtag launches a global conversation on police brutality
What about your police?
Conflict & Justice
New York City’s hijacked hashtag launches a global conversation on police brutality
A phone displaying a Twitter error message is show in front of the Turkish national flag.
Global Politics
A new player enters Turkey’s social media space
Global Scan
Some wealthy Chinese think slaughtering tigers is a status symbol
Turkey's courts have blocked access to Twitter a little over a week before local elections as Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan battles a corruption scandal.
Global Politics
Twitter schmitter? Turkey’s prime minister vows to block the social media site
Business, Economics and Jobs
Some Latinos at SXSW feel the startup ecosystem leaves them out in the cold
Business, Economics and Jobs
Some Latinos at SXSW feel the startup ecosystem leaves them out in the cold
Carlos Fernandez
Arts, Culture & Media
Spain’s National Police get hip on Twitter and get help from citizens
Janet Ni Shuilleabhain was 18 when she traveled to England for an abortion
Lifestyle & Belief
How tweeting a story of a secret abortion shocked Ireland