by Kristen Schiele, University of Southern California, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Elon Musk’s recent rebranding of Twitter as X is a step toward the…
by Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Twitter has swapped the fluffy bird that used to symbolize the social media platform…
by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Social media services have generally been free of charge for users, but now, with…
by Jon-Patrick Allem, University of Southern California, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Twitter is ending free access to its application programming interface, or API. An…
by Eric Smalley, The Conversation, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] You would be forgiven for growing numb to the almost daily assault of headlines proclaiming…
by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Twitter’s decision to no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy, quietly posted on the…
by Deion Scott Hawkins, Emerson College [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Before the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland were…
by Anjana Susarla, Michigan State University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security…
by Erik Gordon, University of Michigan [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Elon Musk has finally completed his US$44 billion deal to acquire Twitter and take…
By Kai-Cheng Yang, Indiana University and Filippo Menczer, Indiana University Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer…