Science, Technology, and Social Media

Twitter Suspended A Medical Doctor For Citing COVID Data. He Says There’s More To The Story

Twitter’s Site Integrity team determined that Dr. Andrew Bostom, a medical doctor and former academic at Brown University, was inappropriately…

4 years ago

After Two Years Of Shortage, Tech Companies Grapple With Chip Surplus

After two years of global chip shortages sent prices for electronics skyrocketing, companies are grappling with the consequences of an…

4 years ago

Democratic Lawmaker Deletes Tweet About COVID-19 After Elon Musk Fact-Check

Democrat Rep. Ted Lieu of California deleted a tweet falsely claiming that COVID-19 was a leading cause of death for…

4 years ago

FBI Assigned Personnel To ‘Look’ For ‘Violations’ Of Twitter’s Own Policies, Docs Reveal

FBI personnel reportedly received assignments to “look” for “violations” of Twitter policy, which one former executive at the social media…

4 years ago

One Month Before Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Twitter Execs And Journalists War-Gamed An Eerily Similar Scenario

Twitter and Meta executives, as well as journalists from a variety of mainstream media outlets, participated in a training excercise…

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Twitter Users Vote For Elon Musk To Step Down As CEO

Twitter users voted for owner and CEO Elon Musk to step down from his leadership role by a 15-point margin…

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Eight indicted for $114 million fraud scheme: How Social Media is Used for Misinformation

Morale of the story?  Be careful who you follow & listen to in social media HOUSTON - A federal grand jury…

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Biden Regulator Fires Warning Shot At Musk’s Twitter, Tech Companies

Samuel Levine, director of the consumer protection bureau at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), warned companies such as Twitter that…

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Books’ “Boiling Cauldron: Cybersecurity Trends, Threats, And Predictions For 2023” in Forbes reads more like a Cauldron of Propaganda

The Forbes piece Boiling Cauldron: Cybersecurity Trends, Threats, And Predictions For 2023 by Chuck Brooks is an interesting read, but reads more…

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‘Slippery Slope’: Internal Docs Show Just One Twitter Employee Raising ‘Serious’ Free-Speech Concerns Over Trump Ban

In the immediate aftermath of Jan. 6, a junior staffer at Twitter was the only employee that appeared to express…

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