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A number of efforts are underway to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black women used it for communication and community — along with the abuse they received.
“We might have lost our blue checkmark on Twitter, but we’re already verified on Bluesky!”
After all, who would news companies rather trust their revenue to than the guy who calls them a “relentless hatestream”?
“Going silent,” “turning away,” but not leaving-leaving (yet).
“We stopped tweeting from the main @NPR account after they attached that false label to it because each tweet we publish would carry it.”
Access to Twitter’s API has been mostly free to researchers for more than a decade. So how does $210,000 a month sound?
Plus: The trouble with journalists’ involvement in news literacy programs, soft news as a gateway to propaganda, and social media editors between news and marketing.
“That’s one of the things I’ll miss most about running Politwoops: getting a glimpse behind the carefully crafted images that politicians present to the public.”
Identity verification on social platforms used to be a matter of trust and safety. Now for Twitter and Facebook, it’s a new line of revenue.