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  2. Social media as a news source - Wikipedia

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    Social media as a news source is the use of online social media platforms rather than moreover traditional media platforms to obtain news. Just as television turned a nation of people who listened to media content into watchers of media content in the 1950s to the 1980s, the emergence of social media has created a nation of media content ...

  3. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey warns social media algorithms are ...

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    Twitter founder Jack Dorsey warns social media algorithms are draining people of their free will—and Elon Musk agrees with him Christiaan Hetzner June 6, 2024 at 10:12 AM

  4. Blocking of Twitter in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Reacting to the decision, Musk wrote on his Twitter account: "Free speech is the bedrock of democracy and an unelected pseudo-judge in Brazil is destroying it for political purposes." [ 40 ] Shortly after its suspension, Twitter created the "@AlexandreFiles" account, purportedly in order to shed "a light on the abuses of Brazilian law committed ...

  5. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  6. Twitter’s rivals are still standing, and so is X - AOL

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    Elon Musk, X’s billionaire owner, sees the inevitable. If paying brands stay off the platform, denying what used to be Twitter's lifeblood of ad revenue, X is toast.Musk himself has admitted as ...

  7. August 27, 2024 at 6:59 AM. By Gnaneshwar Rajan and Nandita Bose. (Reuters) - Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration had pressured the company to "censor" COVID-19 ...

  8. Twitter usage - Wikipedia

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    While a few news organizations in other parts of the country have live blogged for years, this was the first high-profile case in Connecticut [143] in which Twitter played an important role in keeping those interested in the court proceedings updated with information from the courtroom with the use of Twitter. [144] A second notable example was ...

  9. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...