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SOURCE: The Bulwark
5/16/2023
With the New Twitter, the Right Wing Disinfo is Coming from the Top
by Donald Moynihan
"Musk often refers to himself as moderate or independent, but he routinely treats far-right fringe figures as people worth taking seriously—and, more troublingly, as reliable sources of information."
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SOURCE: Salon
12/30/2022
I'm a History Professor with 139 Followers. Why Did Elon Ban Me From Twitter?
by Kenneth Osgood
(It was because I called him a "bologna face".)
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SOURCE: Politico
11/17/2022
Why Washington Can't (or Won't) Quit Twitter
Tech historian Margaret O'Mara says that the social platform keeps work-addicted (and sometimes gossipy) politicos connected all the time, making it both an emotional and instrumental necessity.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
11/4/2022
#AcademicTwitter Isn't Collapsing – At Least Not Yet
Twitter heavyweight Kevin Kruse says there is a danger that proposed changes to account verification could erode trust on the site, which could make him bail out. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Mark Anthony Neal note many scholars like them have invested too much in their networks to make the decision lightly.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
10/31/2022
Musk: A Vapid Mind Boosted by Wealth and Ego
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
What happens when an unserious person has serious power over public discourse? We must take Musk more seriously than he seems to take anything himself.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/25/2022
Trying to Change Twitter's Content Moderation is Going to Disappoint Elon Musk
by Evelyn Douek
Musk is delusional if he thinks that Twitter can function without moderation. The problem this highlights is the ability of a small number of billionaires to make the decisions that shape the contemporary public sphere.
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SOURCE: Wired
5/2/2021
Josh Hawley’s Virtual Reality
Writer Gilad Edelman says that Josh Hawley's book twists the history of antitrust policy to fit the needs of today's Republican culture war against the social media giants.
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SOURCE: Governing
12/21/2020
Has Twitter Changed How History Will See This Era?
Carole McGranahan, a professor of history and anthropology, says that social media need to be taken seriously as sources of insight into the actions of prominent and anonymous people alike, and need to be preserved as sources.
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SOURCE: Chattanooga Times-Free Press
9/2/2020
Dalton State Professor Takes Heat for Tweets; College Doesn't Plan Discipline
A Dalton State (GA) history professor regrets his word choice in a series of tweets that was publicized by an anonymous user who sought disciplinary action by the college. Seth Weitz insists that he teaches history in the classroom, which involves challenging beliefs held by many of his students.
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SOURCE: Washingtonian
8/24/2020
Are Your Tweets Historic? Meet the Librarians Who Decide.
The Library of Congress's Web Department works to archive tweets and ephemeral websites that are significant to today's society so they are not lost to history.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/12/2020
He’s Sharing the History of Black New York, One Tweet at a Time
Oluwanisola “Sola” Olosunde is an urban planning graduate student whose Twitter feed is a chronicle of the everyday life of Black New York. He helped bring to light a recent viral video of white Queens residents yelling racist abuse at young Black girls during a period of resistance to desegregation in the 1970s.
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SOURCE: Business Insider
7/31/2020
Twitter Has Shut Down Former KKK Leader David Duke's Account
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the suspension saying the account has been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct."
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SOURCE: The Hill
7/29/2020
Social Media's Holocaust Denials Are No 'Mistake' — They're Hate Speech
by Greg Schneider
It’s long past time for all social media companies to reflect on their role in enabling the hate speech proliferating on their platforms.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/11/20
Trump says Pelosi is worst House speaker in history. Twitter remembers Dennis Hastert.
Disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert’s name was trending on Twitter Saturday morning after President Trump suggested “Nancy Pelosi will go down as the absolute worst Speaker of the House in U.S. History!”
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
10/15/19
Academic Twitter's Gender Imbalance
Female academics have about half the followers of men on Twitter and wield otherwise diminished influence there, according to a new study. The analysis pertains to medicine, but women across fields say the findings ring true.
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Updated 11/20/19
Sondland Sings: Here's How Historians Are Responding
What historians are saying, tweeting and retweeting.
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SOURCE: CNN
8/28/19
Bret Stephens launches a foolish Twitter war
by David M. Perry
Being called a bedbug just isn't a big deal. Writing to a provost about the actions of an academic on Twitter, which Stephens said he did because "managers should be aware" how "their people...interact in the world," is the big deal.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
7/3/2019
‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map
The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.
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6/23/19
Karin Wulf on Why History Hashtags on Twitter are Inherently Inclusive
by Aleisha Smith
Dr. Wulf also discusses what she's working on now, the importance of Women Also Know History, and the success of the Black Perspectives blog.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
5/15/19
Tenure, Twitter and Taking Her Board to Task
Historian at U of Minnesota "celebrates" tenure with a scathing critique of her governing board's recent actions against a building-renaming proposal. She says she couldn't have risked these statements without job security.