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Pro-Moscow voices tried to steer Ohio train disaster debate
By: David Klepper | AP
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — Soon after a train derailed and spilled toxic chemicals in Ohio last month, anonymous pro-Russian accounts started spreading misleading claims and anti-American propaganda about it on… Read More
![Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/gettyimages-1240422158-762c1ac9c6d0477d84e606df12a6c580d7305260-scaled-e1657383493597-900x422.jpg)
Elon Musk says he won’t buy Twitter
By: Shannon Bond | NPR
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Updated July 8, 2022 at 6:05 PM ET WASHINGTON, D.C. (NPR) — Elon Musk wants to break off his agreement to buy Twitter. In a letter to the company, filed… Read More
![Facebook's thumbs-up "Like" logo is shown on a sign at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ap_20218853064128-da93c6dbb66e23a65819f00857c8db2e72d0ffc9-900x422.jpg)
Top Facebook Official: Our Aim Is To Make Lying On the Platform ‘More Difficult’
By: Ashish Valentine | NPR
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Facebook’s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said that Facebook is working harder than ever to counteract efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.
![President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at limiting the federal legal protections that shield social media companies from liability.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ap_20148697760093-c1adc4421360a33623564359b1ac0b1dfdf01bce-e1590700173926-900x422.jpg)
Stung By Twitter, Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies
By: Bobby Allyn | NPR
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President Trump signs an executive order aimed at limiting the broad legal protections enjoyed by social media companies days after Twitter fact-checked two of his tweets.
![President Trump, who uses Twitter as his primary form of communicating, has long accused Facebook and Twitter of censoring conservative views.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/ap_20143644258750-2ccc21a4779108cebb5e74689a282fcf7265ba0d-scaled-e1590592497872-900x422.jpg)
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Social Media After Twitter Adds Warning On His Tweets
By: Avie Schneider | NPR
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Tensions between President Trump and Twitter escalate as he threatens to “strongly regulate” or shut down social media platforms, which he accuses of silencing conservative viewpoints.
![Twitter will stop running political ads, CEO Jack Dorsey announced Wednesday. Online political ads pose "significant risks to politics," he tweeted.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/gettyimages-1165948313-a26804f0db514d9ff22455bc67157803331e3fec-e1572476658151-900x422.jpg)
Twitter To Halt Political Ads, In Contrast To Facebook
By: Avie Schneider | Shannon Bond | NPR
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CEO Jack Dorsey announced that Twitter will stop running political ads, citing online ads’ “significant risks to politics.” Facebook has been criticized for allowing deceptive political ads.
![Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in March. He blames big tech for using "exploitative and addictive practices in order to get us to spend more time on their platform."](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/ap_19068812040609-2a57afcc3586dd61082cb07cbcfdd37eae637711-e1565815534441-900x422.jpg)
Senator Pushes Bill To Curb ‘Exploitative And Addictive’ Social Media Practices
By: Tim Mak | NPR
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The legislation by a freshman Republican senator would prohibit features like auto-play and infinite scrolling, used by social media companies to keep users on their platform longer.
![The reasons for why Americans and Canadians choose to tweet differently is difficult to determine.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/dsc5108-2e7bfd9e89ca19a582eb5e15082e066395992918-e1543874899965-900x422.jpg)
Study Shows Americans Are Meaner On Twitter Than Canadians
By: Cameron Jenkins | NPR
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Canadian Twitter may truly be a nicer place. Researcher Bryor Snefjella says Canadians tend to tweet more positive words compared to their American counterparts.
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Obama, The Free Nugget Guy, Among Most Retweeted In 2017
By: Associated Press
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NEW YORK (AP) — What do a former U.S. president, LeBron James and a guy who really, really likes chicken nuggets have in common? They all made the biggest splash… Read More