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Twitter’s CEO Thinks Elon Musk Is Great at Twitter. These Messages Must Not Have Shown up in His Feed.

Elon Musk attends a Tesla factory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai on January 7.Xinhua/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that he likes “how @elonmusk uses Twitter,” during an interview conducted Tuesday on his company’s platform. Dorsey offered up Telsa CEO Elon Musk in response to a…

How Facebook Screwed Us All

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This essay is the cover story for our March/April issue. (Subscribe here!) Portions of it appeared earlier here and here. A country riven by ethnic tension. Spontaneous protests driven by viral memes. Violence and riots fueled by hateful fake-news posts, often about “terrorism” by marginalized…

Facebook and Twitter Remove Thousands of Accounts Spreading Misinformation From Iran and Russia

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Facebook and Twitter revealed Thursday that they had removed new misinformation campaigns from their platforms tied to Iran. Facebook said it deleted a batch of accounts for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior,” removing 783 pages, groups, and accounts with ties to Iran.…