(The Root) — The recent fascination with what has come to be known as “black Twitter” continues with the recent creation of a Wikipedia article on the topic. Some have been wary of the very naming of ...
We’ve seen this story before, with the blues, rock and roll, and hip hop: Black people do something white folks find fascinating; it is co-opted and controlled; and finally black people find ...
On Tuesday, Twitter owner Elon Musk slammed the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for contemplating removing its entry on the "Twitter Files Investigation." The billionaire and Tesla CEO accused the ...
Woke Wikipedia users rushed to memorialize Twitter’s decision to briefly suspend a clutch of liberal reporters who the company says violated their terms of service ...
After announcing yesterday that Wikipedia will join other websites in a January 18 blackout to protest the SOPA piracy bill, founder Jimmy Wales has explained his reasoning further to fend off ...
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales clapped back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday for censoring critics of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, the day before the country’s highly contested ...
Mainstream media has been swirling with stories about the recently created @congressedits Twitter bot, ranging from hilarious pokes at congressional staffers’ taste in ice cream to the scandalous and ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Back in November 2017, Twitter announced that it was pausing all account verifications, closing the public ...
After 16 years of online addiction, I went cold turkey: no social media, no YouTube, no Netflix, no fun on the Internet of any kind. But with my heaviest habit stopped, my poor plastic brain was ...
Twitter has spent years and millions of dollars fighting falsehoods with a now well-worn arsenal—fact-checks and warning labels and context labels and algorithmic tweaks and bans and bans on the ...