Social media platform articles
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Study shows a tale of two social media platforms for Donald Trump
Truth Social was more effective at driving news attention toward Donald Trump during the 2022 midterm election cycle than Twitter (now known as X) was during the 2016 primary election season, a pattern driven mostly by partisan media on the left and the right, according to a new paper by a University at Buffalo communication researcher.
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Freeing TikTok: Ending Chinese control of the social media platform would enhance free speech
It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.
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Australia vs. X: Social Media Platform Challenges Bishop Stabbing Content Takedown
X challenges Australian regulator's demand to remove tweets about a Sydney bishop's stabbing, claiming it breached Australian law and would contest an "unlawful and dangerous approach" legally.