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Twitter Users Blocked by Trump File Lawsuit
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 11.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | law, politics, Twitter
Summary | President Donald Trump is being sued for blocking users who are American citizens on Twitter on the grounds of violating the First Amendment. Twitter is like a modern-day town hall which the president has chosen to use and he cannot expell people from a public forum. Legally, the case is not very straightforward. Different experts disagree.
Image Description | Donald Trump waving while walking away from an aircraft.
Image Tags | male(s)
Twitter's Passion Politics
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politics, research/study, Twitter
Summary | In a study analyzing political discourse on Twitter, the researchers found that Republicans tend to get more retweets when they use emotional-moral language than Democrats do. This also rang true when looking at the presidential candidates: Donald Trump could impress far more people by using emotional language than Hillary Clinton. Ms Clinton was interestingly far further below the Democratic average retweet rate for emotional tweets.
Image Description | Illustration of a man blowing into the fire in a tablet.
Image Tags | male(s), tablet
Like Father Like Son, Using Twitter as a Foil To Skewer Political Foes
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 30.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politics, Twitter
Summary | Both President Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. like to use Twitter to control the media narrative about the Trump administration. When the newspapers print a story that they do not like, they respond to it on Twitter. They claim that many readers also take to Twitter to get their news when they feel that the traditional media outlets are not reporting an a neutral enough manner.
Image Description | Donald Trump Jr. taking a picture on his smartphone.
Image Tags | male(s), smartphone
Less Tweeting, Lawyers Beg. ‘Covfefe,’ the President Says
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 31.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politics, Twitter
Summary | President Trump has begged by his advisers to refrain from Tweeting, now his lawyers are advising him to do the same. He has shown that he is capable of not Tweeting on his trip to the Middle East and Europe which lasted nine days without a single Tweet. Now he is back and sent out a Tweet containing the mysterious term "covfefe". His advisers have previously said that they try to keep him busy for 12-15 hours a day so he does not Tweet.
Image Description | A reflection of President Trump on a polished wooden table.
Image Tags | male(s)
Bizarre tweet, weird explanation
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 1.6.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politics, Twitter
Summary | President Trump's latest Tweet seems to be interrupted mid-sentence featuring a mistyped word: "covfefe". The news media have been reporting about covfefe for hours with millions of people cracking jokes about it on Twitter and other social media. This alleged mistake (which was taken down after five hours) managed to dominate the political discourse in the US rather than any actual pressing issues like the Presidents possible ties to Russia.
Image Description | Sean Spicer at a press conference and Donald Trumps Twitter feed.
Image Tags | male(s), Twitter
A hunt for militants at a key location: the Internet
Newspaper | Los Angeles Times
Date | 6.5.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | Facebook, law, texting, threat, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube
Summary | The EU's police organization as well as the US government are targeting IS material online in their battle against terrorism. Attempts to intercept communication via encrypted instant messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have failed. The IS also uploads video and other content to YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. These social media platforms report to have deleted hundreds of thousands of entries linken to the IS.
Image Description | Portrait of a high profile IS member.
Image Tags | male(s)
He Tweeted About Chinese Government Corruption. Twitter Suspended His Account.
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 26.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, law, privacy, Twitter
Summary | A Chinese billionaire has publically denuciated Chinese government officials on Twitter by posting images of documents that evidence corruption. His account was suspended by Twitter for a few hours because the shared documents contained personal information which Twitter usually flags.
Image Description | Portrait of Guo Wengui.
Image Tags | male(s)
Donald Trump Threatens Ted Cruz’s Wife, Eliciting Angry Retort
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 23.3.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | hashtags, misunderstanding, politics, Twitter
Summary | Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have started a public feud on Twitter over their spouses. Trump thinks that Cruz has used footage of Melania Trump modeling nude for GQ magazine in a commercial against Trump. Trump then threatened to reveal secrets about Heidi Cruz. It turned out the anti-Trump advertisement was not made or paid for by Cruz and Cruz shamed Trump via Twitter for threatening his wife with the hashtag #classless.
Image Description | Image of Ted Cruz speaking with his wife Heidi in the background.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s)
What Happened to Who?
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 8.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | abbreviations, grammar, language threat, politics, Twitter
Summary | More and more politicians have begun replacing the relative pronoun "who" with "that" in sentences like ''people that come with a legal visa and overstay''. Although some dictionaries say this is an acceptable for, the New York Times' style sheet does not condone using "that" instead of "who". It denies the mentioned persons their humanity. This trend is unsurprising considering that our communication is increasingly happening on platforms like Twitter that only allow 140 characters so that we invent loads of abbreviations like "LOL" and "TTYL".
Image Description | Artwork copying Edvard Munch's "The Scream" and a few high-profile Tweets with spelling mistakes.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), Twitter
The Week in Tech: Facebook Live, a More Civil Reddit and Yahoo’s Odd Deal-Making
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 9.4.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, cyberbullying, Facebook, marketing, politeness, Twitter
Summary | Reddit has for the first time in its existence enabled users to block other users from commenting. This enables censorship of less desirable opinions. Twitter landed the exclusive deal to live stream a football game on their platform, a deal Facebook was initially after since they are better known for their LiveStream service than Twitter. This is a high-profile marketing campaign for Twitter. Also, Yahoo is trying to sell itself.
Image Description | An image of a smartphone showing a livestreamed interview.
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone
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