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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
If manners maketh the man, then what is Donald Trump?
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 13.4.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politeness, politics, social media, spelling, Twitter
Summary | One can dislike Donald Trump for many reasons, but for the author one of the main reasons is his overuse of capitalization in his Twitter posts as well as his carelessness (that he mixes up p's and q's). This carelessness translates directly into his general rudeness, his inaptitude for diplomacy, and the paradox in defending old values by spitting on political correctness which is technically just plain old politeness.
Image Description | Image of Donald Trump with his hands in front of his face and a portrait of the author.
Image Tags | hand(s), male(s)
Twitter plans 'completely new approach to abuse'
Newspaper | USA Today
Date | 8.2.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | politeness, Twitter
Summary | Twitter is now trying to combat trolling again because the general tenor of bad language on the platform is repelling investors such as Disney. Twitter's market value is tumbling but the company is scheduled to start profiting in 2017. New features have been set in place so that users can not only block other users but block them from tweeting about oneself, too. Other features are 'safe' searches and filtering 'low-quality' comments (just profanities) out.
Image Description | Portrait of Twitter CEO.
Image Tags | male(s)
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