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Twitter founder: Trump presidency is product of short attention spans
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 13.9.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, social media, threat, Twitter
Summary | Evan Williams, one of Twitter's founders, claims that Donald Trump's online behavior is showing how social media platforms are making us dumber. Indeed, social networks are based on short attention spans, and they also undermine open-mindedness and our sense of truth. According to Williams, advertising models are to be blamed.
Image Description | Portrait of Donald Trump.
Image Tags | male(s)
Mapped: The London Twitterati's emoji reactions to the general election result were predictably anti-Tory
Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 7.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | The Museum of London displayed a Twitter analysis that shows all the emojis that appeared in political tweets the day after the election. It shows that for example the most popular emoji was the "crying with laughter" face.
Image Description | N/A
Invasion of the troll armies: from Russian Trump supporters to Turkish state stooges
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 6.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | fake news, politics, threat
Summary | Thousands of trolls out there are pretending to be someone else. They spread fake news and write fake texts in exchange of some money. For instance, Russian people were paid by their government in order to pretend to be Trump's supporters. In China, the practice is common; the government pays people to manipulate social media. The article lists other examples such as Russia, Ukraine, Israel, the UK, North and South Korea, and Turkey.
Image Description | Image of military men (their faces has been replaced by thumbs up), image of someone using a laptop, two social media illustrations
Image Tags | computer/laptop, male(s), social media
Jeremy Corbyn on Snapchat: where are the lols, Jezza?
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 10.5.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, Snapchat
Summary | Jeremy Corbyn has been using Snapchat for his campaign, but so far he's mostly been using the same old campaign trail images. In order to win the young vote, he could be doing a lot more. Also, Snapchat shouldn't be used for formality.
Image Description | Collage of 6 of Corbyn's snaps, and screenshot of one of his "dull" snaps displaying a bus emoji
Image Tags | emojis, male(s), Snapchat
The rise and rise of international diplomacy by WhatsApp
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 4.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | politics, privacy, texting, WhatsApp
Summary | WhatsApp diplomacy is a thing: when leaders gather to talk in the same room, they can exchange emojis and other documents to other people without the whole room knowing. WhatsApp is more secure than other government information systems and has been used at the UN and EU headquarters.
Image Description | Photograph of a group of diplomats looking at their phone, screenshot of a WhatsApp chat, photograph of a man holding a phone and a woman standing next to him (both are looking at the phone)
Image Tags | female(s), male(s), smartphone, text, WhatsApp
Merkel says big internet firms 'distort perception': Chancellor demands Facebook and Google make their algorithms public
Newspaper | Mail Online
Date | 28.10.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | Facebook, Google, marketing, politics, privacy
Summary | Merkel wants Facebook and Google to be more transparent and reveal the algorithms that select stories people see. She claimed that those algorithms distort our perception of reality. Internet giants don't agree with that; they said that viewers have access to a wide range of opinions.
Image Description | Photograph of Angela Merket speaking at a conference, photograph of the Facebook logo with the reaction buttons, and Twitter logo.
Image Tags | Facebook, female(s), logo, Twitter
Twitter left off Trump table in spat over Hillary emoji
Newspaper | Metro
Date | 16.12.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics, Twitter
Summary | Because Twitter refused to create a crooked Hillary emoji, the company was left out of a meeting with Donald Trump.
Image Description | N/A
The 'tears of joy' emoji is the worst of all - it's used to gloat about human suffering
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 24.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | The 'tears of joy' emoji is the worst of all emoji; indeed, there is something essentially cruel about this particular emoji. Many times, people use the tears of joy emoji to gloat about something that should be seen as "horrific".
Image Description | Tears of joy emoji, and montage representing Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson
Theresa May did a Facebook Live Q&A and 10,000 people used the 'angry' emoji
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 15.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | Theresa May did a Facebook Live Q&A and the most popular reaction people shared was the angry emoji.
Image Description | N/A
Donald Trump may have won the presidential election but at least you can now get a facepalm emoji on your iPhone
Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 9.11.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, politics
Summary | Trump just won the presidential election, and many people don't know what to say. A picture can paint a thousand words: people can at least use the facepalm emoji to express their feelings.
Image Description | N/A
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