A first of its kind study into global Twitter activity during heat waves has revealed why social media should be leveraged to spread information about extreme temperatures.
Environment
Apr 24, 2023
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After the May 2020 death of George Floyd, large demonstrations exploded across the United States. Though the killing spurred the protests in that moment, the broader Black Lives Matter movement was fighting against police ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2022
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Messages posted by bots on divisive issues such as Brexit, immigration or climate have far less impact on users' views than those from famous people and influencers, researchers say.
Social Sciences
Feb 18, 2022
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Social media users who view images of healthy foods that have been heavily endorsed with 'likes' are more likely to make healthier food choices, a new study has found.
Social Sciences
Sep 24, 2021
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It's widely believed that social media conspiracy theories are driven by malicious and anonymous "bots" set up by shadowy third parties. But my new research – which examined an extremely successful COVID-19 conspiracy theory—has ...
Social Sciences
Oct 15, 2020
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People who cheat on their spouses are significantly more likely to engage in misconduct in the workplace, according to a study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin published today in the ...
Social Sciences
Jul 30, 2019
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Facebook has unveiled libra, a cryptocurrency that will enable users to make international payments over Messenger and other group platforms like WhatsApp—perhaps from as soon as 2020.
Internet
Jun 20, 2019
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A French court has ordered Facebook to pay 30,000 euros ($34,000) over "abusive" terms-of-use agreements that people had to accept in order to access their social media accounts, the consumer group which filed the lawsuit ...
Internet
Apr 10, 2019
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Researchers from ITMO University report that they have predicted personality features such as gender using data from an online gaming platform. This is one of the first studies of machine learning applied to a large amount ...
Machine learning & AI
Feb 7, 2019
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Slack says it mistakenly deactivated accounts for some of the users of its work-focused messaging service this week as it implemented a system update to comply with U.S. economic sanctions and trade embargoes.
Internet
Dec 22, 2018
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