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Who knew a space agency could go viral?

by Molly Wood
Apr 10, 2019
By using social media, NASA discovered what the public was looking for.
Employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, watch the landing of InSight on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018.
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Your social media posts are likely way more predictable than you think

by Molly Wood
Jan 28, 2019
A new study shows your friends' posts can indicate what you're likely to say on social media.
"If I choose to use one of these platforms and I'm giving it useful information about myself, then our research suggests that, in principle, I'm also giving it useful information about my friends," said Jim Bagrow, a professor at the University of Vermont who led a study about Twitter privacy.
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Would you leave Facebook if you could take all your friends and photos with you?

by Molly Wood
Sep 27, 2018
Tech companies are trying to figure out how to make it easier to move your data.
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A new toolkit to help tech companies be more ethical

by Molly Wood
Sep 4, 2018
Tech giants keep struggling to understand how their platforms affect society. A game designer has a new solution.
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What role should governments play in regulating speech online?

by Molly Wood
Aug 24, 2018
"Many people ... trust these big tech companies frankly more than they do their politicians," Politico's chief technology correspondent says.
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Kids and Tech: Tradeoffs

Tech, data, privacy and time: It's a trade-off, but are we trading too much?

by Molly Wood
Jul 23, 2018
"If I don't understand the trade-off that I'm making, how can I help make decisions for my child?" one marketer asks.
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Twitter is in a big game of "bot or not"

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Jul 13, 2018
The proportion of fake users, or bots, on Twitter may be higher than previously thought.
This photo illustration taken on March 23, 2018 shows Twitter logos on a computer screen in Beijing.
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Black Twitter is a force for activism

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Feb 16, 2018
Feminista Jones on what the social forum has accomplished.
Demonstrators from the Black Lives Matter movement march during a demonstration against the killing of black men by police in the U.S.
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Will Twitter's midlife crisis bring a fancy new CEO?

by Ben Johnson and James Perla
Jul 28, 2015
More on the challenges facing Twitter ahead of its earnings report.
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If you're happy and you know it, write a tweet

by Ben Johnson and Aparna Alluri
Feb 10, 2015
The "hedonometer" is a data-based meter that measures happiness in real time.
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