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Facebook might rebrand as a ‘metaverse’ company. What does that even mean?

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Post Views: 300 The Verge said that this rebrand (which could happen at the annual AR/VR-focused Facebook Connect conference on Oct. 28) could be related to the company’s ongoing efforts to build out the “metaverse,” defined by Facebook as a “set of virtual spaces where you can create and explore with other people who aren’t…

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Polite warnings are surprisingly good at reducing hate speech on social media

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Post Views: 336 Researchers from NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics had an idea: What if you tracked the followers of accounts that were banned for hate speech, and sent these followers (who also used hate speech in their tweets) a warning about their bad behaviors? Would these users be pressured into changing what…

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Twitter’s fledgling misinformation tool is adding aliases

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Post Views: 371 If you haven’t heard of Birdwatch before, here’s what you missed: Twitter started the program around the beginning of this year, with the goal of allowing users to collaboratively fact-check tweets and combat misinformation by flagging misleading posts and providing notes to give more context. In a thread, the Birdwatch account noted…