"The best thing right now is for Twitter to just burn," said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University professor whose research focuses on propaganda and social media. Conspiracy theories and other forms of false information "make their way into Twitter and Facebook and mainstream platforms and that's when regular people see them and they suddenly become viral," Stringhini said. She speculated …
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Three days before Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the world’s richest man tweeted a photo of Bill Gates and used a crude term to make fun of his belly. At times it’s pretty extreme,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University professor who studies social media and who recently assigned Musk’s tweets as reading material for their …
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Three days before Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, the world’s richest man tweeted a photo of Bill Gates and used a crude sexual term to make fun of his belly. At times it’s pretty extreme,” said Jennifer Grygiel, a Syracuse University professor who studies social media and who recently assigned Musk’s tweets as reading material for …
