The office of the diplomatic advisor to the Prime Minister, Francesco Talò, in an official statement expresses its regret "for the deception received from an impostor who passed himself off as the president of the African Union Commission". The phone call arrived on 18 September, as part of Giorgia Meloni's contacts, on the occasion of the meeting of the General Assembly of [...]
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US authorities have accused two Twitter employees and a staff member of the Saudi Arabian royal family of spying for Riyadh. The Federal Bureau of Investigation filed a suit Wednesday in San Francisco, accusing the three men of "acting as agents" for Saudi Arabia. According to the FBI, the [...]
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It would not have been the Russians to make the perfect storm on Twitter against the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella, with the hashtag #matterelladimettiti, at least so it is thought. The element that gave the "warning" was that the 300 Italian profiles who launched the attack on Mattarella lit up at the same time. On 3 August, the Courier [...]
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A U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday that a tweet from President Donald Trump did not inadvertently disclose the Central Intelligence Agency's top-secret program to help rebel groups in Syria. The lawsuit, filed by the New York Times, focused on news published in 2017 by Reuters, The Washington Post and [...]
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With nearly 33 million Twitter followers, US President Donald Trump could easily be described as the most social-friendly American leader of our century. It is clear that Trump is using Twitter to communicate directly with his followers by evading the mainstream media, which he considers contradictory to his policies. However, according to [...]
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Walt Disney, MTV, NBC and other large publishers will produce video, live, news and entertainment content for Twitter. The announcement came during the '2018 Digital Content NewFronts' event held in New York. Precisely on this occasion, thirty new agreements were communicated with shows, televisions, magazines, to convey content on the Twitter platform [...]
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According to new research, Russian Twitter accounts have spread messages in support of the opposition Labor Party in an effort to influence last year's UK election. Research from Swansea University and the Sunday Times found that around 6.500 automated accounts sent messages praising opposition Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn […]
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Fake news spreads almost at the speed of light to put it mildly. This is what happens on Twitter, according to the results of a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published in the journal Science. The researchers analyzed the spread of true and false news through Twitter between 2006 and 2007. The […]
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Twitter decided to study Russian interference during the 2016 U.S. election, and said today it will notify some of its users that they have been exposed to content generated by an alleged Russian propaganda service. The company said it would email 677.775 people in the US who followed, [...]
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A Twitter engineer, asking for anonymity, in a video shot by Project Veritas revealed that the social network would read and archive everything that users write online, including deleted posts and direct messages, i.e. those that users exchange in private . The video published in recent days shows the engineer, employee [...]
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Twitter is trying everything to combat the crisis of users recorded recently and after the doubling of the characters available, a new modification for Twitter, which facilitates the management of threads. In fact, the process of creating a thread has been simplified by adding an extra button in the composition, so that people can [...]
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Twitter reported in a statement that it would begin a trial with a random sample of users that allowed them to send tweets of up to 280 characters, doubling the existing limit, in most languages around the world. The San Francisco-based company presented itself with its short messages [...]
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