With the Mister Rogers documentary headed to theaters this summer, it’s important to remember that American hero’s most important lesson: neighbors are good.
At least they can be. Sometimes. It can be a hard truth to swallow, given everything we know…
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Twitter apologises for accidentally blocking New York Times account
Twitter is not new to making glaring mistakes in suspending or blocking the wrong people on the platform.
But this time it’s quite massive.
The social media platform apologised to the New York Times after it blocked its @nytimesworld account for 24 hours after an alleged violation of Twitter’s rules about hateful conduct.
The account had tweeted a story about Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau apologising to indigenous people in a Canadian province. Here’s the tweet in question:
Left out of an apology a decade ago, native people in Newfoundland and Labrador get an apology from Justin Trudeau https://t.co/BRRIUNCVMw
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) November 25, 2017 Read more…
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View More Twitter apologises for accidentally blocking New York Times accountDon’t believe that ‘Aretha Franklin is dead’ tweet
The daily lesson on debunking fake news is from the textbook on verification.
Take this tweet, which went viral early this morning and is still live:
It Is With Sad News That We Announce The Passing Of The Queen Of Soul Aretha Franklin
1942-2017#RipArethaFranklin #ArethaFranklin pic.twitter.com/LPH571dlix— Aretha Franklin (@ArethaFrankIinn) November 21, 2017
Fans on social media were literally freaking out. It didn’t help that the fake Twitter account had the same profile and cover pictures of the official Aretha Franklin one, along with the description and link to her latest album: Read more…
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