social media

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/31/2020
  

  Twitter Has Shut Down Former KKK Leader David Duke's Account

  A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the suspension saying the account has been "permanently suspended for repeated violations of the Twitter Rules on hateful conduct."

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• 7/19/2020
  

  A Historian's Reflections on American Dissent

  by Ralph Young

  At a time like this one longs for a Gandhi or a King to come along and show us the way. Or a Lincoln or a Roosevelt who took up the challenge of leading the United States through existential crises. But I don't see that happening. Not in 2020. Not on the federal level.

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• SOURCE: Lead Stories
  4/27/2020
  

  Fact Check: NO Evidence Presidents Lincoln And Kennedy Were Assassinated For Trying To End Federal Reserve

  There is no evidence that both Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated because they wanted to destroy the Federal Reserve system (which also did not exist in Lincoln's day).   

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  4/13/2020
  

  If You Charge Facts With Bias, Historians Are Guilty

  by John Broich

  How should historians behave in response to an active movement aiming to paint them as partisans seeking points in a zero-sum game?

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11/12/2019
  

  The key to defeating the far right’s online hate

  by Michelle Kelley

  “History provides lessons on how to pit popular culture against Internet hate speech and racist propaganda.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/5/19
  

  Teens are making historical events go viral on TikTok

  The most powerful videos use human beings to personify world actors – such as countries – in major historical events.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  7/3/2019
  

  ‘Uncharted Territory’: For Historians Navigating Online Hate, a Scholarly Association Offers a Map

  The harassment directed toward scholars online isn’t slowing down.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/19/19
  

  Historians Luke Fernandez and Susan Matt ask: Has Technology Made Us Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?

  by Rebecca Onion

  A new book takes a historical look at how tech affects our collective mental state—and somehow, it’s not tedious.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/30/19
  

  A Holocaust Story for the Social Media Generation

  Eva’s Instagram account, based on a diary kept by the real Eva Heyman in 1944, goes live Wednesday afternoon for the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  4/22/19
  

  Resistance can't be tweeted: Social and political change is built on reading

  by Jim Sleeper

  What's the value of liberal education? Without intellectual exploration, we'll never make a better world.

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/20/19
  

  The Story of the Dionne Quintuplets Is a Cautionary Tale for the Age of ‘Kidfluencers’

  by Shelley Wood

  The pitfalls and payoffs of advertising directly to children have consumed psychologists, pediatricians, marketers and anxious parents for the better part of a century, but the ethics of using children and babies for product endorsement has received much less attention.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6-22-18
  

  Social media is the new heart of political protests

  Have America’s protests changed so they rely more on the masses and less on one captivating leader? The answer, some experts say, is yes.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-28-18 (accessed)
  

  Niall Ferguson says we should be alarmed by the polarization associated with social media

  In a fascinating interview he sees dangerous parallels between the birth of the printing press and the establishment off social media.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-15-18
  

  How social media spread a historical lie

  A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.

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• 12-3-17
  

  East Europeans Who Lived Under Communism Know All About Fake News

  by Vlad B. Jecan

  These are some of the lessons they learned.

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• SOURCE: Reddit
  4-27-16
  

  Annette Gordon-Reed subjects herself to Reddit, the “anything-goes” social media website

  Ask Me Anything (AMA), she told them. They complied.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  12-3-13
  

  How Ancient Romans Created Social Media

  by Tom Standage

  And there was no better social media manager back in the day than Marcus Tullius Cicero.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles
  10-27-13
  

  Social Media: It's So First Century BC

  by Tom Standage

  Cicero would have had a Twitter account.

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-3-13
  

  The New Economy of Letters

  by Jill Lepore

  All the noise has silenced the modest, the untenured, and the politically moderate.

• SOURCE: ITV
  7-29-13
  

  Cambridge prof Mary Beard forces apology from Twitter troll

  Television historian and Cambridge professor Mary Beard has forced a Twitter troll to apologise after publicly naming and shaming him.The male Twitter user had sent an obscene message to Professor Beard that she then retweeted to her 42,000 followers, saying she was "not going to be terrorised."...