U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) questioned tech company executives about how Russian-affiliated entities used social media to spread disinformation during the 2016 presidential election at a Senate judiciary...
As an opinion writer, I’m fully aware that people who read my columns are not in any way obligated to agree with them. That’s kind of the point of this desk: Through voicing our own opinions, we columnists...
Solely based on tweets, an application developed by Northwestern professors and students is reported to predict people’s voting preferences with an 80 percent accuracy.
TweetCast is an online program...
Glamorous photos, cute pets, “dank memes” and updates from friends — those four categories compose about 80 percent of the content I see on Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram. Occasionally,...
Throughout the course of this school year, there’s been a number of events and issues that have created controversy both within the Northwestern community and on the national scale of college campuses....
