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Daily Report: Twitter Makes the News a Little Dumber

June 1, 2017June 2, 2017 Senior Editorbogus story look, conspiracy theories, fake accounts, Farhad Manjoo, New York Times, news dumber, real names, real people, social media, substantive debate, technology columnist, thing, Twitter, wonderful tool

Photo Twitter is where political messaging and disinformation get digested, packaged and picked up for distribution to cable, Facebook and the rest of the world. Credit Ali Asaei If there is one thing to know about Farhad Manjoo, the technology columnist for The New York Times, it is that he uses Twitter. A lot. So if anyone would know a thing or two about what appears on Twitter, it would be Farhad. Photo Now Farhad has come to a conclusion: Twitter is making the news dumber. “The service is…

Tech Roundup: A Busy Week to Come

April 17, 2017April 17, 2017 Senior Editoranalog life, annual developer conference, artificial intelligence, David Streitfeld write, Farhad Manjoo, favorite tech stories, Galaxy S8 smartphone, giant breakthrough, hotel industry, Jacqueline Williams, Katie Benner, new revelations, new technologies, New York Times, New Zealand, online collaboration, quarterly earnings reports, tech companies, Uber

Photo Visitors got a look at the new Samsung smartphones at an event in Moscow last week. Credit Maxim Malinovsky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images It’s shaping up to be a busy week in tech. After something of a lull — there were not many new revelations about Uber and no giant breakthrough in artificial intelligence last week — there is a lot of activity on the horizon. That includes quarterly earnings reports from tech companies such as IBM, Qualcomm and Yahoo this week. Facebook is also holding its annual…