Twitter and Facebook have been the President's megaphone throughout his term, but both companies have said that he will not be able to use their platforms if he continues to break the rules. Therefore, to support the study of civil unrest from Twitter, we present the Civil Unrest on Twitter (CUT) dataset: a col-lection of 4,381 tweets with annotations for. Tweets cover a wide range of topics, and identifying those directly relevant to a protest can be challenging. The effect of the suspension of Mr Trump's Facebook account, at least until the end of his term, also remains to be seen. A challenge to studying civil unrest in social media is nding it. XRVision said the article was false, and it has since been taken down. His source: An article by The Washington Times conservative newspaper claimed the facial recognition company XRVision identified some rioters as part of the anti-fascist movement. They were masquerading as Trump supporters and in fact, were members of the violent terrorist group antifa." And our traditional news outlets - our cable outlets, Fox News, for example, amplifying blatant disinformation," said Duke University public policy professor Phil Napoli, who researches social media regulation.įlorida congressman and staunch Trump ally Matt Gaetz, for instance, said in Congress on Thursday: "Some of the people who breached the Capitol today were not Trump supporters. It's a problem with our actual elected officials being direct disseminators of disinformation. "It's far more than just a social media problem.
But the issue goes beyond social media to the entire industry of fake news, said researchers, who also blame politicians for adding fuel to the fire by directly spreading disinformation.