Twitter invests $10m in MIT's social media data research

Roland Moore-Colyer
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Laboratory for Social Machines will explore how social data can inform discussions on societal problems

Twitter has invested $10m in the creation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), designed to investigate patterns in interactions formed through ...

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