Twitter Investing $10 Million in MIT Social Media Research Lab

Twitter Investing $10 Million in MIT Social Media Research Lab

Twitter will invest $10 million in the recently launched Laboratory for Social Machines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The cash will be funded over five years, and MIT will have access to the full stream of public tweets through Gnip.

“In a time of growing political polarization and institutional distrust, social networks have the potential to remake the public sphere as a realm where institutions and individuals can come together to understand, debate and act on societal problems,” reads the MIT

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