Social Media
We Cannot Rely on Billionaires to Create Necessary Guardrails on Social...
Nothing makes the case for public ownership of online public spaces like a billionaire proposing to buy one.
By Katrina vanden Heuvel*
May 3, 2022
“The most...
PayPal shuts accounts of anti-war publications Consortium News and MintPress News
By Kevin Reed
4 May 2022
Over the past week, the online payments company PayPal has launched a censorship campaign against independent and left-wing publishers who...
New McCarthyism in the West
White House makes “strategic decision” to wage war on unflattering words about NATO
By Rick Rozoff
January 29, 2022
n all seriousness, the U.S. government may not...
Julian Assange has a stroke in Belmarsh prison: Fiancée blames extreme...
Dec 11, 2021
Julian Assange has had a stroke in Belmarsh Prison, his fiancee Stella Moris revealed last night.
The WikiLeaks publisher, 50, who is being held...
The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full...
A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As...
Newly released documents expose how US intelligence meddled in Venezuelan elections...
By Kit Klarenberg
1 Nov, 2021
America’s interference in the electoral process in Venezuela is laid bare in a series of files that reveal how Washington provided...
This Is the Newest Front in Anti-Vaxxers’ War on Instagram Misinfo...
And they’re using these latest techniques to draw followers into other far-right movements.
By Kiera Butler
October 4, 2021
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the...
120 politicians, journalists, and artists sign letter urging Merkel to confront...
Jul 12, 2021
Over a hundred people from German politics, media, and art have called on their chancellor to confront Joe Biden during an upcoming...
Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize...
By SIMON SHUSTER/KYIV, UKRAINE
and BILLY PERRIGO/LONDON
January 7, 2021
photo: Maxim Dondyuk for TIME
The snow had just melted on the streets of Kyiv when...
Israel-Palestine: How social media was used and abused
As ceasefire agreed, tech giants come under spotlight over censorship, disinformation and manipulation concerns from past two weeks
By Rayhan Uddin
21 May 2021
During the recent violence...