Social Media
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...
Ten years since WikiLeaks and Assange published the Guantánamo Files
By Oscar Grenfell
30 April 2021
Last week marked a decade since WikiLeaks published a tranche of 779 secret files from the US government’s Guantánamo Bay...
Facebook bans RT’s digital content project Redfish after posts marking end...
30 Apr, 2021
RT’s Redfish, an award-winning Berlin-based digital content project, has had its Facebook page of over 830,000 followers deleted over posts commemorating the...
Cops want stop to social media scrutiny
Fury after Met union urges action to prevent people sharing videos of police
By Bethany Rielly
April 14, 2021
THE Metropolitan Police Federation came under fire today...
Trump teases 2024 run & promises more rallies in interview banned...
31 Mar, 2021
Donald Trump has again teased the prospect of a third run for the presidency in 2024 in a new interview, and promised...