Social Media
Facebook and Twitter in Goebbels’ role
The last hours and days both journalists and simple citizens in Greece protest accusing Facebook and Twitter of censoring their texts with which they...
Twitter’s discrediting of leaked docs that show UK’s covert activities against...
By Tom Fowdy
24 Feb, 2021
On some platforms, whistleblowing is only considered an acceptable form of journalism when it exposes enemies of the West. Twitter’s...
Facebook says it will stop people viewing or sharing news in...
Decision comes amid standoff between government and tech companies over whether they should pay for news
By Andrew Griffin
Feb. 18, 2021
Facebook will stop allowing people...
Watch Mark Zuckerberg Trash Trump, Pledge to ‘Work With’ Biden in...
by Ilya Tsukanov
Feb.1, 2021
Last month, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram banned Donald Trump from their platforms, with Google, Apple, and Amazon going on to de-platform...
Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia
By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange,
Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
November 25, 2020
photo: Credit: ChocolateLr18. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Since COVID-19 spread to South Asia,...
WHO launches pilot of AI-powered public-access social listening tool
29 January 2021
What is the pilot and why is it important?
If you’ve been following WHO’s infodemic management updates and training courses at any point...
The 24 ways we’re tracked on a regular basis reveal something...
By Kevin Kelly, "The Inevitable"
Jun 28, 2016
photo: Courtesy 20th Century Fox/Dreamworks
The design of the internet of everything, and the nature...
The GameStop fiasco
The GameStop Bubble Is a Lesson in the Absurdity and Uselessness of the Stock Market
By Doug Henwood
Jan.27, 2021
Who knew GameStop would itself become...
Corona-free? How disinformation could be clouding the true pandemic picture in...
By Julia Ilhardt, Giorgio Musto, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro
September 21, 2020
Of the roughly 28.6 million cases of COVID-19 logged by the World Health...
Zuckerberg will permanently depoliticise Facebook following violence organised on platform
By Adam Smith
Jan. 28, 2021
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that the social media company will be reducing the amount of political content on...