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Anti-vaccine group moderators said Facebook provided an environment where they could safely offer support to others.
How might the metaverse take over tourism, a sector which up to now has required physical mobility?
A privacy researcher found a ‘code injection’ that allows Instagram and Facebook to collect sensitive user data, including passwords and credit card details.
News organisations employing employing 15-20% of Australian journalists still don’t get paid by Facebook.
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Innovation in the digital space is not necessarily working for people in the global south.
Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp are reframing democracy and the way citizens engage and organise in the digital space.
Antisemitism today does not always appear in the form of traditional hate speech. It manifests in GIFs, memes, vlogs, comments and reactions on social media platforms.
It’s pretty common to find people who are apathetic about their data being harvested and funnelled into unknown corners. But that’s usually because they don’t know what’s at stake.
Who makes money from the metaverse, and how, comes down to what it becomes. And shaping the metaverse is, to a large degree, a matter of definitions.
Frances Haugen, Timnit Gebru and Janneke Parrish are at the forefront of a group of high-profile women calling out big tech. Is there a connection between their gender and their role as whistleblowers?
The metaverse is being hyped as a game-changing virtual platform that will transform our digital lives. But it has some inherent challenges to overcome in order to achieve mass adoption.
An expert had a confusing time trying out Facebook dating.
Elon Musk will need to tackle false information on Twitter, say researchers.
Humour is now part of the modern election campaign. Facebook and TikTok have become joke battlegrounds.
A Meta spokesperson told The Conversation non-news pages had been taken down by mistake. Whistleblower allegations contradict this.
From voting info to risqué quips, this election, online political ads are more pervasive than ever before.
The digital public sphere is constantly evolving, so we need a regulatory framework that helps to structure public discussion, and in turn guide our own public contributions as citizens.
Media ownership has consolidated around a handful of billionaires – and that might not be great for democracy.
We are connecting ourselves, our homes and our workplaces to lots of internet-enabled devices: smartwatches, smart lightbulbs, toasters, fridges … How to keep all their data private?
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