President Donald Trump delivers a lot of information through Twitter. Here he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, March 2018.
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Networks of keywords are analyzed in Donald Trump’s tweets from 2015 to the present.
Police at the scene of a shooting in Toronto’s Greektown on July 23, 2018. The parents of Faisal Hussain, whose shooting spree left two people dead and 13 injured, say their son had struggled all his life with psychosis and depression, but none of the medications or therapies he tried were able to overcome his mental illness.
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Social media abhors informational vacuums and speed eclipses accuracy. That allows pseudo-experts, agitators and even liars to circulate rumours and poisonous information when big news breaks.
India has become the world leader in selfie-related accidental deaths.
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As authorities crack down on selfies and social media, the underlying causes of conflict and potential to use social media to bring about positive social change are overlooked.
Protesters from the MDC-Alliance march in Harare demanding electoral reforms.
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Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections potentially marks the start of a new order in the country, where the stakes are extremely high.
How much do these Mumbai commuters trust what they’re seeing online?
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Three trends suggest people in less developed nations – who are coming online in greater numbers – use and trust the internet very differently those in more developed economies.
Almost four in 10 millennials spend more time on their smartphones than they do engaging with people in real life.
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As we all become mini publishers, we are losing the interactivity that fosters meaningful and healthy social interaction.
Sign displaying the #metoo and #timesup message at the Women’s March in San Francisco in January, 2018.
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Social media is a great tool for activists campaigning for social justice. But if it is not used with caution it can end up working against them.
Scientists: your social media platforms need you!
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Scientists have never been more needed to challenge division, misinformation and harassment online.
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Croatia lost to France but has won unprecedented public exposure.
Evacuating Corpus Christi, Texas ahead of Hurricane Bret in 1999.
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Many factors can influence people to evacuate or stay in place when disasters threaten. New research using Facebook posts suggests that people with broad social networks are more apt to move.
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Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
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The broader nature of today’s pro-choice movements show that a specific injustice can be a vehicle for highlighting wider social inequalities.
How could we put the same strategy used by Cambridge Analytica to better use?
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Something good could come from the Cambridge Analytica scandal if we used the same data to fix society, rather than profit from it.
The transformative nature of our move to a data-driven economy and society means that any data strategy will have long-lasting effects. That’s why the Canadian government needs to ask the right questions to the right people in its ongoing national consultations.
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The Canadian government is right to hold public consultations on digital and data transformation given how profoundly it affects society at large. But the scope is far too narrow.
Does the Internet bring people together or isolate them?
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Trust is the keystone of the entire Internet system: without it more connection and therefore more commerce. How to restore it?
Platforms for radicalisation?
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Companies, such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft are working together to take down terrorist propaganda.
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Twitter posts and messages on WhatsApp can come back to haunt you, even years later.
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West London group 1011 music group have been banned from making music without police permission.
Shallow hype?
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The news media routinely ‘beats up’ shark stories in search of clicks and profits, according to focus groups and surveys of social media posts.
Children play between tents at a Turkish Red Crescent camp in Syria, May 2018.
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Social media can act as the engine room for public engagement with refugees, allowing people to move beyond ‘I should do something’ to ‘I will take action’.