Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his seat to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington in April 2018 about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election.
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Many tech titans say they can self-regulate online hate speech and extremism with artificial intelligence, but can they?
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It’s worth noting some key points about copyright and ownership before signing up to social media sites like Instagram.
A signed copy of Marcel Proust’s ‘Du cote de chez Swann’ . Proust highlighted France’s bitter debate about the Dreyfus affair.
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Proust’s masterpiece À La Recherche du Temps Perdu reveals how people’s irrational beliefs become entrenched.
Manchester City star Benjamin Mendy has been told to use social media less by coach Pep Guardialoa.
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Social media is key when it comes to connecting clubs with fans and building a brand identity. But with great power, comes great responsibility.
They may look similar, but online trolls act differently.
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Some behaviors might help tell propaganda-spewing trolls apart from regular internet users, but the main protection is for people to think more critically about online information.
Angela Williamson was sacked by Cricket Australia because of tweets criticising Tasmanian government policy.
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Williamson’s sacking over a tweet reveals not only problems with social media policies and freedom of speech, but the pervasive masculinity of sporting organisations.
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.
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‘Fake news’ is a meaningless term that is used for anti-democratic propaganda. We should all stop using it.
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.
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.
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Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
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The television presenter and the scientist are having an argument about God on Twitter, and Morgan is getting a lot of stick. That’s not fair.
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Twitter posts and messages on WhatsApp can come back to haunt you, even years later.
Enough?
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A snap poll intended to boost the Turkish president’s power has stirred up online opposition to his increasing authoritarianism.
Populists like Donald Trump have used Twitter to his enormous political advantage. But the popular social media platform is failing to bring to heel the bots and fake accounts that can and have interfered with democracy.
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Bots and fake accounts on Twitter helped sway the U.S. presidential election in 2016. Here’s how the social media platform has purportedly tried, and failed, to combat threats to democracy.
The president uses his Twitter feed to make official announcements.
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A Twitter account used for official purposes is a public forum protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court has ruled.
South African opposition party leader, Mmusi Maimane, addressing the media. A viable media helps promote political accountability.
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The sustainability of the news media is a precondition for good journalism in the public interest. Thus, economic questions should form part of discussions of press freedom.
Information warfare in cyberspace could replace reason and reality with rage and fantasy.
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Simulation models show just how effectively fake news and propaganda can shift opinions.
Many people are turned away by abusive language on online news sites but new research reveals that only 15 per cent of comments are “nasty.”
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Are online trolls as bad as we think? New research reveals that most online news comments contribute positively to the conversation.