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The platform’s own userbase could get into loggerheads with the company – particularly a certain investor community by the name of WallStreetBets.
There is no shortage of horror stories about online shaming, but it’s not always a bad thing. It comes down to who is doing the shaming and how cohesive the online community is.
Online extremism is a unique challenge – terrorists use methods that can’t be captured by standard content moderation. So, what can we do about it?
With identity the most lucrative commodity social media platforms trade in, their fetishization of authenticity remains ironclad.
In the days of online bulletin board systems, community members decided what was acceptable. Reviving that approach to content moderation offers Big Tech a path to legitimacy as public spaces.
Dumb Money depicts the real-life GameStop short squeeze that fuelled the ‘meme stock’ trend.
Training AI systems with more focused data sets can target them to a specific use.
Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? Maybe. When good ideas prosper, so do replicas, diluting the power of original thinking.
The Chinese-owned app TikTok continues its growth as one of the most popular social media networks. After pandemic health measures were lifted, other social media networks saw a decline in use.
Online extremists may lose followers when removed from mainstream social media, but their remaining supporters can become even more toxic.
Most research on the impact of unplanned pregnancies focuses on mothers. So we turned to Reddit to find out what dads really thought.
Users can place one pixel every five minutes: it’s collaboration at its best, destructive chaos at its worst.
Non-invasive prenatal testing can assess risk for genetic anomalies in a fetus. But interpreting risk levels is highly personal, as a study on Reddit discussions shows.
We have moved beyond burning witches and lynching wrong-doers. So we should also stop shaming unvaccinated people. There are better ways to change behaviour.
To combat online radicalisation, we first need to understand that the picture is rarely as simple as we’d like it to be.
Our research suggests that incel discussion boards are surprisingly diverse. Despite this diversity, we find that incels are united by their hatred of women.
A significant portion of teenagers’ social development happens online. The risks are well known, but the benefits of peer support are often overlooked.
Shares in the gaming chain and other stocks like AMC and BlackBerry are soaring once again.
A finance scholar explains what an IPO is, how it works and a new way companies are going public that’s winning the hearts of WallStreetBets Redditors.
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Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
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Graduate Student in Philosophy, Australian National University
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Professor, School of Philosophy, Australian National University
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Lecturer in Social Media, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Work and Employment, University of Southampton
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Honours Student, University of Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Global Politics and Cybersecurity, UCL
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Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
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Horizon Transitional Fellow, University of Nottingham
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Ph.D Student in Computer Science, Stanford University
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Professor of Formal Philosophy / Director of Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen
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Assistant Professor of Information Science, Cornell University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
