Switzerland, Kazakhstan, and Armenia have joined Russia, China and South Korea to file a lawsuit against Facebook, Google, Twitter and Yandex …
Here’s why the Trump vs Bezos spat could be serious
Trump has decided to pick a fight with the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos. The president begun tweeting …
How ethno- and gender-specific social media communities interact with mainstream news
The new report from the Knight Foundation is mainly focused on Twitter, but essentially looks into questions of how represented …
Hey Facebook, where’s your mates at?
In the Zuckermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, Facebook’s Silicon Valley counterparts are distancing themselves, and that’s more significant than …
People were bullies before technology happened, it’s just more visible now
The prime minister of the UK recently stood at the dispatch box and introduced to the floor of parliament the dangers …
We must share responsibility with Mark Zuckerberg, and the US must copy GDPR
The pitch of the discussion surrounding Mark Zuckerberg in the jet-wash of the Cambridge Analytica revelations begs attention in and …
Confirmation bias: 6 ways to recognise it and 5 ways to counter it
Much has been made of ‘confirmation bias’, but much less has been made of what it is, how it works, …
First Lady Melania Trump to host tech leaders at White House cyberbullying meeting
The First Lady’s office today confirmed that Melania Trump will host representatives from Amazon, Facebook, Google, Twitter and Snap to …
London Mayor Sadiq Khan reads out racist tweets at SXSW, calls for more to be done
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, while on stage delivering one of the keynote speeches at the Austin-based South by South …
MIT’s false news study: Unpalatable findings and unignorable conclusions
False news is the result of the flaws of the human condition – there might be bots and bad actors …