News has broken that Twitter has permanently banned the accounts of well-known conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones and Infowars …
Tech Giants (Minus Google) Have Their Day on Capitol Hill
Yesterday, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey sat before the Senate Intelligence Committee to testify on how …
Facebook’s Historic Rout Puts Zuckerberg, Tech Industry on Notice
On Wednesday, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) suffered the biggest single-day drop in value a company has ever experienced. Share prices tumbled …
Social media crypto-bans are sparking international lawsuits
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 …
Memes help get millennials talking about mental health
Mental health has been taboo for decades, but in the last couple of years the rate of depression has grown …
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 …
Murky methods: social media’s initial anti-terrorism efforts
As governmental pressure mounts on social media companies to rid their platforms of terrorist content, initial AI methods are producing …