It’s pretty normal to walk through a university campus and see students sitting together, yet ignoring each other for their…
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Here are two common ways of thinking about democracy in the online era. First, the internet is a liberation technology and will…
The big idea People who consume a lot of news on social media are more likely to be skeptical of…
It’s been a week since Elon Musk strode into the Twitter headquarters with a kitchen sink, signalling his official takeover of the…
Elon Musk announced that “the bird is freed” when his US$44 billion acquisition of Twitter officially closed on Oct. 27, 2022.…
WhatsApp is officially launching Communities today, with Mark Zuckerberg confirming the update has begun rolling out. We first heard the…
Tech platforms use recommender algorithms to control society’s key resource: attention. With these algorithms they can quietly demote or hide certain…
A quick look at some TikTok stats shows more than 38,000 posts under the hashtag #Autism, with more than 200…
It took seven months, a dropped lawsuit and $44 billion dollars to get Twitter into the hands of its new…
In early October, the Pew Research Center released a report called “The Role of Alternative Social Media in the News…