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16 votes
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Donald Trump expected to try to halt US TikTok ban, allies say
12 votes -
Taylor Swift fans are leaving X for Bluesky after Donald Trump’s US election
53 votes -
Ezra Klein reminisces with Jon Stewart about right wing US media, social media, the rise of Donald Trump, cancel culture and where to go from here
12 votes -
Redding property manager fired after posting on Reddit that he used ex-tenant mail-in ballots to vote for Donald Trump
52 votes -
Filipino authorities are using Facebook to target young activists
8 votes -
X overtakes WeChat in spreading Chinese disinformation about the 2024 US presidential elections
37 votes -
China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate
25 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump’s post of fake Taylor Swift endorsement is his latest embrace of AI-generated images
36 votes -
Digital apartheid in Gaza: Unjust content moderation at the request of Israel’s cyber unit
14 votes -
Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk [as it was not approved by the European Commission]
11 votes -
The far right has moved online, where its voice is more dangerous than ever
40 votes -
What to know about the proposed Kids Online Safety Act and its chances of passing in the US Congress
20 votes -
Facebook and Instagram's algorithmic favoritism towards extremist parties revealed in new study of political ads in Germany
27 votes -
Danish government makes new pact with youth organisations to protect children in the EU from the addictive design of social media and tech giants' business models
8 votes -
US House GOP leaders vow to block online privacy bill over intraparty pushback
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The antiquity to alt-right pipeline (on Twitter)
10 votes -
New study found YouTube's recommendation algorithm boosted right-wing content in the run-up to Finland's 2024 elections
33 votes -
Disappearing ink, fake polls and voter fraud: EU fears as Russian propaganda ads target Euro elections
14 votes -
Elon Musk on racism, bailing out Donald Trump, hate speech, and more - The Don Lemon Show (full interview)
29 votes -
YouTube blocks access to CBC's The Fifth Estate story on killing of B.C. Sikh activist at India's demand
50 votes -
The mystery social media account schooling US Congress on how to do its job
39 votes -
Texas is right. The tech giants need to be regulated.
10 votes -
Donald Trump trials - Georgia defendant Kenneth Chesebro caught lying to Michigan prosecutors about alt Twitter account
21 votes -
A US-sanctioned oligarch ran pro-Kremlin ads on Facebook—again
18 votes -
Europeans in service of Russian propaganda machine
10 votes -
Twitter, Elon Musk and the Indigo Blob
19 votes -
Who firebombed FriendlyJordies?
8 votes -
As the midterm elections approach in the US, does Finland have the answer to fake news?
6 votes -
Corporate "MLK" tweets listed next to their donations to GOP voter suppression efforts
@Judd Legum: 1. This will be a thread of corporations that are "honoring" MLK Jr on Twitter today but donated to the @NRSC in the last year, supporting a caucus that is filibustering voting rights and a chair (@SenRickScott) who voted to overturn the last electionFollow along if interested
23 votes -
“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself
21 votes -
Envy
15 votes -
How some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
14 votes -
Chinese police are making threatening video calls to dissidents abroad, telling them not to criticise Xi Jinping
30 votes -
Finns aghast that Donald Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media
10 votes -
US President Donald Trump claims ‘Noble Prize’ tweets were sarcastic then shares deepfake Biden video in barrage of conspiracy-laden tweets
15 votes -
Investigation prior to UK General Election finds 88% of Tory social media ads misleading compared to 0% for Labour
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Sebastian Gorka at the center of Rose Garden ruckus in US following Donad Trump event
5 votes -
PSA: Disinformation and the over-representation of false flag events on social media.
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on...
I've noticed lately that on certain social media websites, particularly Reddit and Facebook, there has been an uptick in articles about fake hate crimes and false rape reports. The comments on these articles especially fan the flames on the subjects of homophobia, racism, and sexism. While the articles themselves are still noteworthy and deserving of attention, the amount of attention that they've been receiving has been disproportionately high (especially when considering how fairly unknown the individuals involved are) and the discourse on those articles particularly divisive.
On top of that, there are clear disinformation campaigns going on to attack current Democratic presidential candidates in the U.S. It seems pretty clear that we're having a repeat of the last presidential election, with outside parties stoking the flames of discrimination and disinformation on social media in order to further ideological divisions, and the consumers of that media readily falling for it.
I would caution readers to be mindful of the shifting representation of historically controversial or contentious topics moving forward. Even if the articles themselves are solidly factual, take note of how frequently you're seeing these articles, whether or not they're known to be contentious topics, and how they're affecting online discourse.
In short: make sure that you can still smell bullshit even when it's dressed up in pretty little facts.
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Message for Maduro? Rubio tweets image of bloody Gaddafi, killed after US intervened
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'Somebody is going to be shot': Top bureaucrat says partisan mudslinging has gone too far
15 votes -
After mainstream exposure, QAnon is starting to fracture
16 votes