In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Twitter behind UK journo’s suspension over Olympic complaint [update]
US broadcaster NBC’s coverage of the Olympic Games has been controversial enough to cause a social uproar all of its own. Then UK journalist…
Another athlete expelled from Olympics after racist tweet
Just days after Greek triple jumper Voula Papachristou was cut from her country’s Olympic team for posting a racist tweet, another athlete has been…
Is there really a solution to racism on Twitter?
In the 1700s radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat used the power of his pen and his influence in the media as a vessel to…
Understanding how politicians use Twitter: a case study
Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have fundamentally changed the nature of political discussion. They allow the common person to add his…
