Party at centre of storm yesterday after false claims in local election campaign on social media platform The Labour party’s ‘blue tick’ marking it as an authentic account has disappeared from its Twitter account. The party was at the centre of a storm yesterday when the social media platform had to attach warnings and ‘context’ […]
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Local elections have no bearing on NHS funding or waiting times – yet Starmer repeats claim that was tagged as dishonest Keir Starmer has again claimed that votes for Labour in next month’s local elections will mean shorter NHS waiting lists – just two days after the same claim was tagged by Twitter with ‘context’ […]
Alan MacLeod’s reporting on the influx of former government employees at TikTok, Meta, Twitter and other social media companies helps define the scope of the U.S. censorship regime.
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24-hour news, smartphones, social media, Simon Speakman Cordall explores how the incessant and diverting streams of news and comment are radicalising us all
Chris Ogden shows how the logical extension of banning the Chinese platform for its data collection would be to clamp down on other forms of social media, including Facebook and Google
Not for the first time, Starmer and Labour claim local elections will affect national policies Keir Starmer has suffered the indignity of corrective action by Twitter after he posted a claim that votes in the local elections next month will affect the NHS. Starmer claimed that voting for Labour would lead to ‘an NHS that […]
For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations.
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Though it’s right to impugn the whims of Elon Musk, the outrage against Twitter’s labeling policy is highly selective.
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Sick of Meta? Things are REALLY gnarly on Nextdoor.
The claims of Dmitry Medvedev denying the existence of Ukraine remove all doubt about the Kremlin's genocidal thinking. But what of its totalitarian methods?