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
Tech, Data and Algorithms
UK police forces are under scrutiny for their lack of transparency regarding the use of harmful technologies known to exacerbate racist policing
Despite years of asking for the former special advisor’s WhatsApp messages under Freedom of Information laws, the Cabinet Office may never have asked Dominic Cummings for them. Why? Iain Overton reports
Isabel Oakeshott's exposé comes in the wake of repeated rejections by the Government of every Freedom of Information request on the disclosure of ministers' use of WhatsApp for official business, reports Iain Overton
New research has found that non-consensual sharing of intimate images bear many of the hallmarks of domestic abuse
In a dialogue with ChatGPT, Iain Overton explores whether truth and meaning can really be left to machines
Elon Musk’s selective leaks suggested Twitter ‘censored’ Conservatives, but evidence shows they refused to boost a right-wing disinformation campaign around Hunter Biden’s laptop
UK-US relations would be harmed by the details of Johnson’s summit with the now-disgraced data firm, an independent regulator has concluded
Dr David Robert Grimes looks at the partisan polarisation and obsession with scientists rather than science that makes us prone to medical misinformation and anti-vaccine propaganda
Emma De Souza reports on how countries are tackling the rise in misinformation through the legal and education systems