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Twitter has apologised for allowing adverts to be micro-targeted at certain users such as neo-Nazis, homophobes and other hate groups. The BBC discovered the issue and that prompted the tech […]
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Saudi Arabia has imprisoned and tortured activists, religious leaders, and journalists for voicing dissent online. This reflects a growing worldwide trend in the use of physical repression to censor online […]
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On December 20, 2019 Twitter announced the removal of 88,000 accounts managed by Smaat, a digital marketing company based in Saudi Arabia, and attributed thousands of these accounts to involvement […]
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The US charity said the perpetrators had posted flashing and strobing Gifs and videos in November. The Epilepsy Foundation’s own Twitter handle and hashtag had been used in order to target people […]
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In a fresh analysis of the state of âdisinformationâ in the run-up to the 2019 UK General Election, researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford have found […]
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âA very #MerryChristmasâ â to all,â Margrethe Vestager, Europeâs top antitrust enforcer, wrote on Facebook last December. Her post attracted 144 âlikes.â A few months later, as an experiment, researchers paid a […]
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Major news outlets are doing a better job of rebutting President Donald Trumpâs falsehoods on Twitter than they were earlier this year but there is still room for improvement, according […]