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Published in: Home: Feature‘Forget about Elon Musk’: How to save the world from Big TechIn an openDemocracy live discussion, Shoshana Zuboff and Susie Alegre warned that, left unchecked, Big Tech can...
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Published in: Live discussionsCan we stop Big Tech getting inside our heads?Social media and e-commerce giants are influencing what we buy, how we vote and who we love. Now the war in Ukraine...
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Published in: Home: OpinionCulture wars: what is identity politics?For some, it’s a left-wing adoption of neoliberalism. For others, it’s authoritarian. But it’s really just about...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureEst-ce que TikTok peut aider les jeunes LGBT au Togo à trouver une communauté ?Les réseaux sociaux ont offert de nouveaux espaces à des gens à travers le monde pour s’exprimer et trouver des...
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Published in: 50.50: FeatureCan TikTok help young LGBT people in Togo find community?
Social media has offered people around the world new spaces to express themselves and find allies. But anti-LGBT...
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Published in: 50.50: NewsYouTube closes African channel promoting televangelist’s violent ‘conversion therapy’In response to our enquiries about TB Joshua’s controversial exorcisms, YouTube terminated his channel. Facebook...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: FeatureCan social media help in the fight against sexual harassment in Egypt?Egyptian women experience sexual harassment every day, but feminist initiatives on social media are helping to...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsWe can’t put internet anonymity in the box marked ‘too hard to solve’Forthcoming internet legislation ignores anonymity, but this fudge benefits only the social media platforms
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Published in: Global ExtremesDoes censoring the radical right on social media work?Censorship leads to various responses on the radical right such as migration to other platforms, such as Parler.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightThe social media platform that welcomes QAnon with open armsFollowers of the bizarre conspiracy have turned to Gab.com as a safe space for all manner of right-wing online communities.
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Published in: Countering the Radical RightIn Germany, antisemitism on social media can be linked to offline violenceNot enough is being done in Germany to combat antisemitism on social media platforms.
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia‘Bots’ and bans: social media and regime propaganda in the Middle EastRegimes in the Middle East are constantly evolving their propaganda strategies to keep up with the new forms of...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNew year, new internet? Why it's time to rethink anonymity on social mediaWe can tackle online abuse and misinformation whilst protecting those with a genuine need for anonymity, suggests a...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesHow to fight online misinformation: beyond laws and algorithms, try vaccinationAn online game that puts the player in the shoes of a master manipulator strengthens people’s defences against fake...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK‘Online harms’ to our digital democracy are still being largely ignored5 ways the digital revolution demands an update to outdated electoral laws.
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsRevealed: The dark-money Brexit ads flooding social mediaFacebook has new transparency rules on political ads. But in the last week pro-Brexit groups have spent tens of...
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Published in: digitaLibertiesIs the internet to blame for the rise of authoritarianism?Three perspectives on whether the internet is having a damaging impact on democracy.
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Published in: Dark Money InvestigationsCambridge Analytica is what happens when you privatise military propagandaYou can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe crowds and the individual: why we should rethink how we debate complex issues on social mediaThis is not an attempt to relitigate this episode, but to critically reflect on the underlying dynamics of social...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSaudi women between online resistance and new physical realitiesWhat role did collective action, and social media play in Saudi Arabia’s decision to lift its ban on women driving?
