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The chat platform has long been a media darling, but it’s getting so popular that people are starting to complain about it.
How not to do it.
There’s a fine line between a marketing campaign and a cover-up. The attempt by UC Davis to get its pepper spray incident off the top of Google searches is a case in point.
With all of the revelations of data snooping and privacy violations at the hands of government agencies and clandestine hacker groups, a new report suggests young people are having buyer’s remorse regarding the amount of social media accounts they’ve poured their life details into. In a report released this week (oddly) by USA Network, survey data shows that 55 percent of young people would eschew social media entirely “if they could start fresh.”
I‘m the Guardian contributor most targeted online. We have to stop the harassment so many women face
When you’re the target of a hateful attack—should you respond, ignore, or do something else entirely?
tchat.io is a tool to make it easy to participate in Twitter chats
The American university at the centre of a pepper spray row paid consultants more than $175,000 (£123,000) to bury online search results about the incident.
THIS DOESN'T WORK. Streisand FTW as always.
The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.
Is the world's biggest social network in trouble?
Ev Williams on feedback loops, giving a home to publishers, and finding critical mass
As part of a series into the rising global phenomenon of online harassment, the Guardian commissioned research into the 70m comments left on its site since 2006 and discovered that of the ten most abused writers eight are women, and the two men are black
Would it surprise you to learn that men and women have different standards when it comes to their online privacy settings?
They face harassment including death threats and racist abuse. Why are social media sites and police unable or unwilling to tackle the problem?
Facebook, Google and Twitter are working with women’s groups to challenge hate speech – but critics attack secrecy over scale of problem
Australian research finds that nearly half of all women report experiencing abuse or harassment online, and 76% of those under 30
David Matthews examines the approach of ResearchGate, Academia.edu and Mendeley to profit, user data and open access publishing