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Medium has become a central hub for information about COVID-19.
The China-based social media company also has policies censoring various forms of political speech, leaked documents reveal.
Google-savvy reputation consultants will cover up arrests, poor customer reviews, and other image-killing content for the right price.
When Facebook kicked the KKK, it re-formed on a Russia-based social network.
“What do you do when your parents go from posting Minions to posting hard-right memes about cement milkshakes?”
For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.
Researchers on Saturday published a database of what they said were racist, intolerant, or otherwise offensive Facebook posts by hundreds of current and former Philadelphia Police officers.
Posting clear rules made newcomer comments 8 percentage points more likely to follow the rules. Newcomer participation increased by 70% on average in a field experiment of 2,190 discussions in a 13m subscriber science community
This text is the written version of the talk given at the Knight Media Forum conference. It was presented on February 23, 2019
Black Facebook users complain they can't talk about racism without being censored for hate speech. Civil rights groups want Facebook to fix it.
Sri Lanka’s ban on social media forces a question nobody wants to ask: What if a global media network is impossible?
Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric.
Proposals to change recommendations and curb conspiracies were sacrificed for engagement, staff say.
"Stark reality" illustrated by 71-image gallery of vile, moderated comments.
There’s a story going around right now about a “reporter” who was following people shorting Tesla stock and allegedly approaching them for information. I won’t go into the w…
Targeted advertising has turned the platform into the best and worst place to buy stuff online.
Many parents that have lost a child to the flu or other vaccine-preventable cause find themselves the target of hateful attacks on social media and by phone -- all while they still grieve their loss.
Feminists of color have proven themselves capable of repelling troll attacks and fake news, be they from Americans, Neo-Nazis, Russians or a combo of all three. Why aren't they part of the solution?
The company said this week that YouTubers could lose monetization for not just the content of their videos, but what's posted in their comment sections as well.