Justices are weighing the arguments in two cases that have the potential of changing the way social media platforms operate.
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Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?
Lateral reading, self-nudging and a persistent refusal to feed the trolls are some of the ways one can better manage information.
Social media and publishing platform users have generated vast amounts of data. This data remains online long after people have stopped using the platforms, and can impact people’s lives.
With sexism embedded into today’s social media landscape, it’s easy to ignore that conversations about equality can benefit both men and women.
What’s true and what’s not? An expert in media literacy explains how to evaluate information.
Ghanaians aren’t using the new ‘smart’ street address system which was intended to improve service delivery.
Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
People are puzzled when they learn they share the same false memories with others. That’s partly because they assume that what they remember and forget ought to be based only on personal experience.
Ensuring that billions of dollars of federal funding for broadband service are well spent – and that consumers get what they pay for – comes down to knowing the actual speeds internet users experience.
Scuttlebutt is an entirely decentralised social network – and it shows we can learn to make the internet better.
Starlink has plans to connect phones, planes and even cruises to its space satellites. But there are hold-ups.
Parents and teenager have the best chance of cracking internet addiction when adults acknowledge they have a problem too.
Dissociation can be a healthy part of cognitive functioning, provided it doesn’t get in the way of your goals.
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Parental controls and surveillance have their place but internal safeguards like empathy, resilience and values serve children throughout their lives, whether online or offline.
Cookie notifications remind people that they are being tracked, which affects how people behave online.
For more than a decade, the Russian government has been putting teeth into its doctrine of ‘digital sovereignty’ by steadily increasing censorship of content and control over internet access.
Today’s media landscape is a far cry from the days of Watergate. A media scholar looks at the challenge the Jan. 6 committee faces in getting the hearings to break through in the age of TikTok.
Understanding the impact of the digital environment on children’s mental health requires a balanced consideration of not only the potential risks, but also the benefits of the online world.
Explorer came at the dawn of the public internet. For millions of people, it will always be their first experience of the World Wide Web.
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